Quotes of: Northern-ireland Keyword

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

Seamus Heaney

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

Seamus Heaney

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Liam Neeson

Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?

James Nesbitt

It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.

James Nesbitt

A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.

Seamus Heaney

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

Seamus Heaney

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

Peter Mandelson

People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.

Frank Carson

The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.

James Nesbitt

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

Barry McGuigan

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

James Nesbitt

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

Colum McCann

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for No...

Queen Elizabeth II

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

Jessie Ware

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

Liam Neeson

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

Jamie Dornan

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

Paul Muldoon

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.

George J. Mitchell

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.

James Nesbitt

When people are faced with a choice between the Northern Ireland they have got and the perfect Northern Ireland, they complain. But in the real world that isn't the choice.

John Reid