My parents were Belfast Catholics.

I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

I love going home to Belfast on weekend breaks from training.

There was a great blues scene in Belfast during the late '60s.

I have so many happy memories of Belfast and the shows I played there.

When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.

I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!

I've lived in Liverpool, London, Belfast, Germany, Coventry, Dorset, and Cyprus.

My father was from Belfast; my mother was from Crossmolina. I grew up in Dublin.

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.

Alex Higgins was my hero, so to play in Belfast, at the superb Waterfront Hall, is very special to me.

I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well.

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

From Tiger's Bay in Belfast to the MGM in Vegas... it's been some ride so far. And the best is still to come.

I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.

I like to go out for dinner in Belfast with my friends, I like to work on the house. I like working on music.

There are certainly many British plays which go down far better with Dublin audiences than they would in Belfast.

The really big challenge is delivering the social justice agenda in the Belfast Agreement, which hasn't been delivered.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast.

We have to show the E.U. and show Ireland that our commitment to the Belfast Good Friday agreement is absolutely unconditional.

The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.

I get spotted quite a bit walking about the streets in Belfast and it's okay, I don't mind it, they come up and shake your hand.

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That's what brought the game alive.

The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

I had a wonderful, an incredible dialect coach, Brendan Gunn, from Belfast, who has worked with Brad Pitt and Daniel Day Lewis, and me.

There was nothing special about me; there are boxers in Belfast who are more skilled but I had a bit between my teeth that drives me on.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road closer to the city centre, you might never heard of me.

Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.

My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.

When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast.

If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the people who stayed. Always worrying about the safety of their children.

I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.

We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

If Israel does not find the way to disengage from the Palestinians, its future might resemble the experience of Belfast or Bosnia - two communities bleeding each other to death for generations.

I mean Georgia, and also Belfast, aren't the most stable places, politically, in the world. But the thing is, in both places, the people were just so kind and so warm and in Belfast so welcoming.

On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located.

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast. It was very bittersweet when we said goodbye to our relatives, and I remember crying my eyes out at the airport.

My parents are both from Belfast. I have an Irish passport and a British passport, and I go back every summer and every Christmas, and sometimes I pop over during the year to say hi, and, of course, celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.

I started to watch 'Play for Today' and plays like 'Cathy Come Home,' and Kenneth Branagh's 'Billy' trilogy in the 1980s, which took us into the world of the Belfast family. As a kid in Luton, how was I ever going to know that world otherwise?

I love Belfast, because of the way that people here love their snooker. And I won my first professional tournament here in 1981. It was at the King's Hall and I beat Doug Mountjoy in the final. That victory will always be pretty special for me.

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