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The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.
I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.
You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can't take the Irishness out of the man.
My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.
There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar.
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.
I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.
It's Northern Ireland, it's Ireland, it's Scotland, it's Wales, there's Scousers, Londoners, all behind me.
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
We would only need a bespoke solution for Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the Single Market.
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
Any talk of no deal is completely unacceptable. No deal means we can't reach any agreement about the border in Ireland and that is not a place we want to be.
Next to President of the United States, Ambassador to Ireland is surely one of the best jobs an Irish American can hold.
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.
We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills.
I used to make fun of people who talked about going home and all that. I hadn't really thought about it at all, but I just teared up when I saw Ireland. I felt a kinship.
There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.
I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.
Different parts of Ireland have different alliances, because you have little pockets where counties are good at hurling, and different counties are good at football.
I grew up in rural Ireland; we only had a few TV channels and had never even heard of sketch shows, but it was completely natural for me to tell jokes and stories.
I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland.
The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland.
In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.
One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.
I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.
It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.
St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
I've seen massive changes in Ireland in my lifetime.
Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.
Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.
It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.
We need to work together towards a mutually beneficial solution for Ireland, the U.K., and for Europe.
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
The landscape in Ireland is just - I've never been in such a beautiful place with the lakes and ocean and everything.
As you can hear, I am English - I am from England - and it was really good playing for Ireland.
I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.
Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe.
I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.
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.
Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.
I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.
I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.