Ulster Quotes

• As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

  David Trimble

  Achievement, Proud, Reason

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• American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

  John Amery

  Numbers, Troops, Arriving

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

  James Connolly

  Betrayal, Mean, Labour Movement

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.275, Pluto Press

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• The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come across, in the 1690s. And they were victims of famine. Over that decade, 30000-50000 people were fleeing from that disaster. In terms of per capita loss, it was of the same order of magnitude as the Irish famine (of the 19th century).

  Tom Devine

  Loss, Order, History

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• An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

  C. S. Lewis

  Clothes, Weekdays, May

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.

  Thomas Cahill

  Kings, Husband, Father

  Thomas Cahill (2011). “How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right

  Lord Randolph Churchill

  Fighting, Home Rule

  1886 Public letter, 7 May.

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• Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Country, Technology, Europe

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• I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.

  Ian Paisley

  Government, Ira, Graves

  1997 Speech at the annual conference of the Democratic Unionist Party. InThe IrishTimes,'ThisWeekThey Said', 6 Dec.

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• I'm sure there was an educational angle to the trips (I think one was to the Ulster Museum) but it was the fun and banter I had with my friends I remember the most.

  Rory McIlroy

  Fun, Educational, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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