Jamie Dornan Quotes

But if I ever fight in Northern Ireland again, I want it to be at Windsor Park.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.

A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.

I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods.

Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

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.

The gun is not out of Irish politics.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

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

The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional problems as well as the military problems that have been unaddressed for centuries.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I am concerned that there's a cavalier attitude to the Irish Peace Process. What poor memories some have; I remember only too well the bag searches, the bomb scares and deaths. As they say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

We used to spend a lot of time as kids in Northern Ireland, on the border and in southern Ireland as well.

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

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

Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army.

For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

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