I am very proud I was part of the IRA in Derry and involved in repelling the designs of the British state forces against people who were being treated as second- and third-class citizens.
I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.
Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.
On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.
There will be no hard border from Dundalk to Derry in the context of it being a European border, and by that I mean customs posts every mile along the road.
I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
Of course, the whole mythology of the world of 'It' is very attractive to me.
A lot of people of my Ulster Protestant background would have been very suspicious of the notion of a film about Bloody Sunday. Our fear would have been that it would be terribly anti-Britain and anti-soldiers: a piece of nationalist propaganda.
We all float down here!
I was born and raised in Derry and I can't change the way I talk.
I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.