- Countryside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Belfast Quotes
On a city of warmth and history.
These quotes describe Belfast through personal memory, from a warm welcome despite political instability to childhood memories of football at Windsor Park.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Criminal Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.
- Big Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The really big challenge is delivering the social justice agenda in the Belfast Agreement, which hasn't been delivered.
- Odds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember vividly as a 15-year-old, in 1964, seeing Derry play Glentoran in the Irish Cup Final at Windsor Park in Belfast. Glentoran were one of the two big Belfast teams, along with Linfield. Any rural team playing them was up against the odds.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to show the E.U. and show Ireland that our commitment to the Belfast Good Friday agreement is absolutely unconditional.
- Flag
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020