I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.
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The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.
We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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.
My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
I think I'm one of the people who brought about peace in Ireland.