If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the people who stayed. Always worrying about the safety of their children.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic.
I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.
The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.
I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.
When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.
Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?
I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.
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.
There's a lot I've missed about living in Ireland. You miss family, particularly when you've got kids.
The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.