In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.
Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?
I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.
Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday I'll end up living there. When I've established myself in America and I don't need to live near the action, so to speak, and if you're good, the work will come to you. I feel very Irish; maybe that's why I've been so lucky with my career.
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.
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 grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
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