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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.

— Seamus Heaney

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

— Fionnula Flanagan

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

— Anne McCaffrey

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

— Ken Stott

When people are faced with a choice between the Northern Ireland they have got and the perfect Northern Ireland, they complain. But in the real world that isn't the choice.

— John Reid

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

— Enya

You are not speaking for yourself, but for Ireland.

— Michael D. Higgins

O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are coming upon you! If you were to judge as I do, you would not easily put your neck under a foreign yoke.

— William Wallace

It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.

— James Nesbitt

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

— Charles Stewart Parnell

✗Opposing Perspectives

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.

— Bill Forsyth