Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest ….

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament..

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope an….

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs..

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has be….

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win..

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness..

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy..

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all..

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it….

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb….

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhe….

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting..

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it..

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done..

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go ….

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!.

Free love is too expensive..

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary..