Bernadette Devlin Quotes About Ireland

• ... 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.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Religion, Bitterness, Christianity

• 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!

  Bernadette Devlin

  Jesus, Hate, Names

• It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Should Have, Racism, Prejudice

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

  Bernadette Devlin

  Song, Singers, Ireland

• 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 been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Mother, Equality, Church

• 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 countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Country, Technology, Europe

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