->'''Cause all our kind are good for is shovelling shit and making bombs, isn't that right? D'you know something, big lad? [[DrivenToVillainy I'm sick of shovelling shit]].''
-->-- '''Patrick O'Brien''', ''[[{{Series/LifeOnMars2006}} Life on Mars]]''

->''There's a book called ''Literature/PatriotGames'' by Creator/TomClancy and in it America is pitted against the IRA. Not the ''real'' IRA, of course, that'd be too complicated. Not the Pretend IRA, not the Breakway IRA, not the Continuity IRA, no, it's the Totally Mad Bonkers Only-Two-Of-Them-Left-And-Neither-Of-Them-Knows-Who-The-Other-One-Is IRA.''
-->-- '''Music/BillBailey'''

->''Northern Ireland is made up of a majority of Protestants who like to kill Catholics, a large minority of Catholics who like to kill Protestants, and a significant number of individuals who like to kill people regardless of their religious affiliation.''
-->-- '''''Website/TheOnion''''', "Atlas of the World"

->''The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives, and though each had ardent advocates, most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre – horrid and inexorcisable.''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill'''

->''This period of was known as 'The Troubles,' while the rest of Northern Ireland's history is known as '1954.'''
-->-- '''''Website/TheOnion''''', "Our Dumb World"

-> ''You're just another coffin on its way down the Emerald Aisle''
-> ''When your children's stony glances mourn your death in a terrorist's smile''
-> ''The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves''
-> ''Alley sings with shrapnel detonates a temporary hell''
-> ''Forgotten sons...''
-> ''From the dole queue to the regiment, a profession in a flash''
-> ''But remember Monday signings when from door to door you dash''
-> ''On the news a nation mourns you, Unknown Soldier, count the cost''
-> ''For a second you'll be famous, but labelled posthumous...''
-->-- '''Music/{{Marillion}}''', "Forgotten Sons"

-> ''Two kinds of Irish people? What are they fighting over — who gets to sleep in the bathtub?''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

-> ''432: Saint Patrick introduces Christianity to Ireland, thereby giving the natives something interesting to fight about for the rest of their recorded history.''
-->-- ''History Gone {{Magazine/MAD}}''

->'''Yorkie Mitchell:''' Let's see... you've got the Republicans, who want to be Irish, and the Loyalists, who want to stay British. There's various kinds of each brand of tosser, so you'd better pin your ears back.\\
'''Yorkie Mitchell:''' Most obviously, there's the Irish Republican Army- the Provisionals, who say they're for peace, and the Continuity and Real splinter groups, who don't. On the other side there's the Ulster Volunteer Force, and smaller offshoots like the Ulster Freedom Fighters. They're real charmers, supposed to be linked to British racist outfits like the National Front.\\
'''Yorkie Mitchell:''' The I.R.A. tend to think a little bit bigger. They're mates with Colonel Gadaffi and so on, possibly even Al Qaeda.\\
'''Yorkie Mitchell:''' Now, the longer the shooting went on- at us, at each other, among themselves- the more they realized they needed financing to keep things going. That doesn't just mean running coke with the Colombians, it means drugs, whores, porn and loan-sharking in Belfast itself. And that's where we are at the minute.\\
'''Yorkie Mitchell:''' Since the ceasefire, what was supposed to be a political conflict has degenerated into a war over turf. Same sides, same infighting, same little Hitlers carving out territory...\\
'''Yorkie Mitchell:''' Except that in some parts of the city, things are so vicious that even these animals are starting to lose their grip. There's a purer breed on the way up. Kids who don't give a toss for politics. Who've never known the place any other way. Who see the ''hole'' their forefathers dug for them- and ''like'' it.\\
'''Frank Castle:''' So it's a warzone?\\
'''Yorkie Mitchell:''' No, no, most of it's perfectly pleasant. But you'll hardly be visiting those parts, will you?
-->-- Creator/GarthEnnis [[AuthorTract on]] Belfast, ''ComicBook/ThePunisher''

->'''Ted:''' The four countries in England are: Wales. England again somehow. Scotland, and... Ireland?\\
'''Coach Beard:''' That's a whole other conversation.
-->-- ''Series/TedLasso''

->''It's the same old theme since 1916\\
In your head, in your head, they're still fighting\\
With their tanks, and their bombs, and their bombs, and their guns\\
In your head, in your head, they are dyin'''
-->-- '''Music/TheCranberries''', "Zombie"
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