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When writing about Edinburgh, I place my characters in the parts of the city that I myself have lived in, or else know well, those being the Southside, Marchmont in particular, where I lived as a student, and the New Town/Stockbridge area where I live now and have done for the past 30 years.
My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.
But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.
Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened.
Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.
There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast.
I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland.
My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.
Oh, you eat cats in Cork now, do you?
Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people
That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!
I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.
The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.
I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
Goldsboro, North Carolina.
I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.
Welcome to Glasgow - the city where we punch people who are on fire.
I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.
coming to Hollyhill to visit my
Ireland's always going to be my home, but so much is filmed in L.A., so you have to spend time out here.
My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.
London, how could one ever be tired of it?
I don't live in London - I'm based in Norfolk and have a place in Scotland.
I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.
When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
London, London, London town,
You can toughen up or get thrown around.
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.
The thing about Manchester is ... it all comes from here
All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.
It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.
Brighton I-don't-know-your-middle-name Waterford, are you asking me to strip?
I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.
London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted."
I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.
I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.
I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two. Bohane is a little kingdom. When I began writing it, I realised that it was in the future and that it was a place that didn't care about anything that happened outside it.
Living in Manchester was like living on the moon ... wherever that might be
When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries.
New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.
I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.
Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.
We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.
Ireland?" he said. "I'm from Ireland! Why do you think I came here?" he said. "Nothing good in Ireland." He frowned. "Except the ale. The ale is fine.
When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?
CLEARVIEW, QUEENS
Clare. Give me a reason to stay.
the Isle of Wight, with occasional visits to
Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.
You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.
I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.
London, thou art the flower of cities all!
and Derry (give me a minute, give me a minute), but there's not much to compare with the British Museum,
Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.
Edinburgh House. He had heard that in its industrial heyday, Corby had had
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'
I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
Seattle, Washington.
My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.
I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
Yorkshire is so much part of me.
London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration,
I love London and British women.
here you are in Bath, andBath-- Jane Austen
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.
Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.Pub-- Don Johnson
We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in.
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is with me! Your prayers. I sonht zo! Madammangut!
NEIL GAIMAN near Kinsale, County Cork 15 January 2001
For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.
Edinburgh is alive with words.
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.
When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.
Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.
I love coming back to Edinburgh. It's nice to spend real time here.
He was from Glasgow. Everything past "good morning" was a blur.
The nearest inhabited village is about seven of your English miles to the left.
I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write.
In no particular order: baked goods, Colin Farrell's eyebrows, and the thighs of rugby players everywhere. And to the city of Edinburgh, where a love story was born.
Glasgow is an incredibly creative and culturally vibrant place.
Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.
Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?
For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Gregg's bakers, though, I'll say that. The opening of the 1977 'Star Wars' movie was possibly the only time I've seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.
ah've been on t'dole all mi life in fucking Leeds!
I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.
Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.