Among The Best Traitors Ireland Has Ever

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.

... 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.

It Wasn't Long Before People Discovered The Final Horrors Of Letting An Urchin Into Parliament.

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 The More Effective Job I Should Be Doing At The Bottom.

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.