Meanings of dreary steeples in English

Or will it be the tribal dreary steeples as usual?

It was Winston Churchill who once spoke of the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

He is the political manifestation of the " dreary steeples".

Why, Prime Minister, those are the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone emerging once again from the ancestral mists.

In the past "the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone" symbolised the integrity of the Northern quarrel.

New Labour has at least superficially transformed the British political scene, but Northern Ireland still clings to the dreary steeples of sectarian spite.

Churchill's " dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone" continue to loom over the Northern Ireland political landscape despite the cataclysm in the rest of the world.