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TURNING BACK THE CLOCK / THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Turning Back The Clock - 14 February 2008
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TURNING BACK THE CLOCK / THROUGH THE ARCHIVES. Archive features from both the Belfast News Letter (THROUGH THE ARCHIVES) and the Co Down Spectator (TURNING BACK THE CLOCK). Friday, February 15, 2008. Turning Back The Clock - 14 February 2008. For almost four centuries without a break, a ferry service has been provided between Portaferry and Strangford. The townland of Ferryquarter, which takes in part of Strangford, was granted by James I in 1612 to one Peter Tumolton. Her maiden trip was a romantic one ...
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TURNING BACK THE CLOCK / THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Through The Archives - 24 February 2008
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TURNING BACK THE CLOCK / THROUGH THE ARCHIVES. Archive features from both the Belfast News Letter (THROUGH THE ARCHIVES) and the Co Down Spectator (TURNING BACK THE CLOCK). Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Through The Archives - 24 February 2008. BROOKEBOROUGH ADDRESSES ISSUE OF RISING UNEMPLOYMENT. News Letter – 28 February, 1958. In February 1958 unemployment statistics for Northern Ireland stood close to 50,000 people out of work and it was expected that this would “go up beyond that figure” al...The Prime...
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TURNING BACK THE CLOCK / THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Turning Back The Clock - 28 February 2008
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TURNING BACK THE CLOCK / THROUGH THE ARCHIVES. Archive features from both the Belfast News Letter (THROUGH THE ARCHIVES) and the Co Down Spectator (TURNING BACK THE CLOCK). Monday, March 3, 2008. Turning Back The Clock - 28 February 2008. BANGOR AND THE ULSTER PRISONERS OF WAR. A grand concert which had been kindly organised by Madame Daisy Creeny was this week in 1917 held in the Dufferin Hall in aid of “sending necessaries to Ulster prisoners of war”, reported the Spectator. He said: “Truly, the ...
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TURNING BACK THE CLOCK / THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Turning Back The Clock - 21 February 2008
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TURNING BACK THE CLOCK / THROUGH THE ARCHIVES. Archive features from both the Belfast News Letter (THROUGH THE ARCHIVES) and the Co Down Spectator (TURNING BACK THE CLOCK). Saturday, February 23, 2008. Turning Back The Clock - 21 February 2008. Indeed, the report continued, it would be recalled that at the inauguration of the Society in 1918 that Mr Thomas McMullan, MP, had voiced the feeling that “the establishment of an operatic society in Bangor would be welcomed” and would be of great ben...The Socie...
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Decade of Centenaries | Ulster 1885 - 1925 | Links
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Decade of Centenaries Ulster 1885 - 1925. Home Rule Crisis 1912-14. NMNI Decade of Centenaries collection that features a wide range of printed political material, postcards and posters, badges, letters and photographs and firearms. Irish Home Rule: An imagined future. BBC History article on Home Rule. Houses of Parliament article about Home Rule. Origins of Home Rule. Article from University College Cork Multitext Project in Irish History: Movements for Political and Social Reform 1870-1914. Article fro...
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The Great Wee Azoo: Bad Art - Kieran Doherty Wall
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Saturday, July 21, 2007. Bad Art - Kieran Doherty Wall. Oh, my eyes! Just look at this thing I discovered on a gable wall in West Belfast. It's not exactly a mural but a painting on boards, which have been joined together and framed. The subject of this art atrocity is republican hunger striker, Kieran Doherty, who died in 1981 after 73 days without food. I've no idea who the 'artist' of this piece is, but he or she should be stopped from inflicting such art crimes on the general public. Lou Reed's Berli...
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The Great Wee Azoo: Moron Moments - Corn Market Upgrade
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008. Moron Moments - Corn Market Upgrade. The modernisation work on Belfast city centre's tired pavements is well underway. In the main, the results are impressive. Yet, I'm surprised that no one thought to relocate the electricity box that stood beside the old bandstand in Corn Market. Now that the bandstand is gone, the electricity box stands alone and incongrous in the middle of Corn Market, at the approach to the new Victoria Centre. The Great Wee Azoo. The Great Wee Azoo.
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The Great Wee Azoo: Enormous Turnip Awards - Chronicles of Long Kesh
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Saturday, January 31, 2009. Enormous Turnip Awards - Chronicles of Long Kesh. Martin Lynch's Chronicles of Long Kesh,. Which finishes its debut run at Belfast's Waterfront Hall this evening, should perhaps have been subtitled Carry On Up The Kesh,. Such was its jokey tone and lack of any intellectual or political depth. I'd never seen a Lynch play before, so I had nothing to measure it against, although it was hard not to be reminded of Steve McQueen's 2008 film, Hunger. As we got a singsong and a roll-c...
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The Great Wee Azoo: Advertising Standards Authority vs Free Presbyterian Church
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Saturday, November 22, 2008. Advertising Standards Authority vs Free Presbyterian Church. The Advertising Standards Authority has this week ruled that The Belfast News Letter was in breach of The Committee of Advertising Practice Code Clause 5.1. In publishing a full-page advertisement from Sandown Free Presbyterian Church. Seven people complained to the ASA, who initially recommended that the complaints should not be upheld, although noted that a final decision would be taken by its Council. Commenting ...