Northern Ireland

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While the Irish are amiable people, there are a few faux pas you should avoid to keep your visit pleasant. — In 2019, I took a group of students to Ireland, Scotland, and England. It was a fantastic trip where we saw some beautiful places, met some great people, and ate some excellent food (haggis tastes much better than it looks!). …

Today, King Charles III will be crowned in Westminster Abbey, in a ceremony that has changed shockingly little in the past thousand or more years. For most people, both in Britain and around the world, the most impressive thing about it is how archaic the whole affair is. With the…

Calming Conflict: Northern Ireland Metaphor and Migration — Despite the long and generous list of acknowledgements, only one person can honestly claim to have read all 846 pages of ‘Calming Conflict’ — the author and veteran ‘Conflict Comprehendist’, (or, more-accurately, Conflict Metaphor Developer) Brian Lambkin. This is not a book that one can casually ‘dip into’: its forensic…

Here’s an Article I wrote for Evangelical Alliance and some additional thoughts on this subject. Click the link below for the original story. Cost of living crisis: we need to be in this together On one occasion I was stood in a carpark outside our foodbank whilst a woman broke down right in front of me. It was the…www.eauk.org As the cost of living crisis continues to bite, many more people previous immune to the stresses of poverty find themselves in an unfamiliar place of struggling…

Both sides have to realise they need peace — Richard Haass is a professional peacenik. In the sense, that he’s an American diplomat and is president of the influential think tank, Council on Foreign Relations. (Wisecracks about American diplomats dealing in war, not peace, are exactly that — wisecracks.) Anyway, Mr Haass’s recent fulminations on the Good Friday Agreement…

Three countries sent more immigrants to America than any other, viz: Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Germany. This information is of value to genealogists in searching for the origin of their ancestors. You have to know that a large portion of the Irish settled in County Antrim. So, what port city…

The symbol of the Northern Irish province has an interesting history. — The Red Hand of Ulster is the symbol of the province of Ulster in Northern Ireland. It is also known as the Ui Neill and is the heraldic symbol of the O’Neil family. Today it can be found on many banners in Ulster. The origin of the red hand has…

It was sitting at my front door when I arrived home on Easter Monday. It must have been left there at some point over the weekend, a special delivery package that I hadn’t signed for. I had escaped the city on Good Friday, not because it was sticky and hot…