Michael Longley, poet, educator, and promoter of the arts, received the highest honor that one can receive from the Belfast City Council on March 23, 2015. The Freedom of the City title, much like the Key to the City awards given in American cities, is, according to Lord Mayor Nichola Mallon: “the city’s formal expression of the high regard, esteem, and affection in which our … [Read more...] about Michael Longley Given
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Michael Longley Given
Scientist John Bell Remembered
A ground-breaking exhibition, Science and Art, on the life and work of John Stewart Bell opened at the Naughton Gallery in Queen’s University Belfast on November 4. The exhibition was one of many events celebrating the Northern Irish physicist who 50 years ago became the originator of Bell’s Theorem, which resolved a decades-old dispute involving Albert Einstein and showed that … [Read more...] about Scientist John Bell Remembered
Belfast Rocked By Union Jack Protests
Loyalist protesters in Belfast have been marching against the City Council’s decision that the United Kingdom’s flag, the Union Jack, will no longer be flown above City Hall year-round. The decision, reached by a council vote on December 3, came from a compromise motion proposed by the centrist Alliance Party that the Union Jack would be flown on 17 designated days – including … [Read more...] about Belfast Rocked By Union Jack Protests
Hillary Clinton Visits Ireland and Northern Ireland
Clinton included the Emerald Isle in her final visits as Secretary of State. As part of one of her last international trips as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton spent two days in Ireland at the beginning of December. Following visits to Prague and Brussels, Clinton landed in Dublin on December 6. While in the Irish capital, she participated in the ministerial meeting of the … [Read more...] about Hillary Clinton Visits Ireland and Northern Ireland
Titanic Staircase Makes a Grand Entrance
As construction of the impressive and modern Titanic Belfast building speeds ahead, the past mingled nicely with the future on November 12 when a nearly exact replica of the grand staircase that sank with the doomed ocean liner was installed in the building’s Titanic Suite, which is set to become a 1,000-seat banqueting hall. The original grand staircase, built with the rest … [Read more...] about Titanic Staircase Makes a Grand Entrance