Belfast is one of the main attractions of Northern Ireland. There is so much to see that we created self-guided tours to see the highlights of Belfast in two days. #Belfast #NorthernIreland https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Northern-Ireland/Day15/

At least eight #Mediterranean #gulls (and a few #Sandwich #terns) among the #BlackHeadedGulls on the nesting raft at @RSPB #Belfast #WindowOnWildlife this morning.

The Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge is an instagrammable place where you cross a rope bridge over dangerous terrain and hope the wind will not blow you off. Well, it is not that dangerous...really. #NorthernIreland https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Northern-Ireland/Day14/#5i144

Trading card game Northern Ireland with popular local figures sounds a bit more conflict oriented.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/27/its-done-wonders-trading-card-game-featuring-middle-aged-men-revives-japanese-town

Giant's Causeway is one of Northern Ireland's biggest attractions with its 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, from a volcanic fissure eruption 50-60 mio years ago. Have you been there? #GiantsCauseway #NorthernIreland https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Northern-Ireland/Day14/#5i141

The Belfast lockout took place in Belfast from 26 April to 28 August 1907. The strike was called by Liverpool-born trade union leader James Larkin who had successfully organised the dock workers to join the National Union of Dock Labourers. The dockers, both Protestant and Catholic, had gone on strike after their demand for union recognition was refused.

Open Sat from 11 am to 5.30pm

ArtisAnn Gallery, 70 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast, BT5 5AE
Wed – Sat: 11am to 5.30pm

www.artisann.org

Modern Art for everyone at ArtisAnn

Even better – You Can Spread the Cost over 10 Months with Own Art
Own Art can be arranged via the website, in a few minutes, from the comfort of your own home.

#art #artist #artgallery #gallery
#belfast #northernireland #ireland
#painting #landscape #portrait

Derry is the only town with a completely intact city wall in Ireland and Northern Ireland. We provide a self-guided tour of Derry and a murals tour in Bogside that tells the story of The Troubles . #Derry #NorthernIreland https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Northern-Ireland/Day13/#5i133

“Unsurprisingly, this brash ignorance of an entire (sub-)domain of art triggered a cauldron of boiling responses from various critics…” – Laurence Counihan in his recent Circa text, ‘Introduction to «an_archaeology_of_the_future»‘

http://cmag.cc/20691

"The Carrick-a-rede rope hotel is long gone and now only a bridge remains"

*very niche Northern Ireland reference*

The #UK was once part of a single market covering #Europe. After #Brexit, the UK single market is smaller than the UK- you need to say what's in a parcel sent from Great Britain to #NorthernIreland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly3enyz4z0o

Kneecap say ‘statements aren’t aggressive’ after denouncing Israel at Coachella https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/24/kneecap-say-statements-arent-aggressive-after-denouncing-israel-at-coachella #NorthernIreland #Israel-Gazawar #Coachella #Festivals #Culture #Kneecap #Ireland #USnews #Music

[07:00] Tánaiste, Benn to chair Co Down inter-government meeting

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris and Northern Secretary Hilary Benn will co-chair a meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference in Co Down later, the first time it has been held in Northern Ireland in almost two decades.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0424/1509151-tanaiste-benn-to-chair-co-down-inter-government-meeting/

#Tánaiste #SimonHarris #Northern #HilaryBenn #theBritish_IrishIntergovernmentalConferenceinCo #first #NorthernIreland #almosttwodecades

First #CommonLizard of the year at #Slievenacloy #naturereserve this morning

Male #ReedBunting at #Slievenacloy #naturereserve.

#Kneecap Responds to #Coachella Criticism of Pro-#Palestine Messages

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kneecap-responds-coachella-message-palestine-1235322593/

Modern Art for Everyone at the ArtisAnn Gallery in Belfast

www.artisann.org

ArtisAnn Gallery, 70 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast, BT5 5AE
Wed – Sat: 11am to 5.30pm

Even better – You Can Spread the Cost over 10 Months with Own Art
Own Art can be arranged via the website, in a few minutes, from the comfort of your own home.

#art #artist #artgallery #gallery
#belfast #northernireland #ireland
#painting #landscape #portrait

Daniel Tuomey: Stuck, a decomposition
Ormston House
9-10 Patrick Street Limerick City

closing Saturday 26 April

#ArtIreland #Dnote #MastoDaoine #Art #Ireland #NorthernIreland
Fuller information here: https://dnote.website?p=803440

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