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From tartans to Guinness: Identity in Northern Ireland and beyond

Allan LEONARD (Mr Ulster) on April 24, 2026, 4:59 pm

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Belfast Exposed photography gallery on Donegall Street hosted “Why Is Identity So Difficult?”, a public lecture and discussion delivered by Professor Dominic Bryan of Queen’s University Belfast. The event was organised by the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression (OICE) and formed part of the gallery’s BIEN programme, which accompanies three concurrent exhibitions exploring identity in its many dimensions: work on the Irish language tradition; the material decay of Ulster Scots buildings; and the story of the travelling community, refugees, asylum seekers, and new arrivals. In …

Images of Incoming: exclusion and belonging in Northern Ireland

Allan LEONARD (Mr Ulster) on March 10, 2023, 10:11 am

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To coincide with International Women’s Day, the Linen Hall Library hosted an event showcasing a Photovoice project that involved over 70 women from Northern Ireland and Canada, expressing their sense of inclusion and exclusion in their new countries. Dr Federica Ferrieri, the project coordinator, presented a selection of their images and expanded on their captions with themes and subthemes revealed through the work. Ferrieri described the background and framework of the project, which was a partnership between Queen’s University Belfast’s …

Trading Partners Wanted: Looking at Canada

Neale Richmond on May 3, 2017, 2:39 pm

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As it stands, Ireland’s largest trading partner is the United Kingdom. This has been the case since Independence although the balance has shifted greatly since Ireland entered the EEC in 1973 with the UK no longer wholly dominant although our reliance for trade with the UK continues in certain sectors such as beef, timber, pork and much more. As Ireland’s reliance on the UK as a trading partner has diminished, it has been able to look to a wider market …

Brexit will strengthen the Union

Kilsally on July 20, 2016, 8:00 am

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Brexit will strengthen the Union, not weaken it. The vast majority of Scottish & Ulster trade is far and away with the rest of the UK. Scottish trade with the EU is down 20% in the last year with the USA being Scotland’s single biggest export country. The Republic of Ireland accounts for only just over 4% of Northern Ireland sales (which is more than Northern Ireland sales to the rest of the EU put together) A report from Barclays …

Trudeaumania mark two as Liberals sweep to power

David McCann on October 20, 2015, 11:31 am

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Nearly a decade of Tory rule in Canada has come to an end as the Liberals under Justin Trudeau swept to power. This will be his second time living in 24 Sussex Drive as he grew up there when his father, Pierre was Prime Minister during the 1970s and early 80s. The trend began in Atlantic Canada and just kept rolling into Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. The coalition of suburban Ontario and the West that sustained the Conservatives in …

Could Stephen Harper’s reign as Canadian PM be coming to an end?

David McCann on October 18, 2015, 7:16 pm

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Tomorrow Canadians will be going to the polls to vote in their 42nd federal election. At more than two months in length it is the longest in Canadian history. Whilst the long campaign was supposed to be to the benefit of the better organised and funded Conservatives, it now appears that the Liberals under Justin Trudeau have been the real beneficiaries as they have over the past month been steadily gaining in the polls and enter tomorrow ahead by roughly …

Canada votes 2015

David McCann on August 2, 2015, 3:26 pm

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The Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper has taken the plunge today and called a long 78 day election campaign with a vote on October 19th. The latest polls show a real three way between the with NDP on 31%, Tories on 30%, Liberals on 29%. However this is a long campaign and it’s worth remember that during the 2006 campaign, the Liberals led going into it and lost the election. Also remember the NDP surge in 2011 that came on …

Scotland, Canada, #Indyref and all that jazz……

David McCann on September 13, 2014, 8:49 pm

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“Vive le Scotland Libre!” If I could twist a phrase from the former French President, Charles de Gaulle about the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence this according to the polls is apparently what nearly half of the Scottish people will be chanting on the 18th September. It is hard to believe that just two months ago the No side enjoyed a 22% lead in the majority of the opinion polls. With a media largely hostile to their cause, the resources …

Toronto’s Tory bull Mayor is stripped of 60% of his budget…

Mick Fealty on November 19, 2013, 7:28 am

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Well, if you thought it was impossible to get rid of our politicians, Canada trumps it. Toronto’s city council decided their mayor Rob Ford could be got rid of so the council is taking a big chunk of his mayoral budget away from him… Ford’s folksy mix of tea party conservatism makes him very popular with his base, though his eccentric behaviour comprises admission that he smoked crack cocaine, and last night taking a lunge at the press gallery (knocking …

The long march in Quebec.

Dewi on September 8, 2012, 4:13 pm

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The PQ are back in power. A terribly tragic victory rally shadowed the victory. Maybe another decade before the next vote but: Another generation are taking up the fight. DewiWelsh Nationalist. Rugby Fan. Know a bit about History and Railways…