Comments on: Belfast

By: George

George — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:42:35 +0000

A good and fair reflection of post-troubles Belfast.

As you say the problem still lingers and if you scratch the surface in the North or the South it’s all still there waiting to erupt again in another 10, 20, … 100 years

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:58:39 +0000

Nice piece. If you wish, you can leave a link on the http://www.NIclick.com/forums website for others to read.

Hope you enjoyed Belfast!

By: MP

MP — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:35:54 +0000

Beautifully written. A pleasure to read.

By: Charmaine

Charmaine — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:06:48 +0000

Thoroughly enjoying all your articles – takes me back to my youth and travelling days. Travelling certainly is a great education! Its wonderful to be able to share it with you.

By: Iain

Iain — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:45:58 +0000

Hi Chris,

Thanks. We appreciate well intended criticism and we’re glad you like our “sense of style”.

I’m interested in examples of where our potted histories are innacurate. Bulmers, or the Bulmers we are referring to, is made in Clonmel, Tipperary. More on that here.

Travel writing is full of short accounts of local history. It helps readers ease into a place, and into the presumably informed mind of the writer. But history is difficult to summarise, especially when about an issue as contentious as the Irish “Troubles”.

By: Chris Hughes

Chris Hughes — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:42:59 +0000

The well informed travelogue is indeed a fine thing. And indeed the kind of accounts given here are a useful way of keeping friends and family at home abreast of one’s progression around the planet. But this account is so full of little inaccuracies (eg. Bulmer’s Cider comes from Herefordshire, not from Ireland), and rehearsals of half understood or half remembered histories, that its impact and value, if indeed it is ever intended for a wider public, is sorely diminished. Travel, by all means; look, enquire; but the sorts of potted renderings of Scottish and Irish history which have been featured here in previous postings serve no-one well. That said, it is all written with a great sense of style, and I much liked the witty interpretation of Wilde in Dublin.