Northern Ireland
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- Tungsten
Any tips on what to see or do? Specifically unusual or quirky things that will make good photo ops.
Renting a car for a week and doing the rounds.
- Llyod-1
blow something up and have 15 kids
- 3point141590
Like Llyod said
- erikjonsson0
backalleys and deserted factories
- rafalski0
There are some billboards down South here promoting NI:
"See the birthplace of Titanic"
http://www.discovernorthernirela…Dubliners go there to IKEA, as there isn't a single one in the South.
I've never been to, but I presume Giant's Causeway, a geometric geological formation is worth seeing
http://www.northantrim.com/giant…
http://www.giantscausewaycentre.…
- 5timuli0
Taxi tour of Shankill/Falls Road. Trust me, just do it™
- LOLJnr_Madison
- he's not joking.toe_knee
- I'm sure, just doesn't appeal to me.Jnr_Madison
- 5timuli0
- My grandad was a Grand Black Hand in the Orange Lodge.. in case you were wondering. I don't really care about this shit though...5timuli
- though...5timuli
- (Mix of UVF/IRA murals). Probably owrth noting if you're North American and think the IRA are fucking rebel heroes, not like the terrorist cunts they really were. Bush is one of those dickheads.5timuli
- the terrorist cunts they really were. Bush is one of those dickheads.5timuli
- HI MUM!5timuli
- their artwork sucksLlyod
- both sides had their cunts. The loyalists were scum alsotoe_knee
- But they were never hailed as heroes, except by sympathisers who knew the cause... but yeah, all cunts really.5timuli
- Tungsten0
My parents are from Derry but this will be my first time going. Are the murals in Belfast just for the tourists or do they still have some meaning?
- 5timuli0
Tour guide:
http://www.qbn.com/carver/
- Tungsten0
any areas to avoid if I don't want to get jacked for my camera in Belfast or Derry?
- belfast and derry.Jnr_Madison
- you're so helpful.Tungsten
- Just Derry... Belfast is quite civilised, Derry is like nowhere else I've ever been.kingsteven
- lol jnrdoctor
- toe_knee0
drive the coast road from Belfast to Derry. Stunning. Northern ireland cities are pretty shit though. Lagging behind cities in the south.
Theres a rope bridge somewhere along the coast near giants causeway
- toe_knee0
And do the black cab tour. its really interesting and takes you t oall the bomb sites and old IRA haunts
- Tungsten0
I've heard the antrim coast is fucking spectacular.
- kingsteven0
Some good shows in Belfast this week...
Don Caballero on the 14th (I'll probably be DJing downstairs)
Ōtomo Yoshihide on the 19thAs for murals/ no one with half a brain gives a shit... Spend some time in the bars in Derry and Belfast, rejoice in the lalt and gawk at the terrifying locals.
Go freeze your balls off on the north coast, all my American friends can't get enough of that shit.
- kingsteven0
oh yeah, and that rope bridge mentioned above is called carrick-a-reed, but it may well be closed this time of year.
- Tungsten0
planning on spending most of my time in the pubs anyway.
- dconstrukt-1
haha.... no much do do there.... been to bangor.... you can drink?
or you can watch the irish drink.... boy they can drink.... like fish.
they don't do bar tabs.... cash only. (gee i wonder why)
- sfeske0
gez, i went to Larne for a weekend once... that's all i know of Northern Ireland.
- monoboy0
Went to Belfast once, also Ballycastle and Ballymena. Its mad how the villages change from tricolours to Union jacks as you drive through. Fookin' bizarre. The causeway is amazing. And Smithwicks is a nice pint.
- monoboy0
Went to Belfast once, also Ballycastle and Ballymena. Its mad how the villages change from tricolours to Union jacks as you drive through. Fookin' bizarre. The causeway is amazing. And Smithwicks is a nice pint.
- cherub0
I found this gem on youtube. I love UK history.
But this... is so shocking I don't know what to be shocked at more. "Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right!" sounds ominous. Makes my hair stand up.
Fact: 'West Briton' is not just some made up phrase thrown into Joyce's "The Dead." That was real. (people being accused of being West Britons)
Fact: someone at 19:50 claims the poor in Dublin "lived by the courtesy of... the Jewish community." Again, Joyce inserts Jewish characters into his work, and now I know why.
Fact: Someone was passing guns through the bushes to the ?orange volunteers? to defend against the anti-home rulers? Well at any rate, that seems out of place being that Europe is so anti gun. Weird.
What else to be shocked at. There are so many.
- west brit still a phase you hear every now again in the north referring to southerners indifferent to unification/ otherwise oblivious of their own historykingsteven
- it's exactly the same now, loyalist paramilitaries still funded by UK gov't, still have more guns, stormont entirely designed to keep nationalists out of powerkingsteven
- police ignore criminal activity that funds the UVF, the orange order run a property monopoly. the big difference being that 120 years ago they thought ofkingsteven
- themselves as racially superior. it's going to be an interesting few years.kingsteven
- “stormont entirely designed to keep nationalists out of power” - is that common knowledge in the north? Never considered it but I don’t doubt it for a second.mort_
- its designed to allow vetos (petitions of concern) on community grounds to block legislation. even by the time power sharing was established unionists startedkingsteven
- jumping ship from the UUP to DUP in order to create a single unionist party larger than the biggest nationalist party (at the time SDLP)kingsteven
- (the DUP being majority against the peace process) of course by 2003 this decimated both the UUP and SDLP and left most reasonable people without a voicekingsteven
- Right yeah. What a farce.mort_
- i can't see any way the DUP (even with redrawn electoral lines) will be the biggest party at the next elections. they will inevitably stall the executive againkingsteven
- bringing the country under London rule (where the DUP not SF have seats) and will fight home rule in Westminster (another repeat of the 1880s)kingsteven
- Most people are very aware and sick of it. DUP voters are dying off like mad. While SF actually coming off like a reasonably progressive party in the south.kingsteven
- Yeah, SF did incredibly well in the last general election here.mort_
- there's some nice little moves being made in Dublin ATM. making the 12th July an all Irish public holiday being discussed ATM, i think that's a genius move.kingsteven
- it's like when parents buy the toddler a present from the new baby so they don't get jealous and throttle it in the cot :Dkingsteven
- Fuck me. That’s one public holiday I won’t be taking off work.mort_
- lol nice analogymort_