Nelson's View

Nelson McCausland MLA (Democratic Unionist Party - Constituency: North Belfast). A personal blog in which I comment on a wide variety of issues, political, cultural, social, historical and religious. If something takes my attention, then I may well comment on it.

Thursday, 31 December 2009

Belfast-born explorer

Today the Irish Times column, An Irishman's Diary , recalled the explorer and naturalist Dr David Walker, who was born in Belfast in 18...

The Return Room

On a more positive note with BBC Northern Ireland they broadcast an excellent old radio programme tonight. It was entitled The Return Room...

A missed opportunity for BBC

Tonight at 6.25 in Scotland BBC2 broadcast Auld Lang Syne , a half-hour programme by Artworks Scotland investigating the origins of Robert ...

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

George McWhirter

This year Sir James Galway, Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley all celebrated their 70th birthday but as far as I know the local arts sector ...

In Search of Ulster-Scots Land

In recent years there has been an increase in interest in the contribution of the Ulster-Scots to the making of America and in 2008 Barry Ar...

Country roots are Scotch-Irish

Back in 1973 Wayne Erbsen moved to Charlotte in North Carolina to dig deep into the roots of Southern Appalachian music. Today he lives in ...

Monday, 28 December 2009

Alexander Knox MD (2)

In his History of the County of Down , published in 1875, Alexander Knox MD (1802-1877) made the following observation about the state of th...

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