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.

Monday, 31 January 2011

James McHenry (1785-1845) - an Ulster author

There are a number of notable grave in the little graveyard at St Cedma's parish church in Larne and oen of them is the grave of the Uls...

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Look out for 'Born Fighting'

During a visit to Washington last year I met Senator James Webb, author of Born Fighting . During the meeting he mentioned that he was worki...

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Burns and the Northern Star

The first edition of the poems of Robert Burns, known as the Kilmarnock edition, was published in July 1786 and extracts from it appeared in...

Burns Clubs in Londonderry and Larne

Tonight the memory of the Scottish poet Robert Burns will be celebrated in many parts of Ulster. The awareness of Burns is greater now than...

Monday, 24 January 2011

Some advice to an American visitor

I came across this old article by Diarmaid O Muirithe from the Irish Times (24 May 2010) about the Ulster-Scots language: Amy Jamieson is ...

Sunday, 23 January 2011

For He is my Saviour

There is a tradition of writing Christian words to be sung to popular tunes. We find it, for example, in Songs of Victory , the hymn book o...

Saturday, 22 January 2011

Lesley Macaulay and 'cultural identity'

Lesley Macaulay contested the last general election for the Conservatives and Unionists and is a prospective Ulster Unionist candidate in Ea...

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