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.

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Whitelaw Reid memorial lecture

One hundred years ago, in March 1912, the United States ambassador in London, Whitelaw Reid, gave a lecture in the Assembly Buildings in Bel...

Friday, 23 March 2012

'The leaven of the Ulster-Scots'

Each year the Belfast Burns Association holds a Burns Night supper to mark the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet. Some years ag...

Monday, 19 March 2012

Belfast City Marathon

The Deep River Rock Belfast City Marathon will take place this year on Monday 7 May. This is the 31st year of the marathon and last year it...

UKIP leader says our forefathers were wrong

On 3 February 2012 Nigel Farage MEP, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, was the guest speaker at a Making Politics Matter even...

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Crossmaglen's Nazi sculptor

Recently there has been some controversy about an application for public funding for the refurbishment of an IRA memorial in the centre of C...

Monday, 20 February 2012

Anither Ulster-Scotch wurd an yin mair forbye

Today Diarmaid O Muirithe discussed the word next in his Irish Times column Words We Use and to the use of the word in the sense 'in...

Sean Phelan commemoration in Liverpool

On Saturday (18 February) the Liverpool Irish Patriots Republican Flute Band organised a parade of republican bands in memory of IRA man Sea...

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