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 December 2012

A guid new yeir

A Guid New Year Tae Ane an Aw’ This old song is sung by Scots at Hogmanay after the bells which ring in the New Year. I can recall it b...

Sunday, 30 December 2012

A hymn for Ulster

Songs of Praise concluded tonight with a medley of four hymns reflecting the four nations within the United Kingdom. W Y Fullerton...

Tuesday, 25 December 2012

A Night to Remember

One of the highlights of the past year was the opening of the new Titanic centre in Belfast. It has proved extremely popular with touris...

Monday, 24 December 2012

A 17th century Presbyterian session

Templepatrick Old Presbyterian Church - congregation founded in 1627, present building 1784 The other day I was in Antrim for an appoin...

The cost of the AV referendum

In May 2011 the United Kingdom held a referendum on changing the national voting system from 'first past the post' to AV (Alterna...

Saturday, 22 December 2012

Shall we gather at the river?

This afternoon I watched The Searchers , an American western film made in 1956 by John Ford. It was based on a 1954 novel by Alan Le May...

Friday, 21 December 2012

Mary Ann McCracken and the Union

Many of the Ulstermen who fought in the ranks of the United Irishmen in 1798 came to accept and indeed approve of the Act of Union. A sma...

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