Tag: Shipbuilding
My Secret Garden
A portrait of the artist, Liam Breandán de Frinse. Liam Breandán de Frinse is one of Ireland's most accomplished multimedia artists, distinguished principally as a painter, but also well-known as an installation ar...
East Belfast: Past, Present and Future – Part One
First in a trilogy which examines the historic industrial past of east Belfast. Historian, Charles Ludlow discusses the beginnings of the area, former shipyard workers, Inglis Biscuit and Ropeworks employees, discu...
Belfast Tech: Artisans & Dreamers
Belfast College of Technology, opened its door to students in September 1906. The College was the centerpiece of the development of further education in Belfast. Purpose built, it acted as a showpiece on a par with Be...
Sailortown
Belfast environmentalist and R&B singer Del Halligan is passionate about the dockland area of Sailortown, currently being redeveloped to the point of extinction. In this poignant exclusive, Halligan mourn...
The Fallen Arches
The Newtownards Road has been well-known in the past, for such icons as Inglis's Bakery, the Sirocco Works and Irvine's shoe shop. Norman Kennedy and Jim Patton, of the East Belfast Historical Society, recall the s...
A Century Later: Ronnie Appleton
Reflections on a dying community which gave much to the development of Belfast. “I think the Belfast Jewish community has made a contribution to Northern Ireland much in excess to its numbers”