Whitehead | County Antrim | Blackhead Lighthouse | Belfast Lough | Discover Northern Ireland
Whitehead is a beautiful seaside town in County Antrim on Northern Ireland's east coast looking out on the opening to Belfast Lough. it is situated about 14 miles from Belfast City between Carrickfergus and Larne.
Before the Plantation of Ulster WHitehead was known as Kinbaine, from the Irish Cionn Bán, meaning 'the white head'. Whitehead in Northern Ireland has a population of around 3,800 as of the 2011 census.
County Antrim's east coast gem, Whitehead offers beautiful coastal scenery overlooking the mouth of Belfast Lough. Whitehead offers a lovely family day out at the seaside, where you can go sailing, fishing or walking. There is much to see and do in Whitehead.
Whitehead is near to Blackhead Lighthouse. There is a coastal path that brings you from Whitehead and up to the lighthouse around the rocky coastline. The path runs northeast from the seaside town of Whitehead to and around Blackhead lighthouse. The path is lined with grassland and interesting wildlife and their habitats on one side and Belfast Lough opening out to views of Scotland on a clear day on the other side.
With a colourful seafront, Whitehead is a welcoming and charming town on Northern Ireland's east coast. Accessible via train Whitehead is home to the Whitehead Railway Museum. Officially opened in 2017, the museum combines past and present modes of transport from today's locomotive to the steam engines made in the 1800s. The exhibition is inclusive and informative and fully accessible via wheelchair.
Whitehead also has plenty of restaurants and eateries for all the family, plenty of coastal views and walks to breathe in the fresh, sea air and enjoy with all the family.
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Electronic Sandbox - CCTV (LIVE @ The Magnet Centre, Newry, Northern Ireland)
This was filmed at the 2nd Heat of the Battle of the Bands in Newry at the Magnet Young Adult Centre on July 22nd 2011.
This is Electronic Sandbox and their song CCTV
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F E McCWIILIAMS Banbridge SCULPTOR
I've just called in to the excellent F E McWilliams scultor gallery/exhibition/garden and coffee shop, up on the Newry Road beside the old Down Shoes Factory outside Banbridge.
Come and see it for yourself. Local biy made good!
F.E. McWilliam, D.Litt., C.B.E. (30 April 1909 – 13 May 1992), was a British surrealist sculptor, born in Banbridge, County Down. He worked chiefly in stone, wood and bronze.
Biography
McWilliam was born in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, the son of Dr William McWilliam, a local GP. Growing up in Banbridge had a great influence on his work. He made references to furniture makers such as Carson the Cooper and Proctors in his letters to his friend, Marjorie Burnett.
He studied for a time at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he was later to end up teaching. During the first year of the Second World War he joined the Royal Air Force and was stationed in England where he was engaged in interpreting aerial reconnaissance photographs. Even during this time he was still able to exhibit and teach art.
Commissions included the Four Seasons Group for the Festival of Britain exhibition in 1951. McWilliam exhibited at Waddington Galleries, London, and had a major retrospective show at the Tate Gallery in 1989.
dfhgrIn 1964 he was awarded an Honorary D.Litt. from the Queen's University Belfast. In 1966 he was awarded a C.B.E. and in 1971 he won the Oireachtas Gold Medal. McWilliam is represented in many public collections, including MOMA (New York) and Tate Britain.
In September 2009 Banbridge District Council opened a Gallery and Studio dedicated to the work of and named after McWilliam.
Episode 02/The Tram - The Bessbrook Model Village Living History Archive
Follow Oliver, a tram worker in the late 19th century Bessbrook. The Bessbrook to Newry Tramway was a pinnacle of travel in the 19th century and a great asset to the local community and the business ambitions of the local mill.
Check out bessbrook.org for more information on the Bessbrook Living History Digital Archive Project, as funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund NI and managed by Newry, Mourne and Down District Council
THE CABLESHIP BEAUTIFUL: the career of CS RETRIEVER (Part 1)
A more detailed exploration of the career of Cable & Wireless's #cableship RETRIEVER, the fifth ship to bear the name, using images from the Telegraph Museum's own collection.
Transcript
The 4,000-ton cable repair ship RETRIEVER, built for #CableandWireless, and fifth to bear the name. Launched on Tuesday 20th December, 1960, at #CammellLaird & Co.'s Birkenhead shipyard.
'I name this ship RETRIEVER. May God bless her, and all who sail in her.' The naming ceremony was performed by Miss Judy Ince. She was the daughter of the Cable & Wireless chairman, Sir Godfrey Ince. As the ship slid down the slipway, the shipyard band played 'A Life on the Ocean Wave'. An hour and a half after the RETRIEVER touched water, Sir Godfrey died in a Wimbledon hospital.
The RETRIEVER was the most modern cableship of its time. It was the first Cable & Wireless cableship to be designed to handle telephone cables with submerged repeaters inserted and the first British merchant ship to be fitted with a facsimile weather chart recorder.
For its maiden voyage, it was under the command of Captain G. T. Robinson.
The RETRIEVER's first assignment was off the coast of New Jersey, USA - laying the shore-ends of the US-Bermuda co-axial #telephonecable. This ran from Manahawkin, NJ, to Flatts, Bermuda.
By April 1962, the RETRIEVER was laying the shore-ends of the Auckland-Sydney part of the Commonwealth Telephone Cable (#COMPAC). Here, we see cable machinery on the main deck, under the foredeck.
The RETRIEVER's main propulsion machinery was by the English Electric Company. In its first year, the RETRIEVER steamed over 50,000 miles. Here, above the diesels, we see the stamp of Merseyside shipbuilding quality.
After its antipodean adventure, the RETRIEVER went on to Suva to lay the shore-ends of the Fijian-New Zealand link. Its crew for this task was Fijian - the first Fijian crew to man a Cable & Wireless vessel. One Fijian petty officer, Helgar Johansen, left the ship to become a heavyweight boxer. He represented #Fiji at the 1962 Commonwealth Games, held in Perth, Australia, where he won Bronze.
Here, we can see down a cable hatch into one of the RETRIEVER's cable tanks.
By now, the RETRIEVER was no longer the newest ship in the Cable & Wireless fleet. That honour went to the new C&W flagship, CS MERCURY (Capt. G. H. C. Reynolds), which joined the RETRIEVER in the Pacific in January, 1963.
By June 1963, the RETRIEVER, now under Captain P. B. Henderson, was in Hawaii, laying the shore-ends for COMPAC near Honolulu. The ship was stand-by to the cable-layers #MERCURY and the GPO's HMTS #MONARCH (Capt. O. R. Bates) when its officers weren't trying to limbo dance. What were they thinking?
In 1964, the RETRIEVER was a star at that year's British Exhibition. Held at Sydney, the Exhibition was British industry's largest overseas trade fair, and Cable & Wireless was represented by the cableship. The RETRIEVER (under Capt. W. H. Cross) was dressed overall for the occasion, and it was thought there would be some 4,000 visitors. Over the 23 days, these visitors might have seen the chart-room, the Chief Engineer's day-cabin, or the officers' galley, or, perhaps, the ship's surgery. When the Exhibition was over, the RETRIEVER had had 13,000 visitors.
For much of the 1960s, the RETRIEVER was based in Suva, Fiji, but returned home in 1965 for a three-month refit at Immingham. Its Fijian crew had formed a rugby fifteen, which was challenged to a game against cadets of the RAF College, Cranwell. They played valiantly, with scrum-half Osea Yaganasoko scoring a try. But Cranwell won by 25 points to 3. Afterwards, they visited a local pub and held an impromptu concert with their musical instruments.
The RETRIEVER returned to the Pacific and its cable maintenance role. But these duties were interrupted in October 1967 by a distress call.
Omagh. Northern Ireland. Фото. Photo.
2010.
Body Adorned
'The Body Adorned' at the Horniman Museum considers how the movement of people, objects and ideas influenced London dress in the past and explores body adornment in today's world city of London. The brief for the installation was to create a piece that made the visitor reflect on how we navigate London; how we choose what we wear and how we respond to other people.
We filmed a series of portraits across 4 contrasting areas of London: The City, Chelsea, Brick Lane and Peckham, asking each person why they dress as they do. We then invited everyone featured to watch all the other portraits online and give their impressions of what they saw. From the resulting recordings, we created a surround sound installation that brings to life the internal dialogue we all share as we navigate the streets of London.
The installation represents an anthropology of dress in London that sits at the heart of the exhibition.
Creative Direction: Christopher Thomas Allen & James Price
Producer: Alice Ceresole
Camera: Christopher Thomas Allen, Simon Bertheux, Tim Cowie & James Price
Editor: James Price
Motion Graphics: Simon Bertheux, Tim Cowie & Ivan Gomez-Espana
Sound Design: Tim Cowie
Production Assistant: Jaha Browne
Assistant Editors: Simon Bertheux, Tim Cowie
Camera Assistants: Jaha Browne, Thomas Buttery, Francesca Casilli, Jai Rafferty, Babis Tsoutsas, Cameron Wauchope & Bea Wilson
© The Light Surgeons 2012
County Down Walk | Northern Ireland | Irish Castles | NI
A walk through county Down in Northern Ireland...
Northern Ireland is formed of six different counties which county Down is just one of them, which is located in the northeast of the island of Ireland. County Down is one of the thirty two traditional counties of Ireland and is within the province of Ulster.
There are different things to be done in county Down and there are magical views and scenery to be spotted, and that is definitely one of the different reasons why the people of Belfast consider it their getaway since it is just a short drive away; they can hike, enjoy the calm and beautiful scenery, or just even play golf.
There are different things to be done in county Down - which you could definitely include in this walk - these things include climbing the Mourne Mountains, visiting Tollymore Forest ( enjoying a golf game, roaming Mount Stewart ( visiting the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum ( checking St.Patrick's ( enjoy the beauty of Strangford Lough ( visit Down County Museum ( and enjoy the beauty of nature in general which you will definitely fall in love with when it comes to county Down.
The combination between having a peaceful time, enjoying the nature, visiting some old Irish castles, playing around, and even checking some of the destinations that appeared in the famous movie series Game of Thrones, is considered the perfect combination that would be calling out for visitors and tourists to come and visit county Down with all the beauty that it tends to offer.
Game of thrones is one of the famous movie series that people all around the world are watching, and travelling to Northern Ireland in general will bring a dream true to all the fans because they will get the chance to see some of the locations in which the movie was filmed and even check some of the doors that appeared throughout the episodes. While being in county Down, checking Castle Ward will be one of the things to be done by those fans, which will tend to bring part of county Down to them as well.
County Down is divided into different towns, the largest of them is Bangor which is located on the northeast coast, and there are also three other large towns and cities on its border; Newry lies on the western border with county Armagh, while Lisburn and Belfast lie on the northern border with county Antrim.
County Down contains both, the southernmost point of Northern Ireland (Cranfield Point) and the easternmost point of Ireland (Burr Point). There are different interesting geographical information that one should know about county Down in Northern Ireland, such as the two significant peninsulas that it contains: Ards Peninsula and Lecale Peninsula.
Northern Ireland is known with its beautiful nature and the different greenery which the eyes will get to see and part of this is found in county Down. County Down has several islands off the Down Coast: Mew Island, Light House Island, and the Copeland Islands, all of which lie in the north of the Ards peninsula. Gunn Island lies off the Lecale coast, and this comes in addition to the number of small islands in Strangford Lough.
There are different places of interest to be visited when it comes to county Down in addition to the ones already mentioned. In county Down there is Exploris which is the Northern Ireland aquarium that is located in Portaferry, there is also Scrabo Tower which is located in Newtownards, Saul where St. Patrick said his first eucharist in Ireland, the Old Inn in Crawfordsburn is one of Ireland's oldest hostelries with records dating back to 1614, and lots of other beautiful places that one would not want to miss.
County Down borders county Antrim to the north, the Irish Sea to the east, county Armagh to the west, and county Louth across Carlingford Lough to the southwest, and this could pretty much sum up why county Down is considered one of the most favorite when it comes to tourists - it brings everything for them just like that.
This is all what you will need to know about county Down in Northern Ireland and the top attractions in it, and by now you should know where you want to go during your upcoming visit to Northern Ireland.
You could check more videos on our channel and get different suggestions and ideas about the places to go to, the things never to miss, and the destinations to choose in order to go and have some fun along the way.
Tell us about your opinion; have you been to county Down before? What did you enjoy the most? Share your experience with us.
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Otis 2000 H Elevator At The Armagh County Museum
otis 2000 h elevator at the armagh county museum 2 Floors (0, 1,)
Annual Famine Commemoration 2015
Annual Famine Commemoration 2015 Warrenpoint - unveiling of the monument by Irish Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys
Ulster Fleadh 2018; Traditional Irish Music, Songs and Dance
Travelling all around Ireland and Northern Ireland means getting introduced to their traditional things, such as the food and the music. Fleadh is a tradition Irish music, songs and dance that is transformed into competitions and festivals.
The Fleadh Cheoil is an Irish competition that is run by Comhaltas Ceoltoiri, which is a non-profit group. Fleadh is one thing that Irish people give much of their attention to, especially when it comes to this competition which goes through different stages; in Ireland, there are county and provincial competitions leading to the All-Ireland Fleadh.
There's a long history behind the traditional Irish Fleadh which started back in Mullingar, 1951. Following this year, the number of competitors increased that qualifying stages had to be arranged at county and provincial levels. Since that time, the Fleadh became a yearly event that is held not only in Ireland, but also all over Britain.
There were some goals behind starting the Fleadh back in time, which was to establish standards in the Irish traditional music through competition. The Fleadh started and was known mainly as a competition, but it was then famous as concerts, céilíthe (which is a traditional Irish gathering), parades and sessions.
The largest Fleadh that ever took place was in 2013 in Derry and which attracted 430,000 people, and this Fleadh was considered notable because it was the first All-Ireland Fleadh to be staged in Northern Ireland.
Ulster Fleadh 2018 was taking place from 23rd to the 29th of July in Castlewellan. There were different people taking their parts and roles in this event and one of them for example was Newry, Mourne and Down Youth Trad Orchestra, who played in St. Malachy's church in the town of Castlewellan.
We have managed to attend different performances this year throughout Castlewellan, we have attended the ceili with the Neily O'Connor band, we have went to St. Malachy's church to attend those school competitions held there, there were also some celebrations at Mullholand's Bar, we went to Mooney Bros' Lounge, we checked in Savages Bar, we also attended musical performances at The Townhouse, we went to the Old Tom Bar, we visited King's Inn, we went to The Fountain Bar, we attended the Fleadh Parade, we have witnessed the marching band competitions, we loved to see the children's activities, and we enjoyed everything related to this competition and music festival held every single year in Northern Ireland.
For the non-Irish visitors who are coming to Northern Ireland during the time of the year in which Fleadh is held, we believe they should make a plan to check these performances and traditions related to the traditional Irish music, songs and dance because they will get to know more about the Irish world and know more about their traditional music and songs.
There are different touristic attractions and places to be visited in Ulster, Northern Ireland, and these include Ulster Folk Museum ( Ulster Museum with its long history ( and Ulster Transport Museum (
It is always interesting to mix your trip to a new city or country between walking down the streets, eating their traditional food, listening to their traditional music and songs, attending their traditional events and festivals, visiting their museums and other historical destinations and attractions, and doing every other things that might be related to the country as a whole, because this will help in delivering the whole picture about the country to you.
Fleadh is held at specific times during the year and this means that your trip might not be held during those same dates, so you might not get the chance to see any of these performances we are talking about, but you could watch this videos (or other ones) to get to know more about this event that is still celebrating the traditional Irish music, songs and dance.
The aim of this event is to keep people in contact with this traditional music and also keep the kids well informed and well aware of their traditional music and get to know more about it and be part of it all. This was actually the main reason behind the creation of Fleadh and making it all about the traditional music, songs and dancing.
Have you ever attended the Fleadh in Ireland or Northern Ireland before? What did you enjoy the most from these different performances and competitions done there? Share your stories with us!
You will also find some famous musicians, singers and dancers who are attending this event and who might be even the ones opening and starting the whole thing, so you will also get the chance to listen to some famous performers who you might have listened to or heard about before.
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EAMONN O'NEILL FOR SOUTH DOWN MLA
Eamonn O'Neill is hoping the voters of South Down will return him to the Assembly where he served a term from 1998, only to subsequently miss out in 2003 by the narrowest of margins, just 36 votes (ironically, losing out to party colleague and then rising star Margaret Ritchie).
The Castlewellan-based SDLP representative didn't stand in the 2007 election but has maintained a high profile locally, currently serving as Chairperson of Down District Council, where he has spent thirty-fours years as a councillor
Tourism in Northern Ireland - The 2016 Armagh Ambassador Programme
Twenty five Armagh Ambassadors visited 15 attractions in February/March 2016 to increase their knowledge and pride in what the city of Armagh has to offer tourists today. See them travel around Armagh learning about its top visitor attractions from Navan Fort to Armagh Planetarium and lots more besides. The programme was funded by Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council.
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Brittany + Ben: Sunday River Wedding Video — Newry, ME
Brittany and Ben tied the knot atop a mountain on a cold, beautiful autumn day in Maine. They quietly shared their vows with each other, but allowed their words to be savored in their wedding film. You can see how these two compliment each other with a subtle strength and the way they obviously enjoy being together. You know what they say partners who hike together stay together!
Music licensed through Artlist: Halation by Evolv
Venue: Sunday River
Ulster American Folk Park Intergenerational Drama
Through Artscare the Live and Learn Programme at the Ulster American Folk Park present a drama based on the theme of emigration.
Sinn Féin's Fintan Warfield supports marriage equality.
Sinn Féin's Fintan Warfield speaks in support of marriage equality at the 2013 Ard Fheis.
Newcastle County Down Airshow Red Arrows Display 2017
Red Arrows aerobatic display at Newcastle Airshow 2017
RAF Red Arrows Display (some comms audible) at Newcastle Festival of Flight 2017