Great Days Out Around Northern Ireland
Ever wondered where to start exploring the gorgeous rolling green hills of Northern Ireland, or its enigmatic coastline, perhaps the bustling cities Belfast and Derry~Londonderry are calling out your name?
Well, Tourism Ireland’s brand new video is brimming with easy to reach trip ideas to get you around Northern Ireland. The only tricky thing will be choosing which trip to take... and how many!
Footage of Cuilcagh Legnabrocky Trail courtesy of
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1. The urban city of Belfast is renowned for its charming atmosphere and friendly people, but its maritime heritage can bring you on a fascinating journey into the city’s shipbuilding past. Head to the city’s Titanic Quarter, the location for Titanic Belfast: Expect gantry rides, an underwater cinema show and stunning cabin recreations. No wonder it has been named the World's Leading Tourist Attraction at the World Travel Awards.
2. The prestigious travel bible Lonely Planet voted Belfast and the Causeway Coast Best in Travel 2018. Deemed to be one of the world’s most “geographically diverse regions”, the Causeway Coast is home to amazing sights, including the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, Mussenden Temple, as well as the jewel in its crown: the legend-laden Giant’s Causeway.
3. HBO’s hit tv series Game of Thrones® brought the natural beauty of Northern Ireland to the small screen. Impressed with the landscapes? Well, did you know the show was filmed at multiple Northern Ireland locations, including the Dark Hedges in County Antrim and Castle Ward in County Down. Grab your broadsword and enjoy.
4. Suitably nicknamed ‘Stairway to Heaven’, the boardwalk around the Cuilcagh Mountains in the Marble Arch Global Geopark is actually part of the Cuilcagh Legnabrocky Trail. The boardwalk is 1.6 km in length and is located at the end of a 5.8km limestone gravel track. The Cuilcagh Legnabrocky Trail is a linear route which will appeal to walkers with some experience walking in the hills. According to NIExplorer: “Cuilcagh, from the Irish meaning ‘chalky peak’, is Fermanagh’s highest mountain and sits right on the border of County Fermanagh in the north and County Cavan in the south of Ireland. Legnabrocky is the rural townland just to the north of the mountain’s summit and is where this walking trail begins.” Discover more of it with NI Explorer’s wonderful video.
5. With the Irish Sea tracing around the course perimeter and the Mourne Mountains as a striking backdrop, Golf Digest has listed Royal County Down Golf Club as number one in its ranking of the World’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses outside the US.
6. Don’t just sweep in to Derry~Londonderry on a flying visit, stroll the walls – they’ve been standing tall for some 400 years, after all! Take a tour and meet the locals, enjoy tastes galore in the Walled City Brewery, and follow your ear to traditional music sessions across town. Northern Ireland’s Walled City is spectacular in every way, but for one week during the year, it turns ‘spook-tacular’ as it transforms into what USA Today has said is the world’s best spot to celebrate Halloween!
7. Ireland’s patron saint, Saint Patrick, can be remembered fondly in Counties Down and Armagh. Said to have begun his mission to spread Christianity in County Down, Saint Patrick went on to found his main church in County Armagh in 445AD.
8. The wild and wonderful Mourne Mountains are a nature lover’s paradise. An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, it has numerous trails for walking, hiking and mountain biking as its peaks sweep down to the sea. But did you know they were also inspiration for one of the world’s best-loved authors: “I have seen landscapes which, under a particular light, made me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge,” wrote CS Lewis, the Belfast-born author of the Chronicles of Narnia.
9. Rediscover the stories of your ancestors at the intriguing Ulster American Folk Park. This unique experience is home to authentic thatched cottages, a full scale emigrant ship and American Frontier log cabins.
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Stephen Boyd, Messala in Ben-Hur, Blue Plaque Belfast
I'm up at the Whitehouse on the Belfast Shore Road. I've stopped just before the turn off for Doagh on the left. A Blue Plaque has recently been placed on Victorian Moygara House to remember the life of Hollywood film star Stephen Boyd who was born close to this spot.
Stephen Boyd – real name William Millar – was born in a house, long demolished, at the corner of the Doagh Road, Whitehouse on July 4, 1931. Boyd was the youngest of nine siblings born to Irish/Canadian parents, James Alexander Millar and his wife Martha Boyd. At a very early age, William, or Billy as he was known, moved with the family to live in Glengormley. Boyd attended the local Public Elementary School and Ballyclare High School, but at the age of fourteen Boyd quit school to take up other jobs to help support his family. He eventually joined the Ulster Group Theater where he learned the behind the scenes tasks of the theater. He became well known in Belfast for his contributions as a gravel-voiced policeman on the Ulster Radio program The McCooeys, the story of a Belfast family written by Joseph Tomelty. Boyd eventually worked his way up to character parts and then starring roles. By nineteen he had toured Canada with summer stock companies. In 1950 he made a coast to coast tour of America with the Clare Tree Major Company, 1956 performing A Streetcar Named Desire in the lead role as Stanley Kowalski. Boyd would later recall this as the best performance I ever gave in my life.
Boyd caught his first break as a doorman at the Odeon Theatre. The Leicester Square Cinema across the street recruited him to usher attendees during the British Academy Awards in the early 1950s. During the awards ceremony he was noticed by actor Sir Michael Redgrave, who used his connections to introduce Boyd to the director of the Windsor Repertory Group. This was just the beginning of his meteoric rise to fame.
The first role that got him noticed was as an Irish spy in the movie The Man Who Never Was, released in 1956.
Hell in Korea followed. This featured future stars Michael Caine and Robert Shaw.
He arrived in Hollywood in January 1958 to take on his first true Hollywood role as a renegade cowboy in the Twentieth Century Fox western The Bravados, which starred Gregory Peck and Joan Collins. Being cast as the villlanous Messala in Ben-Hur against Charlton Heston was Stephen Boyd's greatest break through. Many other actors, including Victor Mature, Kirk Douglas, Leslie Nielsen and Stewart Granger had been considered for the part. this was a major triumph. He was tipped as the new Clarke Gable! Ben-Hur was released in December 1959 and made Boyd an international star overnight. Sixty more films followed among them
Fantastic Voyage
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Island in the Sun
The Bravados
Genghis Khan
Hannie Caulder
and there would have been a lot more had he not succumbed to a heart attack on the golf course. He was only 45.
He was in talks to play the role of the Regimental Sergeant Major in Euan Lloyd's The Wild Geese before his untimely death.
Boyd was cremated and his ashes were interred in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California. His wife Elizabeth Mills Boyd was interred with him at the time of her death in 2007. Boyd is also remembered on his parents' grave in the Clandeboye Cemetery, Bangor, U.K.
On July 4, 2018, the Ulster History Circle, a voluntary organization which erects plaques across the Province of Ulster in the United Kingdom to celebrate people of achievement, commemorated Stephen Boyd with a blue plaque close to his birthplace at 'Moygara', Shore Road, Whitehouse (Belfast, Northern Ireland).
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Stunning view from Cavehill, Belfast.
Amazing view from Cavehill looking over belfast & belfast lough
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Garden or botanic display
Botanic Gardens
Archeological exhibit, museum
Decorative arts display
Paintings, art collections
Gold, silver, metalworking exhibit
Historical museum
Industrial attraction, factory museum
Minerals, geology attraction, mining
Ulster Museum
Hiking opportunity
Scenic site or route
Cave Hill
Historic site
Custom House
Architecture - Renaissance
Standalone sculpture, statue or fountain
Donegall Square (Donegall Square / City Hall)
Military attraction or museum
Nautical museum or attraction
Standalone sculpture, statue or fountain
Garden of Remembrance
Opera house or company
Grand Opera House
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Folk art exhibit
Nautical museum or attraction
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Lagan Weir
Sir Thomas & Lady Dixon Park-International Rose Garden
St Anne's Cathedral
St Malachy's Church St Patrick's Pro-Cathedral Streamvale
Zoological Gardens
Festival of arts of short duration
Events
Festival of arts of short duration
Battle of the Boyne Celebrations
Cinema, film festival
Cinemagic International Film Festival for Young People
Festival of arts of short duration
Civic Festival
Festival of arts of short duration
Musical activity or concert hall
Theatrical hall or company
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Folk Festival
Festival of arts of short duration
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Holywood Jazz & Blues Festival
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Horticultural Fair
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International Rose Trials
Crafts center or marketplace
King's Hall Autumn Fair
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Musical activity or concert hall
Musical Festival
Festival of arts of short duration Culinary attraction
Festival of arts of short duration
Irish Festival
Crafts center or marketplace
Fabrics, textiles, costumes exhibits
Industrial attraction, factory museum
Irish Linen Centre
Fishing opportunity
Lake
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Lough Neagh
Dungannon tourist attractions
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Glenavy
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Magherafelt
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Ram's Island
Fishing opportunity
Golf course
Ballygalley
Beach
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Carnlough
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Carrickfergus
Historic site
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Andrew Jackson (Andrew Jackson / U.S. Rangers' Centre)
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Zoo or animal collection
Ballycarry - Loughside Open Dairy Farm
Castle, chateau, palace
Carrickfergus Castle
Paintings, art collections
Historical museum
Carrickfergus Museum & Civic Centre
Festival of arts of short duration
Lughnasa Medieval Fair
Culinary attraction
Festival of arts of short duration
Medieval Banquets
Carrickfergus - Knight Ride & Heritage Plaza
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Cushendall
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Cushendun
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Glenariff Forest Park
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Glenarm
Cave
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Island Magee
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Larne
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Provincial or municipal park
Carnfunnock Country Park
Historical museum
Historical Centre
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Archeological site or ruin
Architecture - Medieval
Olderfleet Castle
Scenic site or route
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Waterfoot
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Whitehead
Fishing opportunity
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Hiking opportunity
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Comber
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Castle Espie - Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Archeological exhibit, museum
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Christian sites
Mahee Island - Nendrum Monastic Site
Historic site
Small town or village
Downpatrick
Small town or village
Clough
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Archeological site or ruin
Mount Stewart House and Gardens Roman, Greek, Stormo
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Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
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Instead of Red Face—How We Show Up—The 2016 TCG Conference—Washington, DC—June 23, 2016
Theatre Communications Group presents the 2016 TCG National Conference: Theatre Nation (ASL-interpreted) livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday, June 23 to Saturday, June 25. Share your thoughts and media with hashtags #TCG16 and #howlround in all social media platforms. Follow @TCG and @HowlRoundTV in Twitter for updates.
What does it mean to be a citizen of Theatre Nation?
From June 23-25, the 2016 TCG National Conference: Theatre Nation will bring together over 1,000 theatre practitioners from across the globe for performances, knowledge sharing, and thought-provoking speakers. We’ll build on the success of the 2015 Cleveland Conference—our highest-rated in history—by further innovating programming like our Skills-Building Workshops and At the Intersections arcs, empowering deeper professional development and peer connection.
We’ll also seize the unique opportunity of assembling at our nation’s capitol during an election year to imagine a more central role for our art form in civic life. In a time of political polarization and civil strife, can we imagine a Theatre Nation whose borders are not bound by walls, but opened through affinities of passion and creative practice? Can we create a Theatre Nation that welcomes everyone who shares those affinities, and equitably represents them? What is our bill of rights (and responsibilities) for citizens of Theatre Nation? How might we declare our interdependence? How can our Theatre Nation model a more perfect union for our country and world? The answers to these questions can only be found through an inclusive and participatory process that engages the full diversity of our field—which means we need you.
At the heart of this work lies TCG’s vision of “A better world for theatre. A better world because of theatre.” We’ll bring that activist spirit to visit legislators on Capitol Hill. We’ll invite practitioners from across the world, because we know members of our Theatre Nation are global citizens. We’ll continue our conversations on equity, diversity, and inclusion, and we’ll spotlight the artistry that is the center of all our work.
Instead of Red Face
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This session is an ally-inclusive space dedicated to celebrating and supporting the #InsteadOfRedFace movement, which challenges American theatre to honor authentic Indigenous voices over redface. The session will include background on the movement, the current state of the field in relationship to engaging with integrity with Native artists and communities, and a planning/brainstorming session of future action steps for the entire theatre community.
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360 Degree Video from The Moat - Donaghadee Northern Ireland
A 3D/360 degree video from the top of the impressive Moat in Donaghadee. See the lighthouse in the distance - but you can see how impressive the view is from the site and why it is definitely worth checking out next time you visit.
County Down is a beautiful area in Northern Ireland - if travelling around the country - visit Donaghadee and another of the other towns in the county. Donaghadee is a small town in county Down that lies on the northeast coast of the Ards Peninsula, about 18 miles east of Belfast (
There are different places which are known when it comes to Northern Ireland and there are those which are not much visited especially when it comes to the tourists who directly head to the capital city. Donaghadee might not be the place to visit different touristic locations, but there are those which bring the local Irish people to the town in order to check them, such as the Moat as well as the Harbour and the Lighthouse (
This 360 degree video experience was taken from the Moat site. The Moat in Donaghadee town was built back in the old days in order to house the explosives for the blasting involved in the construction of the harbour and without even mentioning that, but it is one of the most well known prominent features of this small town. The Moat was built in 1818 and even though it is considered an important historical place in Donaghadee, it is now part of a garden that offers a beautiful view of the town - even the lighthouse could be spotted from up there - and it also offers good views for the sea towards the Copeland Islands.
Not just the Moat that is considered an attraction in Donaghadee, but there is also the Harbour and the Lighthouse which could be spotted from the hill on which the Moat is located. The Harbour of Donaghadee has been there from the 17th century and might be one of the most famous places there since it has been a haven for ships for centuries and that comes in addition to its lighthouse which it is famously known with as well.
These are the most important places to visit in Donaghadee, county Down, when it comes to history and those places which might have their popularity among the tourists and visitors, but there are still some other activities which one could be part of when it comes to Donaghadee, such as those different scenic walks including the marine walk at The Commons which is a cultivated open space with bowls, tennis, putting, and an adventure playground, and there is also Pier 36 along the seafront which is a famous restaurant and pub that managed to accumulate a number of awards in it short history - so you will definitely find a couple of things which you could do in Donaghadee and not just check the Harbour, the Lighthouse, and the Moat.
Donaghadee is the nearest port to Scotland and even back in the old days it was the landing point in Northern Ireland for travelers from the British mainland. Donaghadee was also the principle's port before Belfast became the major city and much of the town developments resulted from ships and shipping - so the harbour is not just a new thing to give this town a meaning and make it important to visit.
County Down is known to be one of the six different counties that are located in Northern Ireland which is found within the province of Ulster. There are other destinations which we have been to in county Down in addition to visiting Donaghadee, such as going to Rostrevor which is also situated there ( going to Portaferry was another thing we have done in county Down ( the Tollymore Forest which is located in Newcastle is also a good place to head to in county Down ( the famous Dundrum Castle which is also located near Newcastle could also be a hit ( and there is the Ballywalter village in county Down (
We loved the idea of taking this 360 degree video experience from the Moat because it is located on some kind of a hill and it offers a lot of views all over the whole town that we were also able to spot the lighthouse from up there - and that might be considered a plus that we spotted the most famous places of the town from the same location.
We love sharing our experiences and visits with our viewers and subscribers and we even love them more when they are in 360 degree videos because that way we help travelers to get in the experience without having to pass borders and travel across the seas to check the places themselves - of course will be much better but some people might not have the time and money.
Have you ever visited Donaghadee before?
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