Good Vibrations, and Hooleygan: Music, Mayhem, Good Vibrations, by Terri Hooley and Richard Sullivan
I love the film Good Vibrations. And Terri Hooley's autobiography is interesting!
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/good-vibrations-and-hooleygan-music-mayhem-good-vibrations-by-terri-hooley-and-richard-sullivan/
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Good Vibrations, and Hooleygan: Music, Mayhem, Good Vibrations, by Terri Hooley and Richard Sullivan

I love the film Good Vibrations. And Terri Hooley’s autobiography is interesting!

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Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite, by Sam McBride
This is a tremendous expose of the colossal scandal that brought down the Northern Ireland power-sharing executive government in 2017.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/burned-the-inside-story-of-the-cash-for-ash-scandal-and-northern-irelands-secretive-new-elite-by-sam-mcbride/
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Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite, by Sam McBride

This is a tremendous expose of the colossal scandal that brought down the Northern Ireland power-sharing executive government in 2017.

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Fifty Years On, by Malachi O’Doherty
It's about the fifty years from 1969 to 2019 in Northern Ireland, and the fundamental shifts in society,
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/fifty-years-on-by-malachi-odoherty/
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Fifty Years On, by Malachi O’Doherty

It’s about the fifty years from 1969 to 2019 in Northern Ireland, and the fundamental shifts in society,

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The Combined Election (Northern Ireland, 2001)
I have to say it was not as exciting as I had hoped!
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-combined-election-northern-ireland-2001/
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The Combined Election (Northern Ireland, 2001)

I have to say it was not as exciting as I had hoped!

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The 2024 Westminster election in Northern Ireland
This was a very good election for Sinn Fein.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-2024-westminster-election-in-northern-ireland/
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The 2024 Westminster election in Northern Ireland

This was a very good election for Sinn Fein.

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Northern Ireland: The Forgotten Election
As pundits speculate wildly about the scale of the coming Labour landslide and Conservative collapse in England, Scotland and Wales next Thursday, let’s remember that 18 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons are elected by voters in Northern Ireland....

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/northern-ireland-the-forgotten-election/
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Northern Ireland: The Forgotten Election

As pundits speculate wildly about the scale of the coming Labour landslide and Conservative collapse in England, Scotland and Wales next Thursday, let’s remember that 18 of the 650 seats in the Hou…

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Flying from Malone: Belfast’s First Civil Aerodrome, by Guy Warner
The brief moment in 1922-23 when Belfast had the first municipal airfield in the UK.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/flying-from-malone-belfasts-first-civil-aerodrome-by-guy-warner/
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Flying from Malone: Belfast’s First Civil Aerodrome, by Guy Warner

The brief moment in 1922-23 when Belfast had the first municipal airfield in the UK.

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The cemetery of the Protestant Cathedral at Belfast – Chesterton’s ‘The Sign of the Broken Sword’
A point that has niggled at me for almost half a century.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-cemetery-of-the-protestant-cathedral-at-belfast-chestertons-the-sign-of-the-broken-sword/
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The cemetery of the Protestant Cathedral at Belfast – Chesterton’s ‘The Sign of the Broken Sword’

A point that has niggled at me for almost half a century.

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Two very different books about Belfast
Two very different books from very different times.:
Belfast: Approach to Crisis, Budge & O'Leary
Belfast: The Story of a City and its People, Cochrane
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/two-very-different-books-about-belfast/
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Two very different books about Belfast

Two very different books from very different times.: Belfast: Approach to Crisis, Budge & O’Leary Belfast: The Story of a City and its People, Cochrane

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Male strippers, and the boundaries between South and West Belfast
The site of the Devenish has been in South Belfast since the 1970s, and before that it was not in Belfast at all.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/male-strippers-and-the-boundaries-between-south-and-west-belfast/
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Male strippers, and the boundaries between South and West Belfast

The site of the Devenish has been in South Belfast since the 1970s, and before that it was not in Belfast at all.

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