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Flaming Publications - A history of the Belfast Fire Brigade. Famous dates, a description of the different vehicles used as engines over the years, and records of some famous fires dealt with by the brigade.
Sailortown Society - Formal group of people formed in 1999 to oversee the reunions of veteran city Dockers. Contains information about the society, photo galleries and up-to-date news.
Ulster Titanic Society - Information on the Titanic and the people from Belfast who built her. Chairman's note, committee details, shop and calendar of events.
Belfast Linux users' group - Information about Linux in Belfast, a list of committee members, and subscription details and an archive of their email list.
Voluntary Service Belfast - Places, supports and provides training for volunteers in the area. Details on training and the community arts programme.
Belfast Perl Mongers - Contains details of modules written by members, past talks, and the schedule, plus reviews, subscription information, and an FAQ. Several RSS feeds of the site content are also available.
Ulster Reform Club - Private members club with history and details of the function rooms, bar and dining room.
Bryson House - Community-based social services charity with information about the services offered and how to make a donation.
West Belfast Partnership Board - Includes mission statement, news and details of their activities.
The Simon Community Northern Ireland - Homeless charity. Includes press releases, plus information on homelessness and also on the housing facilities and services offered.
Jonnie5.com - The life and times of Jonnie Palmer. Includes photo galleries and his curriculum vitae.
Women's Support Network - Represents community based women's groups in the Greater Belfast area. Includes news and contact information.
Millar Memorial Flute Band - Loyalist marching band with history and information about parades attended.
Staff Association - Provides benefits and facilities to staff of the Eastern Health and Social Services Board. Includes services and who's who.
Oasis Caring in Action - Centre for the unemployed in East Belfast offering training and resources. Includes details of the resoration of the buildings and information on current projects.
The Bryson House Recycling Project - Provides information on recycling services available.
Laganside Corporation - Responsible for redeveloping the Laganside area. Provides information on the area, the local community and ongoing development projects.
Colin Glen Trust - Organisation committed to the development and management of the Colin Glen River Valley. Includes news, history, educational information and details of the golf course and forest park under its jurisdiction.
South Belfast Young Conquerors - Associated with LOL 890 and the 2nd Belfast battalion Ulster Volunteer Force. Includes history, parade reports and dedications to those who have died during the troubles.
UVF Regimental Band - Loyalist melody flute band. Includes history and photos.
Jewel Masonic Lodge No.592 - Includes information about officers and past Masters.
Rushlight The Belfast Magazine - Features old photos and stories, jokes and songs from the area.
Ardoyne Focus Group - Lobbies as a community development group. Includes details of group projects.
My web site all about Belfast - Includes the history of many parts of Belfast, and information about some famous people from the city.
East Belfast Historical Society - Local history, a calendar of events, and details of the committee.
Zero 28 - Articles on a variety of subjects and a programme of monthly events by a group of people who care about peace, justice, social ethics, the environment, and who take art and culture seriously. Also available in ".com".
County Down Clairvoyant - Offering clairvoyance, palmistry and tarot consultations from a city centre location. Includes brief details of services offered.
Belfast Carers' Centre - Providing advice, support and information to carers. Includes news and events.
Belfast Energy Efficiency Advice Centre - Provide a free independent source of energy efficiency advice and support.
Bloomfield Methodist Church - Offers service times and contact details.
I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Society and Culture Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Society and Culture If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Society and Culture I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown Society and Culture "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Society and Culture And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Society and Culture Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Society and Culture Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Society and Culture I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings Society and Culture "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Society and Culture I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Society and Culture We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Society and Culture Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Society and Culture The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Society and Culture "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz Society and Culture I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen Society and Culture I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture
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