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Welcome to Northern Ireland - Information about the Protestant, Unionist Culture and Heritage in Northern Ireland.
The Portadown News - Satirical news items, taking a poke at life in the province, and more specifically the Portadown area. Includes strong language.
Food Stuff Ireland - Magazine for food-lovers. Restaurant and book reviews, articles, and food events.
Letter to Slugger O'Toole - Reports on political and cultural life, with links to articles in papers, magazines and other knowledge resources.
Elemental Soup - Local humour and satire site that includes cartoons, animations and comic stories.
The Twelfth - An informative look at the Twelfth of July celebrations.
Citizens Advice Northern Ireland - Advice and assistance with legal problems, debt and consumer issues, benefits, housing, legal matters, employment and immigration. Local addresses and contacts.
Age Concern Northern Ireland - Voluntary organisation concerned with the elderly. Membership , contact details and fact sheets.
Aspect Ireland - A miscellany of things Irish, including photographs, stories, humour and items on people places and history.
The Rural Support Information Network - Providing information and contacts to support individuals and organisations on rural issues. Includes background, health advice, helpline information and details of financial assistance and benefits available to the distressed.
The Men's Project - An initiative within the Parents Advice Centre. Includes background, fact sheets, news and web directory.
NIPRA Irish Ghosts and Legends - Investigations from the Northern Ireland Paranormal Research Association, plus an archive of ghost stories.
Association of Independent Advice Centres - Includes newsletter and information about local resources.
The Ulster Cycle - An ongoing attempt to collect all the stories of the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology in one place.
ARK Northern Ireland - A resource dedicated to making social and political information on the province available to the widest possible audience.
Drugs Alcohol Info - Regional drugs and alcohol website for professionals in the province. Includes news, statistics, reports and surveys.
Mingy`s Guide to AA in Ireland - Includes events, contacts and a directory of Alcoholics Anonymous groups by province.
The Nexus Institute - Works to respond to the needs of adults who have experienced sexual abuse. Includes resources for survivors, fundraising information and contact details.
Oxfam Ireland - Supports projects that are designed to relieve poverty, distress and suffering in some of the poorest countries of the world. Includes annual report, current crises, advocacy and campaigns, programs and fundraising.
War On Want NI - Provides information on the charity's campaigns and projects.
The National Trust Northern Ireland - Charity dealing with the environment and conservation, as well as holiday accommodation, heritage sites and tourist attractions.
Lloyds TSB Foundation Northern Ireland - Independent grant-making foundation whose mission is to support and work in partnership with charitable organisations. Includes FAQ and application information.
Friends Of Salcia Foundation Trust - Collaborates with the Romanian based charity The Salcia Foundation to assist in funding the creation of children's homes. Includes background and information on making donations.
Blackshade - News stories, personal web logs and discussion for and about the province.
Northern Ireland Anti Poverty Network - Interactive network established to create a focus on poverty and social exclusion. Includes news, events and publications.
Breakthru - Youth drug awareness and support centre with a guide to services available and information about the helpline.
Belfaststudent.co.uk - Provides student information, news and photographs.
The Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood Northern Ireland - Campaign for natural and unpasteurised beer. Includes aims and history.
Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey - Initiative launched in October 1998 with the aim of establishing a resource for everyone interested in the social attitudes of people living in the country.
Project Azure Door - Documents UFOs seen by members of the public from or in Northern Ireland.
Missing Irish People - Listings service for missing people in Ireland.
Compassionate Friends - Remembering the children of Northern Ireland, with guestbook.
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James Society and Culture The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Society and Culture It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy Society and Culture The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Society and Culture Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th "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) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Society and Culture In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Society and Culture "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Society and Culture A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Society and Culture Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. Society and Culture Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Society and Culture "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Society and Culture Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Society and Culture
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