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Cruithni, Ulster History - A brief illustrated history of Ulster, with suggested books for further reading.
The Ireland Story - History of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present day, supplemented with maps, and sections on the Troubles, the Omagh Bomb and the Famine.
The James Harshaw Diaries - A description of the Diaries and of people of Counties Down and Armagh in the mid-1800s. Also includes an account of John Martin, Young Irelander.
The Belfast Blitz - BBC Northern Ireland's collection of pictures, audio, video and personal accounts of the terrible experience of one city's citizens - men, women and children - when a world war came to them.
BBC Online - Northern Ireland History - Portal site examining history throughout the 20th century, including the World War II and features on the Troubles. Features multimedia items from the decades of the 20th century.
The Linen Trail - Summary of the development of flax and linen world wide, and in the British Isles. Includes a section on Limavady and Northwest.
BBC: Key events in Northern Ireland history - A special report from 1998 on the BBC News website, dealing with some key events in the history of Northern Ireland.
The Somme Heritage Centre - The First World War shaped the world we live in today, and nowhere more than in Ireland. Nearly a quarter of a million Ulstermen and other Irishmen and women served in the armed forces and in the factories.
Ulster Place-name Society - Provides details of membership, the society journal and event information.
Ulster Historical Foundation - A non-profit making organisation that promotes interest in Irish genealogy and history.
1798 Ireland - Provides information and articles on the 1798 rebellion and the events leading up to this time.
Irish Archaeology - Includes a web directory, the Newsletter of the Irish section of the Paleopathology Association and book reviews.
Ulster History Circle - Voluntary organisation that erects blue plaques to honour famous men and women who have contributed to Ulster society. Provides information on existing plaques, with biographies.
The Flight of the Earls - Information on the exile of the northern nobles in September 1607 and its aftermath.
Dissolving Boundaries Through Education - A joint project on the Irish Potato Famine, by St Louis Grammar School, Kilkeel, and Kells Community School, Co. Meath.
Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive - Collection contains 55 hours of moving images about Northern Ireland from 1897-2000, including drama, animation, documentaries, news, newsreels, and amateur films.
Ulster Titanic Society - Information about the ship which was made in Belfast, and of some of those who died on her.
The origin of Danny Boy or Londonderry Air - Includes song lyrics along with details and photographs of the history surrounding the song.
Northern Ireland Aviation Archaeology Team - Features various aircraft crash sites that have been visited and dug. Includes photographs and video.
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) History There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb History We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi 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 History Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard History I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) History You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken History "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 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland History Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch History Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson History "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon History the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero History You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley History Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre History America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd History You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) History When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) History The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm History There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 History I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler History "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) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) History "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci History The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton History
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