First impressions
‘Are you on holiday here?’ The gentle question jolted my alarmingly delicate sensibilities. It sliced in to two days of worry about being an English woman living in Northern Ireland. What if I say...
Monthly Archive: April 2016
A Belfast Blog meets: Emma Jane Grey
A Belfast Blog asked to speak to Emma Jane Grey who is in the process of completing a PhD at the University of Aberdeen entitled ‘Archival Amnesia: Memory and Culture in Post-Ceasefire Northern Ireland’. Emma’s research focusses...
A Belfast Blog meets: Simon Maccabe
A Belfast Blog caught up with Simon Maccabe, founder and owner of ‘Cafe Smart’ on Belmont Road in East Belfast. Alongside the excellent coffee, and hard-to-beat smoked salmon bagels, our initial interest in Cafe...
The criminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland
In the April of 2016, a woman in the UK has been sentenced for the crime of having an abortion. I still can’t quite believe I am writing this, but it’s true: a woman...
