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#109 About Those Northern Ireland Travel Warnings
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Episode Guide – Podcast #109 News on Those Northern Ireland Travel Warnings
After the U.S. and Australia adjusted their travel information to Northern Ireland, we chatted with Heidi McAlpin, Belfast resident and editor of Belfast in Your Pocket.
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Show Notes:
00:00
Intro: The Devil’s Bit by Theresa Larkin & Noel McQuaid
00:30
Travel Warnings for Northern Ireland
Australian Warning:
http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/United_Kingdom
U.S. Warning:
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1052.html
01:35
Interview with Heidi McAlpin from Belfast in Your Pocket.
03:24
Marching Season and July 12th/Battle of the Boyne
10:28
What are the differences in Belfast from 1970s and 1980s to the Belfast of Today?
15:12
Ulster Museum
15:45
Belfast City Sightseeing Bus Tours
16:25
Black Taxi Tours Belfast
19:20
Bram Stoker Festival – Dublin
19:30
St Michan’s Church and the Mummies – Dublin
20:00
Glassnevin Cemetery – Dublin
20:21
The National Wax Museum Plus – Dublin
20:45
Halloween Fireworks – Belfast
20:55
Halloween Carnival - Derry
21:22
Belfast Festival at Queens
21:40
Halloween’s Celtic Roots – Samhain
22:00
Hill of Tara & Newgrange
23:30
Titanic Centennial and London Olympics
24:10
Titanic Museum in the Titanic Quarter – Belfast
26:10
Titanic Walking Tour – Belfast – Colin Cobb
Trackbacks/Pingbacks
- Security Concerns in Northern Ireland | Irish Fireside - [...] echoes comments we heard from Belfast in Your Pocket editor Heidi McAlpin in our interview with her last fall. ...
This is a really lovely interview. I agree completely with Heidi McAlpin, having lived in Belfast four times over the past ten years, that it is a brilliant city with a vibrant social life and a LOT to offer visitors – great music, theatre, pubs, museums, galleries, clubs, and world-class hotels and restaurants. It is not to be missed. The now irrelevant warnings issued by the US and Australia shouldn’t bother anyone wanting to head to Ireland’s Northern counties. Marching season is well over, and no one need participate in those festivities even when they are on during the summer. Go and enjoy!
- Caroline Oceana Ryan, author, AN OLD CASTLE STANDING ON A FORD: One Yank’s Life in an Almost Peaceful Belfast (Eloquent Books, 2010)
Why would anyone celebrate such a horrible time in history!? It would be like the U.S. celebrating the demise of the Native American Indians!