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Britain's Princess Margaret Rose went off at 17 on her first official visit without her family (Queen Elizabeth stood at the palace entrance and waved goodbye). The Princess spent four days in Belfast, christened a ship, did fine, got back safe & sound...
Steep Descent. The man who can put medieval scholasticism into such comfortable modern dress was born in Belfast, Ireland, where his grandfather, an itinerant Welsh boilermaker-turned-shipbuilder, had settled. At the age of twelve, young...
Everybody in Belfast remarked on the change that had come over Sir Basil this year. He was, you might say, blowing kisses at Dublin. His strongest statement was a passing reference to "those would-be wreckers of Ulster's constitution who have thrown themselves with fanatical zeal into a campaign which has touched new depths of mendacity." He added that these people had reached "a maximum of vilification and a minimum of veracity." Sir Joseph Davison, Grand Master of Orangemen, went even farther in the direction of peace. He left all mention of Catholics out of his written speech...
...heads at all were broken as the Orange parade swung through Belfast. Some blood, however, was shed. The main noise in an Orange parade is made by the Lambeg drummers, who wallop their four-foot-high Lambegs with cane whips 30 inches long. The noise, they say, is like that an elephant makes-but an elephant cannot make it staccato. A Lambeg drummer isn't doing anything at all until his wrists begin to bleed from smacking against the drum; when they see that Orange blood, the crowd, thinking of the Battle, always cheers...
...Sash Me Father Wore." TIME'S correspondent last week attributed the relative quiet of the celebration to "the desire of the Ulster Government to maintain the status quo, and to the shortage of whiskey." July 12, 1947 in Belfast was not entirely dry, however. As the parade made the turn by the block-long Arcadia Bar, many marchers took a short cut and a pint of Guinness, and joined the parade again as it stomped along singing The Sash Me Father Wore (which was orange, of course...