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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Days5&6 -Derry, Londonderry, Ulster Folk Park, Belleek factory tour

These are a few from the Titanic Belfast museum - the city where the Titanic was built!
Made it to Belfast in officially Northern Ireland.  Sinn Fein won the election last week for the first time.  No more politics  Off to a Titanic dinner after an 8 hour day of tours, beautiful landscapes and we are here!!!  And we passed a cargo ship nammed Jenny Jones - first one was built in 1847 - 100 years before I was born and they kept the name!!


















Made it to Belfast in officialy Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein won the election last week for the first time. No more politics. Off to a Titanic dinner after an 8 hour day of tours, beautiful landscapes and we are here!!! ! And we passed a cargo ship named Jenny Jones - first one was built in 1847 - 100 years before I was born and they kept the name! These are a few from the Titanic Belfast museum - the city where the Titanic was built!

























Made it to Belfast in officialy Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein won the election last week for the first time.  No more politics.  Off to a Titanic dinner after an 8 hour day of tours, beautiful landscapes and we are here!!!  !  And we passed a cargo ship named Jenny Jones - first one was built in 1847 - 100 years before I was born and they kept the name!
These are a few from the Titanic Belfast museum - the city where the Titanic was built!

Treads of history continue to unfold on a tour of Derry; among its sites are St. Columb’s Cathedral, the Bloody Sunday Memorial marking the troubled events of 1972, and wall murals painted sine the peace process began in 1994 with messages refleting the cultural identities of local residents.  Your Derry visit ends with a walking tour of its old city walls, marking the only completely walled city in the British Isles.
From Derry, head to the Ulster American Folk Park which tells the stories behind three centuries of Irish emigrants who sought to make new lives in North America.



1845-1850 great famine, lost population; still losing younger population to other places, 300,000 allies trained here dring WWWII.  Enniskillen former island means “amalgamated” aka “changed”. Ex.  Change from public school to Catholid school;  **Lyte wrote the hymn “Abide With Me – one of my favorites and often and Schultz funerals – also wrote other humns.  Killen means “small church”.
**Ted Kennedy supported IRA.  Erne Integrated College accepts any or no religion and total increased.  “Bally” means places.  Bill Clinton’s mother was married 5 times.  Lough Erne only 5* hotel in Enniskillen so we lucked out again with Tauck..  “shireeves” means sheriff;  Horse hestnut trees, white flowers; hawthorne trees.  Kesh village population 1100




























































Made it to Belfast in officialy Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein won the election last week for the first time.  No more politics.  Off to a Titanic dinner after an 8 hour day of tours, beautiful landscapes and we are here!!!  !  And we passed a cargo ship named Jenny Jones - first one was built in 1847 - 100 years before I was born and they kept the name!
These are a few from the Titanic Belfast museum - the city where the Titanic was built!

















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