So apparently there is a #Theatre in #Belfast#Maine that closed due to the owners retiring and there’s a community group working to buy it to reopen it.
Some more on the motte I posted pictures from. It was built in the 12th century. So over 800 years ago.
"A church, fort and moat were constructed in the 12th century by the Anglo-Normans. During an invasion by Edward Bruce of Scotland from 1315-1318 the church and fort were destroyed.”
You get a new appreciation of the number of trees there are in your neighbourhood when you climb to the top of the local ancient motte and are above them. See pictures.
@coffeepine Yeah. It's transformed into Moat Park for the one I took the picture from. But a moat is more widely known as a water-filled trench, so I went with the more archaic motte for a mound.
"A church, fort and moat were constructed in the 12th century by the Anglo-Normans. During an invasion by Edward Bruce of Scotland from 1315-1318 the church and fort were destroyed.”
On 7th May 1981 an estimated 100,000 people attended the funeral of Bobby Sands (Roibeárd Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh) in Belfast. The size of the crowd reflected the impact the hunger strike was having on the Nationalist community in Northern Ireland.
I had a book out just last week, The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798. It tells stories of about 20 northern Protestants, whose politics are a bit different to the norm.