Just back from a great evening at the Linen Hall Library.  Squashed into a tiny upstairs room, a capacity crowd sweltered happily for an hour to get the chance to listen to Alf McCreary (off of the Belfast Telegraph) tell the story of Titanic Port, his weighty tome covering the history of Belfast Harbour. Continue reading →

I know it isn’t cool to admit to liking the 1997 James Cameron Titanic movie, but one bit I’ve always loved is the sequence where the camera tracks through the Titanic’s engine room as the boilers are fired, the steam builds, the massive pistons start to pump and the ship powers out to sea.  There’s a kind of geeky, techy delight in lingering over all that mighty machinery, and the scene has a real dynamism and sense of movement. Continue reading →

Yesterday Sus and I were invited to ‘Haiti Lives’, the unveiling of a photography exhibition organised by Oxfam in the foyer of the Waterfront Hall. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti – it was humbling to realise how quickly it had slipped from memory in the space of one short year. Continue reading →

During the week I had the very exciting experience of going live on Radio Ulster for Wednesday’s Thought For The Day (all my previous Thoughts have been pre-recorded).   Continue reading →

Back at the start of 2010, I promised (here) to make a Dock movie at the start of each year, tracking the changes and developments of the TQ from one year to the next.  Sometimes change happens to gradually that we don’t stop, notice it and celebrate it – so these yearly vids are an attempt to have a “my how you’ve grown!” birthday party for the TQ at the start of each new year. Continue reading →