Consisting of mainly low plateaus and rolling hills, Northern Ireland is situated in the northeast part of the island of Ireland and is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, more commonly referred to as the United Kingdom or Great Britain. Northern Ireland is the smallest of the countries of the United Kingdom, and also contains the largest freshwater lake (Lough Neagh) in the UK. Also referred to as Ulster, Northern Ireland actually only contains six of the original nine counties that comprised this historical kingdom. Ulster holds a special importance in the mythological history of Ireland because the rulers and their champions played a prominent role in the rich Irish sagas of the middle Ages. More recently, the Government of Ireland Act was adopted in 1920, thereby creating North and South Ireland. Still today, political and religious conflicts continue, based on differences between Catholics and Protestants, Unionists and Nationalists. Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and found its most noted development occurring during the industrial revolution when the area emerged as a linen manufacturing region. Strengthened later by Belfast’s development into a shipbuilding and engineering city, residents can boast that their city was the building site of the famed Titanic. The reopening of the Grand Opera House in 1980 signposted Belfast’s emergence as a city of culture with special emphasis on music, as noted in the symphonies and orchestras found there.
From the navigator
In the morning, after picking up the pilot, we sail up the Belfast Lough (Bay) before reaching our dock. Belfast is a busy port, most known in the maritime world because the Titanic was build here, at the Harland and Wolff shipyard, as well as some of the past Holland America Line ships like the flagships Rotterdam IV (1908) and Statendam II (1914) and Statendam III (1929).
Consisting of mainly low plateaus and rolling hills, Northern Ireland is situated in the northeast part of the island of Ireland and is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, more commonly referred to as the United Kingdom or Great Britain. Northern Ireland is the smallest of the countries of the United Kingdom, and also contains the largest freshwater lake (Lough Neagh) in the UK. Also referred to as Ulster, Northern Ireland actually only contains six of the original nine counties that comprised this historical kingdom. Ulster holds a special importance in the mythological history of Ireland because the rulers and their champions played a prominent role in the rich Irish sagas of the middle Ages. More recently, the Government of Ireland Act was adopted in 1920, thereby creating North and South Ireland. Still today, political and religious conflicts continue, based on differences between Catholics and Protestants, Unionists and Nationalists. Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland and found its most noted development occurring during the industrial revolution when the area emerged as a linen manufacturing region. Strengthened later by Belfast’s development into a shipbuilding and engineering city, residents can boast that their city was the building site of the famed Titanic. The reopening of the Grand Opera House in 1980 signposted Belfast’s emergence as a city of culture with special emphasis on music, as noted in the symphonies and orchestras found there.
From the navigator
In the morning, after picking up the pilot, we sail up the Belfast Lough (Bay) before reaching our dock. Belfast is a busy port, most known in the maritime world because the Titanic was build here, at the Harland and Wolff shipyard, as well as some of the past Holland America Line ships like the flagships Rotterdam IV (1908) and Statendam II (1914) and Statendam III (1929).
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