@seidodge @TTsrfc @chippie1974 Genuinely surprised

@theirishstory @arisroussinos That's my point - migration within the UK wasn't just Donegal lads going off to pick potatoes in Scotland, it was a system of two-way flows. Neither Larkin nor Connolly were Belfast natives!

@arisroussinos Just one observation: historically, Irish nationalism long predates the late 19th Century cultural revival. The United Irishmen even predate the Act of Union. But I get your point about fraying at the UK's edges away from the metropolitan centre - we just got there first.

@arisroussinos I dunno if the online Census is searchable in terms of place of birth, but it'd be an interesting exercise. My gut feel is that migration into Belfast wasn't just from its Ulster hinterland.

@arisroussinos My all-time favourite is the guy who wrote "Atheist" on his form. Over it, some jobsworth civil servant wrote "Question not answered."

@fallon_donal Huge congrats!

@Tributes32 Thanks will check it out

@Tributes32 Did his people put in an MSP claim? Files have been released relating to two Belfast internees whose deaths were due to illness contracted on the Argenta or in Larne - the MSP authorities recognised it had been contracted on active service. He might be a third.

@MDABelfast

@QUBCommunities1 @MDABelfast @QUBEngagement @QUBResearchAHSS @ahrcpress @TNLComFund Great background to the photo on the top right! 😄

@Edward__Burke Thanks Ed. Must admit, I had to Google RAMR when I read the McCrea file - on seeing what it stood for, my first thought was that the British Army were doing combined arms long before Guderian!

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@arisroussinos BTW, I don't think SF is as far from the umbrella as it might like to imagine.

Wee bump for this. New blog post coming this Saturday, looking at violence between armed loyalists and British troops in west and east Belfast: "The Specials had been firing on the troops" Part 2

@CSBlenner Once had to walk home after a party in Tallaght all the way to Dun Laoghaire