Readers and St Patrick’s revellers, prepare yourself for a shock: Ireland was not actually the first place to host a St Patrick’s Day parade. We have the wonderful city of Boston, Massachusetts, to thank for starting that, now legendary, tradition. It was back in 1737 when a group of homesick Irish immigrants marched through the [...]

Here are a few of the random facts I knew about Belfast up until today – The Titanic was built there It’s home to the chiseled architectural beauty that is Queen’s University St Anne’s Cathedral has the largest Celtic Cross in Ireland The actor Liam Neeson and writer C.S. Lewis were born there (okay, in [...]