 | Life in Matakan Village, New Ireland Province, PNG Very short video of life in Matakan village of the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea. March 2008. |
 | Discover New Ireland From the Papua New Guinea Tourism Authority this video gives a comprehensive tour of New Ireland Province and it's amazing attractions. |
 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA Albatross Passage Located near New Ireland Province town of Kavieng, this big fish site has lots of action. Filmed by award wining cinematographer Stuart Ireland, www.calypsoproductions.com.au . Contact Lissenung Resort Kavieng to dive here. |
 | Bermuda Wall PNG Located near New Ireland Province town of Kavieng, this wall has lots to see. Filmed by award wining cinematographer Stuart Ireland, www.calypsoproductions.com.au . Contact Lissenung Resort Kavieng to dive here |
 | A walk through Matakan village Walking through Matakan Village on the West Coast of the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea. |
 | Baudisson Bay PNG Located near New Ireland Province town of Kavieng, this wall has lots to see. Filmed by award wining cinematographer Stuart Ireland, www.calypsoproductions.com.au . Contact Lissenung Resort Kavieng to dive here |
 | Ireland - Divided by an illegal border http://irishrepublican.net The Irish Border cuts the island of Ireland in two. On one side is the Republic of Ireland, On the other is Northern Ireland a british occupied province. The "six counties" as its known, was created during the british withdrawal from Southern Ireland in 1921 following a violent war with the IRA. Most british settlers in Ireland were moved into the newly created northern state. The borders of the new statelet were made to ensure that the british settlers outnumbered the native Irish by 2 to 1. In 1969 a new conflict kicked off when the british suppressed the Irish civil rights movement which resulted in state wide rioting. In 1972 the british army shot and killed 14 unarmed civil rights protesters in Derry City, a week later and the illegal state was in the midst of a fully fledged guerrilla war, with the IRA inflicting heavy casualties on british forces. By 1994 it became clear that the IRA could not force a british withdrawal from the province and that the british could not defeat the IRA. The result was a political agreement in 1998 which granted the Irish some say in how the occupied territory was run. However today the illegal border remains. |
 | Life in the village Pictures taken in Matakan villgae in 2005 |
 | Frost over the World - David Trimble - 21 Mar 08 Ten years ago the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Northern Ireland and a new future was set up for the troubled province. One of the main architects of the agreement, recent joint winner of the Nobel Peace prize and Northern Ireland's first minister, David Trimble, joins Sir David this week to discuss the agreement. |
 | Ulster A short video about the ancient Irish province of Ulster. 'Ulster' is often used incorrectly as a synonym for 'Northern Ireland' - a state set up by the British based on a religious headcount. When Ireland was one nation it voted overwhemly for independence from Britain. A Unionist minority living in the north eastern part of Ireland did not want independence so the British government tried to keep hold of their slipping empire by partitioning the country giving the Unionist minority their own state. The British government, ignoring the democratic right of the Irish people to national self determination, enforced this new state by a threat of an "immediate and terrible war" Unionists were given the chance to control all 9 counties of Ulster in this new state but rejected 3 counties because in their view a 9 county Ulster contained to many catholics. Ulster has an Irish Nationalist majority In Ulster - Co.Donegal nationalist majority Co.Fermanagh nationalist majority Co.Cavan nationalist majority Co.Tyrone nationalist majority Co.Monaghan nationalist majority Co. Derry nationalist majority Co.Down (south) nationalist majority Co.Armagh (south) nationalist majority Belfast City - Nationalist majority Derry City - Nationalist majority Armagh City - Nationalist majority Newry City - Nationalist majority Antrim is the only county unionists now dominate, 1 county out of 9 in Ulster 1 county out of 32 in ireland Ulster says NO to British rule This video was made as a video respnse to a video 'loyal ulster' made by rulebritannia1 who refused to allow it to be posted as a response to his. Afraid of the truth probably - http://youtube.com/watch?v=DBefhuPDjGU The song is Caoineadh Cu Chulainn (Lament of Cu Chulainn ) |
 | Happy St. Patrick's Day The day of Saint Patrick. About: Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá 'le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa 385--461 AD), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17. The day is the national holiday of Ireland. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Montserrat, and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. In the rest of Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday. It became a feast day in the Roman Catholic Church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding in the early part of the 17th century, and is a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland. The date of the feast is occasionally moved by church authorities when March 17 falls during Holy Week; this happened in 1940 when Saint Patrick's Day was observed on April 3 in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and happened again in 2008, having been observed on 15 March. March 17 will not fall during Holy Week again until 2160. Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated worldwide by Irish people and increasingly by non-Irish people (usually in Australia and North America). Celebrations are generally themed around all things Irish and, by association, the colour green. Both Christians and non-Christians celebrate the secular version of the holiday by wearing green or orange, eating Irish food and/or green foods, imbibing Irish drink (such as Guinness) and attending parades. The St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin, Ireland is part of a five-day festival; over 500,000 people attended the 2006 parade. The largest St. Patrick's Day parade is held in Chicago and it is watched by over 2.5 million spectators. The St. Patrick's Day parade was first held in Boston in 1761, organized by the Charitable Irish Society. New York's celebration began on 18 March 1762 when Irish soldiers in the British army marched through the city. The predominantly French-speaking Canadian city of Montréal, in the province of Québec has the longest continually running Saint Patrick's day parade in North America, since 1824; The city's flag has the Irish emblem, the shamrock, in one of its corners. Ireland's cities all hold their own parades and festivals, including Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Derry, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick, and Waterford. Parades also take place in other Irish towns and villages. Other large parades include those in Savannah, Georgia, New London, Wisconsin (which changes its name to New Dublin the week of St. Patrick's Day), Dallas, Cleveland, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Coatbridge, Jackson, Mississippi, Boston, Houston, Chicago, Cincinnati,Kansas City, Rolla, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Denver, St. Paul, Sacramento, San Francisco, Scranton, Seattle, Butte, Detroit, Toronto, Vancouver, Syracuse, Newport, Holyoke and throughout much of the Western world. The parade held in Sydney, Australia is recorded as being the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. As well as being a celebration of Irish culture, Saint Patrick's Day is a Christian festival celebrated in the Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, and some other denominations. The day almost always falls in the season of Lent. Some bishops will grant an indult, or release, from the Friday no-meat observance when St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday; this is sometimes colloquially known as a "corned-beef indult". When 17 March falls on a Sunday, church calendars (though rarely secular ones) move Saint Patrick's Day to the following Monday—and when the 17th falls during Holy Week (very rarely), the observance will be moved to the next available date or, exceptionally, before holy week. In many parts of North America, Britain, and Australia, expatriate Irish and ever-growing crowds of people with no Irish connections but who may proclaim themselves "Irish for a day" also celebrate St. Patrick's Day, usually with the consumption of traditionally Irish alcoholic beverages (beer and stout, such as Murphys, Beamish, Smithwicks, Harp, or Guinness; Irish whiskey; Irish coffee; or Baileys Irish Cream) and by wearing green-coloured clothing. 2007 marked the first annual St. Patrick's Day parade and festival in the Scottish city of Glasgow. |
 | Google/OpenSocial's director of engineering David Glazer While at Bebo's launch event yesterday in San Francisco, I had a chance to catch up with David Glazer, the director of engineering at Google who is overseeing the evolution of the OpenSocial framework that the company announced on November 1, 2007. You can see the interview in the attached video (above). Bebo claims to be the third largest social network in the world behind MySpace and Facebook and also claims to be the most popular social network in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. Glazer's attendance to the Bebo event was particularly interesting given that one of Bebo's key messages from yesterday's launch was how applications that are written to run on FaceBook will run without any recoding on Bebo. The FaceBook developer platform is by no means a standard in terms of programmable social networks. But Bebo's choice to be API-compatible with FaceBook in many ways proves why a standard for interoperability between social networks (interoperability of the sort that's the supposed province of the OpenSocial framework) can be important. For more on this, visit: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=939 |
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