- The Bank Buildings is a five-storey, Grade B1 listed red Dumfries sandstone building located at 1-27 Castle Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The building is currently owned by Primark, and was used as their flagship store in Northern Ireland from 1979 until it was destroyed by fire on 28 August 2018. The original use of the building was as a bank.[Not correct. This is actually the third building on the site since that occupied by Waddell Cunningham - a competitior of the "Four Johns" ] Since the four founders of the bank all had the first name of John (Brown, Ewing, Hamilton and Holmes), the bank was called The Bank of the Four Johns.[This was a nickname for the bank, which was called the Belfast Bank - not connected to the later establishment of the same name]. By the turn of the 1800s the bank had collapsed and the buildings [Not this building] became the residence of the bishop of Down and Connor, Rev. Dr. William Dickson. The building was then converted into a shop in 1805. Also around this time, the area in front of the Bank Buildings was also used to execute criminals before this practice came to an end in 1816. The last three people to be hanged were weavers who had twice attacked the home of their employer, Francis Johnston, in an argument over the wages they had been paid. In 1853, the store was to become home to a wholesale drapery firm. [Originally Hawkins, Robertson & Co., the business changed its name to Robertson, Ledlie, Ferguson & Co Ltd on the death of Mr. Hawkins in 1878. The business was formed into a limited liability company in 1880.] Founded by businessmen William Robertson and Henry Hawkins (Waterford), J. C. Ledlie (Cork), and Robert Ferguson (Belfast), the business soon expanded and became a commercial department store. In 1900 the ground and first floors of the building underwent a major redesign. The architect W. H. Lynn allowed for large plate glass windows to be installed in the lower floors. The department store continued to operate on the first two floors whilst the upper floors were used as a warehouse for the wholesale side of the business. The building remained under the ownership of Robertson, Ledlie, Ferguson & Company until they were bought out by the House of Fraser group. The department store still continued to operate from Bank Buildings until Boots took over from House of Fraser. Boots was then forced to move out in 1975. On April 9, three bombs were detonated inside Bank Buildings. The resulting fire extensively damaged the building. Refurbishments were carried out in 1979 and after 18 months the new owners, Primark Stores Limited established a store. They remain the currently owners of the Bank Buildings.
association
- The de Borda Institute aims to promote the use of inclusive voting procedures on all contentious questions of social choice.
- Peter Emerson (born 1943) is a political activist in Northern Ireland. Born in Britain, Emerson's father was from County Cork, and his mother from Cheshire.[1] He served as a submariner in the Royal Navy, where he was promoted to first lieutenant. In 1970, he began teaching in Nairobi. He moved to Northern Ireland in 1975, living just off the Shankill Road, where he worked in a youth club.[2] There, he became active in the Ulster Liberal Party and also with Friends of the Earth. In 1980, he and Jennifer Fitzgerald were the leading founders of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Northern Ireland.In the 1980s, Emerson was also prominent in the New Ireland Group, and was an organiser of its 1986 "People's Convention". This inspired him to devote time to promoting consensus-based methods of voting, and during the 2010s he has been the director of the de Borda Institute, www.deborda.org
Company
- Pharmaceutical
- Norbrook Laboratories www.norbrook.com, boss Lord Ballyedmond (Edward Haughey, Ireland's richest man) died in helicopter crash in March 2014
industry
- maritime
people
- Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, PRS FRS (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Irishphysician, naturalist and collector noted for bequeathing his collection of 71,000 items to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum, the British Library and the Natural History Museum, London. He was elected to the Royal Society at the age of 25. Sloane traveled to the Caribbean in 1687 and documented his travels and findings with extensive publishings years later. Sloane was a renowned medical doctor among the aristocracy and was elected to the Royal College of Physicians by age 27. His name was later used for streets and places such as Hans Place, Hans Crescent, and Sloane Square in and around Chelsea, London - the area of his final residence - and also for Sir Hans Sloane Square in his birthplace in Ireland, Killyleagh.
- James Martin Pacelli McGuinness (Irish: Séamus Máirtín Pacelli Mag Aonghusa; born 23 May 1950) is an Irish republican Sinn Féin politician who was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, serving from May 2007 to January 2017. He was also Sinn Féin's unsuccessful candidate for President of Ireland in the 2011 election. A former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader, McGuinness was the MP for Mid Ulster from 1997 until his resignation in 2013. Like all Sinn Féin MPs, McGuinness practised abstentionism in relation to the Westminster Parliament. Following the St Andrews Agreement and the Assembly election in 2007, he became deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland on 8 May 2007, with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley becoming First Minister. On 5 June 2008 he was re-appointed as deputy First Minister to serve alongside Peter Robinson, who succeeded Paisley as First Minister. McGuinness previously served as Minister of Education in the Northern Ireland Executive between 1999 and 2002. On 9 January 2017, he resigned as Deputy First Minister as protest over the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal.
- Arlene Isabel Foster, PC, MLA (née Kelly; born 3 July 1970) is a Northern Irish politician who has been the Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party since December 2015. She also served as the First Minister of Northern Ireland from January 2016 until Martin McGuinness' resignation in January 2017. Foster is not permitted to remain in office as First Minister while a vacancy exists. She has also been the Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone since 2003. She previously served in the Northern Ireland Executive as Minister of the Environment (2007–08), Minister for Enterprise and Investment (2008–2015) and Minister for Finance and Personnel (2015–16).
devolution
- the good friday agrement in 1998 which established NI's devolved government was signed on the assumption of britain and Ireland's shared eu membership
Economy
- maritime
- When I was a young boy, Belfast was still the largest ship building center on earth. In the late 1960s, the British government invested in two gigantic gantry cranes called Goliath and Samson－at the time the largest such pieces of machinery in the world－to build super oil tankers. They still stand today as tourist attractions, looming 32 and 35 floors high over the city. But they were never used industrially. Not once. The Northern Irish Civil War (known with masterly understatement as "The Troubles") saw to that. The great shipyard that at its peak employed 35,000 workers became an industrial wasteland peopled only by ghosts. Even after peace finally returned to Northern Ireland, after 30 years of civil strife, the great complex on Queen's Island never recovered, never revived. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201908/20/WS5d5b2b8da310cf3e35566a64.html
people
- Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, PRS FRS (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Irishphysician, naturalist and collector noted for bequeathing his collection of 71,000 items to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum, the British Library and the Natural History Museum, London. He was elected to the Royal Society at the age of 25. Sloane traveled to the Caribbean in 1687 and documented his travels and findings with extensive publishings years later. Sloane was a renowned medical doctor among the aristocracy and was elected to the Royal College of Physicians by age 27. His name was later used for streets and places such as Hans Place, Hans Crescent, and Sloane Square in and around Chelsea, London - the area of his final residence - and also for Sir Hans Sloane Square in his birthplace in Ireland, Killyleagh.
- Sloane was born into an Ulster-Scotsfamily on 16 April 1660 at Killyleagh, a village on the western shores of Strangford Lough in County Down in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. He was the seventh son of Alexander Sloane (died 1666), agent for The 1st Earl of Clanbrassil (c. 1618-1659). Sloane's family had migrated from Ayrshire in the south-west of Scotland, but settled in east Ulsterunder King James VI and I. His father died when he was six years old.
- James Martin Pacelli McGuinness (Irish: Séamus Máirtín Pacelli Mag Aonghusa; born 23 May 1950) is an Irish republican Sinn Féin politician who was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, serving from May 2007 to January 2017. He was also Sinn Féin's unsuccessful candidate for President of Ireland in the 2011 election. A former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader, McGuinness was the MP for Mid Ulster from 1997 until his resignation in 2013. Like all Sinn Féin MPs, McGuinness practised abstentionism in relation to the Westminster Parliament. Following the St Andrews Agreement and the Assembly election in 2007, he became deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland on 8 May 2007, with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley becoming First Minister. On 5 June 2008 he was re-appointed as deputy First Minister to serve alongside Peter Robinson, who succeeded Paisley as First Minister. McGuinness previously served as Minister of Education in the Northern Ireland Executive between 1999 and 2002. On 9 January 2017, he resigned as Deputy First Minister as protest over the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal.
- Arlene Isabel Foster, PC, MLA (née Kelly; born 3 July 1970) is a Northern Irish politician who has been the Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party since December 2015. She also served as the First Minister of Northern Ireland from January 2016 until Martin McGuinness' resignation in January 2017. Foster is not permitted to remain in office as First Minister while a vacancy exists. She has also been the Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone since 2003. She previously served in the Northern Ireland Executive as Minister of the Environment (2007–08), Minister for Enterprise and Investment (2008–2015) and Minister for Finance and Personnel (2015–16).
devolution
- the good friday agrement in 1998 which established NI's devolved government was signed on the assumption of britain and Ireland's shared eu membership
Economy
- http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21640334-guns-mostly-silent-ulster-can-begin-deal-its-lamentable-economy-new-kind
innovation voucher programme run by Invest NI
- mentioned by secretary for innovation and technology yeung wai hung 21apr17 as comparison to hk's
- note SQW Ltd (SQW), as Lead Contractor, working with QA Research (QA), was appointed by Invest
Northern Ireland (Invest NI) in May 2014 to undertake an evaluation of the Innovation
Vouchers Programme (the Programme). The evaluation covers the period from the
Programme’s launch in May 2008 to February 2014. http://www.sqw.co.uk/insights-and-publications/evaluation-of-ni-innovation-vouchers/
Post brexit
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/16/martin-mcguinness-calls-for-special-eu-status-for-northern-ireland
- The Democratic Unionist Party has threatened to rethink its deal to prop up Theresa May in power if she compromises over the Irish border after Brexit. Sammy Wilson, one of the DUP’s 10 MPs, said the party would not accept any moves that would see Northern Ireland “treated differently than the rest of the UK”. The warning follows reports that further powers could be devolved to Belfast allowing rules in areas such as agriculture and energy to be aligned with the EU, rather than London.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dup-theresa-may-tory-deal-ireland-border-brexit-irish-border-northern-ireland-a8085046.html
history
- The Government of Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5 c. 67) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act's long title was "An Act to provide for the better government of Ireland"; it is also known as the Fourth Home Rule Bill or (less accurately) as the Fourth Home Rule Act. The Act was intended to establish separate Home Rule institutions within two new subdivisions of Ireland: the six north-eastern counties were to form "Northern Ireland", while the larger part of the country was to form "Southern Ireland". Both areas of Ireland were to continue as a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and provision was made for their future reunification under common Home Rule institutions. Home Rule never took effect in Southern Ireland, due to the Irish War of Independence, which resulted instead in the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the establishment in 1922 of the Irish Free State. However, the institutions set up under this Act for Northern Ireland continued to function until they were suspended by the British parliament in 1972 as a consequence of the Troubles. The remaining provisions of the Act still in force in Northern Ireland were repealed under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
uk
- independent investigation, reform in administration and police northern ireland case hkej 24jul19 shum article
Ireland
- 英國在脫歐問題上遇到一系列難題，當中一個便是北愛爾蘭與愛爾蘭的邊界問題，至今沒有明確的解決方案。愛爾蘭外長科文內日前提出，英國脫歐之後，北愛爾蘭可考慮借鑑香港模式，實行「一國兩制」。這位外長看似調侃，但對英國來說卻也是一個解脫。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171127/00192_001.html
innovation voucher programme run by Invest NI
- mentioned by secretary for innovation and technology yeung wai hung 21apr17 as comparison to hk's
- note SQW Ltd (SQW), as Lead Contractor, working with QA Research (QA), was appointed by Invest
Northern Ireland (Invest NI) in May 2014 to undertake an evaluation of the Innovation
Vouchers Programme (the Programme). The evaluation covers the period from the
Programme’s launch in May 2008 to February 2014. http://www.sqw.co.uk/insights-and-publications/evaluation-of-ni-innovation-vouchers/
Post brexit
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/16/martin-mcguinness-calls-for-special-eu-status-for-northern-ireland
- The Democratic Unionist Party has threatened to rethink its deal to prop up Theresa May in power if she compromises over the Irish border after Brexit. Sammy Wilson, one of the DUP’s 10 MPs, said the party would not accept any moves that would see Northern Ireland “treated differently than the rest of the UK”. The warning follows reports that further powers could be devolved to Belfast allowing rules in areas such as agriculture and energy to be aligned with the EU, rather than London.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dup-theresa-may-tory-deal-ireland-border-brexit-irish-border-northern-ireland-a8085046.html
- 據報英國及歐盟已就愛爾蘭邊界問題達成協議，北愛爾蘭在英國脫歐後仍可留在單一市場及關稅聯盟內，毋須設立「硬邊界」。歐洲理事會主席圖斯克形容英國脫歐談判取得重要突破。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171205/00180_018.html
history
- The Government of Ireland Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5 c. 67) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act's long title was "An Act to provide for the better government of Ireland"; it is also known as the Fourth Home Rule Bill or (less accurately) as the Fourth Home Rule Act. The Act was intended to establish separate Home Rule institutions within two new subdivisions of Ireland: the six north-eastern counties were to form "Northern Ireland", while the larger part of the country was to form "Southern Ireland". Both areas of Ireland were to continue as a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and provision was made for their future reunification under common Home Rule institutions. Home Rule never took effect in Southern Ireland, due to the Irish War of Independence, which resulted instead in the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the establishment in 1922 of the Irish Free State. However, the institutions set up under this Act for Northern Ireland continued to function until they were suspended by the British parliament in 1972 as a consequence of the Troubles. The remaining provisions of the Act still in force in Northern Ireland were repealed under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
uk
- independent investigation, reform in administration and police northern ireland case hkej 24jul19 shum article
Ireland
- 英國在脫歐問題上遇到一系列難題，當中一個便是北愛爾蘭與愛爾蘭的邊界問題，至今沒有明確的解決方案。愛爾蘭外長科文內日前提出，英國脫歐之後，北愛爾蘭可考慮借鑑香港模式，實行「一國兩制」。這位外長看似調侃，但對英國來說卻也是一個解脫。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171127/00192_001.html
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