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Belfast’s traffic problems are obvious even to Mickey Mouse - The Irish News view irishnews.com/opinion/belfas…
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◾️ Before leaving Belfast in January 1846, Frederick Douglass uttered the heartfelt words.. .. "Wherever else I feel myself to be a stranger, I will remember I have a home in Belfast." It was Thomas McCabe, the Presbyterian radical, abolitionist and United Irishman who kept slave ships out of Belfast, his actions would prevent the slave trade ever taking hold in Ireland. In 1786 he stormed into a meeting at the Assembly Rooms in Belfast......



