First Things RSS Feed - Sandra Czelusniak https://www.firstthings.com/author/sandra-czelusniak en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:52:59 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/sandra-czelusniak 60 The Transformation of Belfast https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/06/the-transformation-of-belfast https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/06/the-transformation-of-belfast Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Belfast, Northern Ireland. For many people outside the British Isles, that name evokes images of shootings, bomb explosions, terrified schoolchildren, and bitter sectarian conflict between the city’s Catholic and Protestant communities. Despite having a grandmother who was a Belfast native, my own exposure to the Northern Ireland conflict—and I suspect most Americans’ as well—was limited to U2 lyrics and the occasional passing news story about yet another IRA bombing. So it was with this relative ignorance of the whole situation that I arrived in Belfast in the fall of 2007 to begin a master’s program at Queen’s University.

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