{"id":2518,"date":"2010-12-02T10:12:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T09:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2010-12-02T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T09:18:06","slug":"belfast-birth-of-a-city-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2010\/12\/belfast-birth-of-a-city-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast – Birth of a City, out now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A unique new DVD telling the story of Belfast\u2019s early history is out now.\u00a0\u201cBelfast, Birth of a City\u201d travels through 8,000 years, exploring how the second largest\u00a0city on the island of Ireland has developed from an ancient ford over the river Lagan.<\/h2>\n
“As far as we know, there has never been anything produced like this before,” said local\u00a0historian Joe Curran. “Belfast people have a real love of history so we were surprised\u00a0when we began this project to discover that no one had done this before us.”<\/div>\n
The DVD was produced by local company, Belfast Bohemian Productions. The film\u2019s\u00a0director James Rea, and writer Joe Curran, worked for a year to put this fascinating\u00a0story together.\u00a0Using a combination of dramatised scenes, old photos and present day footage, Joe\u00a0expertly narrates the development of Belfast from its prehistoric origins through to the\u00a0beginning of the19th century and the Act of Union when Belfast was on the cusp of\u00a0becoming a major city.\u00a0The DVD describes Belfast\u2019s development against the dramatic backdrop of thePlantation of Ulster, the Glorious Revolution and the United Irishman’s 1798 rebellion.<\/div>\n
The film has a wealth of fascinating details on the lives of the early townsfolk and it also\u00a0sheds light on how the streets and entries in the oldest parts of the city came to be\u00a0named.<\/div>\n
\u201cPeople love to learn more about Belfast\u2019s colourful past. For example, there is now no\u00a0trace of the original Belfast Castle which was once a defensive stronghold for Norman\u00a0knights guarding an ancient, strategic ford over the river Lagan. Streets such as Castle\u00a0Place and Castle Lane echo the location of the old castle but this DVD actually shows\u00a0what the castle probably looked like and what happened to it.\u201d<\/div>\n
The DVD will shortly be available in Irish and Ulster Scots. Belfast Bohemian Productions plan to produce a second DVD continuing the history of Belfast from 1801\u00a0through the Victorian period up to 1888 when it finally became a city.\u00a0\u201cWe really want to encourage people to delve into the history of the city. The DVD isn\u2019t\u00a0meant to be an academic thesis but more an entertaining, informative insight into the<\/div>\n
early development of Belfast,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n
The DVD is available now; from: HMV, The Wickerman, The Belfast Welcome\u00a0Centre, Eason, The Ulster Historical Foundation, The Bookshop at Queens,\u00a0Belfast International Airport Tourist Information Centre.<\/div>\n
See website for further information and full details of stockists:<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.belfastbohemians.com<\/div>\n
Email: info@belfastbohemians.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A unique new DVD telling the story of Belfast\u2019s early history is out now.\u00a0\u201cBelfast, Birth of a City\u201d travels through 8,000 years, exploring how the second largest\u00a0city on the island of Ireland has developed from an ancient ford over the river Lagan. “As far as we know, there has never been anything produced like this … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[388,1280,1279,240,541,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}