Recently, in an idle moment, I joined a Facebook closed group called Images and Memories of Old Northern Ireland Pre 2000. It proved riveting. What I didn’t realise was how deeply affected I would be by evidence of the destruction of Belfast, in particular, not by IRA bombs and civil unrest, but by the planners, property developers and commercial interests.
Belfast: a city bent on obliterating its past
Recently, in an idle moment, I joined a Facebook closed group called Images and Memories of Old Northern Ireland Pre 2000. It proved riveting. What I didn’t realise was how deeply affected I would be by evidence of the destruction of Belfast, in particular, not by IRA bombs and civil unrest, but by the planners, property developers and commercial interests.