More features:

• Troubles Tourism

  
  A trip to Belfast and N. Ireland isn't without its curiosity value. We're talking 'The Troubles' - that quaintly named period of our history from the late '60s to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement when political conflict was at its height....

• Tracing Your Roots

  
  When millions of Irish people fled the famine and established communities in the USA and beyond, they were setting in motion the beginnings of a modern day phenomenon....

• George Best 1946-2005

  
  In a city with more than its fair share of famous sons, few have ever had the charisma of football legend George Best....

• Ich bin ein, er, Belfaster?

  
  What do you call people from Belfast? No, it's not the start of a bad joke, we really do want to know....

• Belfast Media

  
  Is it poetic justice, or a reflection of our thirst for news, that one of the world's media hotspots has itself spawned such a large number of media outlets? Northern Ireland has many daily, provincial and Sunday newspapers, numerous specialist magazines, two television broadcasters and four main radio stations....

• Robert Burns - the Belfast connection

  
  As the strains of Auld Lang Syne subside and we approach Burns Night on 25 January, how many of you are aware of the Scots Bard's Ulster connections?Robert Burns was born in Ayrshire on January 25 1759, six years after the publication of The Ulster Miscellany one of the first Ulster publications in the Scots language....

• 5th John Hewitt, Great Northern Irish Beer and Cider Festival

  The multi-award winning John Hewitt Bar and restaurant will be holding its fifth Great Northern Irish Beer & Cider Festival from Mon 1 -  Sun 7 July 2013....

• Art In The City

  
  Always eager to showcase local creative talent, we've put together what we consider to be the city's most artistic hotspots....

• How till spake Norn Iron (A guide to local phrases)

  As the old saying goes, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" and it's pretty much the same here in Belfast....

• NI by Railway: BELFAST - NEWRY

  
  Local scribe and railway enthusiast Colin McAlpin continues his Northern Irish railroad odyssey. BELFAST-NEWRYThe uniquely Irish method of building a railway - we’ll build a couple of miles, you build a couple of miles towards us and we’ll get a third party to fill in the gap - applied to the route between Belfast and the Northern Ireland-Republic of Ireland border city of Newry, as it did with all of the lines in the North....

• Where to find Belfast In Your Pocket

  
  The latest issue of Belfast In Your Pocket is generally available at the following fabulous locations....

• Belfast Visitor Pass

  
  Explore more of the city and save money into the bargain with this one, two or three day tourist discount card....

• Belfast Public Art: Not a Mural in Sight

  
  Here is a dozen of our favourites throughout the city... The Big Fish (aka Salmon of Knowledge): A 10m long, erm, fish whose shiny blue and white ceramic scales depict moments in Belfast's history....