News from Belfast

“I was a child in the sixties
Dreams could be held through TV
With Disney and Cronkite and Martin Luther
Oh, I believed, I believed, I believed”

— “It’s a Hard Life
     Wherever You Go,”
     by Nanci Griffith

“Today we will witness
  not hype but history.”

— Martin McGuinness, of the
   republican and mainly Catholic
   Sinn Fein party, on today’s
   home rule ceremony in Belfast