Belfast Walking Tours

08/06/2026

It was a pleasure to show this cosmopolitan group of educators from the Alliance for Conflict Transformation around Belfast on our themed "Pack Up Your Troubles" Walking Tour.

The Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT) is a non-profit organization that empowers people to resolve conflict and build peace. The organisation has over 20 years of experience promoting conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

ACT was established in 1999 by an alliance of skilled professionals who have conducted conflict transformation and peacebuilding projects in over 40 countries.

This tour explains the historical context of the conflict here and it's roots. Where and why the 'troubles' started, with a focus on the path to peace, why this conflict lasted so long, the underlying reasons, the peacemakers, political milestones and the transformation of Belfast since the Good Friday agreement in 1998.

31/05/2026

19/05/2026

09/05/2026

"Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight..."

David McKenna will star alongside Ciarán Hinds, Daniel Craig, Meryl Streep and other huge stars in the C.S Lewis classic. ❤️👏👏👏

It is set to be released in cinemas and on streaming in early 2027 🍿

25/04/2026

The story of the Caisson Gate (beside Nomadic) at Hamilton Dry Dock, Queens Road.

21/04/2026

This morning's tour with this fantastic group from University College Absalon, Denmark 🇩🇰 combined 2 themes 'Art in the Heart' and 'Pack Up Your Troubles'. We met at the International Hostel, Donegall Road and firstly explored some of the magnificent world class murals around Linen Quarter

Our walk took us into West Belfast (Falls Road, Shankill Road, Peace Walls) finishing off at Belfast City Hall

If you would like us to bespoke a walking tour for your group we can combine various themes for different interests

19/04/2026

It was a pleasure yesterday to walk with this fantastic group of people on our "Pack Up Your Troubles" Tour as a fundraiser for Su***de Awareness, Darkness into Light Hannahstown .

Sometimes we forget how far Belfast has come on our own journey from Darkness into Light. While this tour is inevitablely dark we focus more on the path to peace, why this conflict lasted so long, the underlying reasons, the peacemakers, the political milestones and the transformation of Belfast since the Good Friday agreement in 1998.

Yesterday's tour was a collaboration with Lee who was a former British soldier with the Staffordshire Regiment with tours of duty in Fermanagh, South Armagh and West Belfast. It was fascinating to hear his perspective as a young man being posted to NI and his thoughts on the conflict now
Thanks to Martin Fegan for organising and everyone that came along Peter Marshall Jim Donnelly Brennan Anto Eileen Brenda Murphy Laura Campbell

17/04/2026

15/04/2026

Titanic Stories

Isidor and Ida Straus were directed to lifeboat No 8 however, Isidor, a congressman and the Co-owner of Macy's department store, New York refused to get in before any of the women and
children. When Mr. Straus urged his wife to board the lifeboat, she refused, saying:
"We have lived together for many years, where you go, I go'

Ida then gave her fur coat to her maid Ellen saying she had no further use for it They were last seen standing on the deck of the ship, arm-in-arm as the ship foundered. Ida's body was never recovered (97% of the women in first-class survived). The plaque above in Macy's Department Store remembers them.

A peculiar coincidence was that Mr. Straus's favourite horse Bess was found dead in her stable on the same day Titanic claimed the lives of Isidor and Ida. The vet could find no medical for this