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Carrickfergus
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Took the train to Carrickfergus, a Norman castle on the coast just north of Belfast. It's an impressive structure - the last of its kind standing, and a testimony to the harsh conditions of the middle ages. Judging from the doorways, I'd guess most of the occupants were a good foot shorter than I am, and the picture of daily life that was painted was pretty bleak. A scattering of mannequins left a pretty awful impression of the weaponry in use - death by crossbow must have been particularly miserable. A gaggle of schoolgirls, mostly ten or eleven year olds, descended on the place just as we arrived - they were adorable, and frazzled their tour guide, whose accent I had trouble keeping up with. (I've been finding the working class Belfast accent nearly incomprehensible, much more so than anything I've heard in the Republic, rather more like the EastEnd accents in London - they talk fast, and sound like they have marbles in their cheeks).
We got back to Belfast in time to go to class - a brilliant overview of Ian Paisley's influence on modern politics in the North that I enjoyed a lot.
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