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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RC3CFF - Bushmills (From Irish Muileann na Buaise) is a village on the north coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Bushmills had a population of 1,295 in the 2011 Census.[3] It is located 60 miles (97 km) from Belfast, 11 miles (18 km) from Ballycastle and 9 miles (14 km) from Coleraine. The village owes its name to the River Bush and to a large watermill that was built there in the early 17th century. It is home to the Old Bushmills Distillery, which produces Irish whiskey, and is near the Giant's Causeway.
Bushmills in the early 20th century
Demography
Bushmills is classified as a village (population 1,0002,499) by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). On Census day (27 March 2011) there were 1,295 people living in Bushmills. Of these:
20.39% were under 16 years old and 21.47% were aged 65 and above
46.64% of the population were male and 53.36% were female
and
3.47% were from a Catholic community background and 92.90% were from a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' community background.
Places of interest
The village is best known as the location of the Old Bushmills Distillery. The distillery's products include the Bushmills Original and Black Bush blends, as well as the 10-, 12-, 16-, and 21-year-old Bushmills Single Malts. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of distilling starting in the area the distillery released a unique whiskey called the 1608 which included crystal malt. The distillery draws its water, not from the River Bush itself, but from a tributary known as Saint Columbs Rill.

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RGHXA1 - A street-level exterior view of the Derry Youth and Community Workshop (DYCW) building on Society Street in Derry / Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The red-brick façade features prominent signage reading Derry Youth and Community Workshop, along with vertical blue banners displaying the organisation's initials, clearly identifying the premises within the city centre streetscape.
DYCW is a long-established community organisation providing youth services, training, and community-based support across Derry. Buildings such as this play an important role in the city's voluntary and community sector, offering space for education, engagement, and social development initiatives within an urban environment.
Photographed in daylight, the image highlights the architectural character of Society Street and the visible presence of community organisations in the city centre. The photograph is suitable for editorial and commercial uses relating to youth services, community development, voluntary organisations, urban regeneration, and social infrastructure in Northern Ireland.
Location: Society Street, Derry / Londonderry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, BT48.

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R5PPEX - This image shows members of the Warrington Irish community taking part in a St Patrick's Day procession along Bridge Street in Warrington town centre in March 2023. Participants of all ages are seen walking together, many dressed in green and carrying the Irish tricolour, reflecting Irish national identity and cultural pride.
St Patrick's Day is widely celebrated across the UK, particularly in towns and cities with established Irish communities. Events such as this provide an opportunity for cultural expression, community visibility, and shared celebration, while also attracting wider public participation and support.
The procession moves through a busy shopping street, with local businesses and passers-by visible along the route, highlighting how Irish cultural celebrations are integrated into everyday town-centre life. The mix of families, older residents, and younger participants reflects the intergenerational nature of the Irish community in Warrington.
Photographed in daylight, the image documents contemporary Irish diaspora culture in Britain and is well suited for editorial use covering St Patrick's Day, community cohesion, migration history, local identity, and multicultural life in English towns.

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AERPNC - The mosaic was erected on St Chad's Circus , outside the City's Roman Catholic St Chad's Cathedral, in July 1968, at a cost of £5,000. When the road system was redeveloped in 2007 the mosaic was demolished. Key features, including the heads of some of the main figures, were retrieved and retained by Kenneth Budd's son Oliver.
In 2012 it was re-created using new materials. The new mosaic was erected in January 2013, in the city's Irish Quarter, on Floodgate Street in Digbeth, in reworked form, including the controversial addition of a new face, that of former Lord Mayor of Birmingham Mike Nangle, the city's first Irish Lord Mayor. The work was overseen by Budd's son, Oliver, who worked from his father's original drawings. The retained sections were not used as the colours had faded and would not match the new Smalti mosaic tiles. A formal unveiling took place on 23 February 2013.
Featured alongside Kennedy in the mosaic are his brother Teddy, the Seal of the President of the United States (using real gold), Martin Luther King Jr., American policemen and other figures.

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PM625G - Eclectic, historic pub offering beer & cocktails amid colourful paintings of Irish personalities.

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PM625P - Eclectic, historic pub offering beer & cocktails amid colourful paintings of Irish personalities.

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PM6293 - George Best (22 May 1946 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A highly skilful dribbler, Best is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.[2] He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968 and came fifth in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. Best received plaudits for his playing style, which combined pace, skill, balance, feints, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to get past defenders.
Born in Belfast, Best began his club career in England with Manchester United, with the scout who had spotted his talent at the age of 15 sending a telegram to manager Matt Busby which read: I think I've found you a genius. After making his debut aged 17, he scored 179 goals from 470 appearances over 11 years and was the club's top goalscorer in the league for five consecutive seasons.[3] He won two League titles and the European Cup with the club. His style of play on the field captured the public's imagination, and in 1999 he was on the six-man short-list for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century. He was also an inaugural inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
In international football, Best was capped 37 times for Northern Ireland between 1964 and 1977. A combination of the team's performance and his lack of fitness in 1982 meant that he never played in the finals of a major tournament. He considered his international career as being recreational football, with the expectations placed on a smaller nation in Northern Ireland being much less than with his club. He is regarded as one of the greatest players never to have played at a World Cup. The Irish Football Association described him as the greatest player to ever pull on the green shirt of Northern Ireland

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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HEEG4Y - Murals in Northern Ireland have become symbols of Northern Ireland, depicting the region's past and present political and religious divisions.
Belfast and Derry contain arguably the most famous political murals in Europe. It is believed that almost 2,000 murals have been documented since the 1970s. In 2014, the book, The Belfast Mural Guide estimated that, in Belfast, there were approximately 300 quality murals on display, with many more in varying degrees of age and decay. Murals commemorate, communicate and display aspects of culture and history. The themes of murals often reflect what is important to a particular community. A mural therefore exists to express an idea or message and could generally be seen as reflecting values held dear to that community.
In Irish republican areas the themes of murals can range from the 1981 Irish hunger strike, with particular emphasis on strike leader Bobby Sands
murals of international solidarity with revolutionary groups are equally common, as are those which highlight a particular issue, for example the Ballymurphy Massacre or the McGurk's Bar bombing. In working class unionist communities, murals are used to promote Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups such as the Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Volunteer Force and commemorate their deceased members. However traditional themes such as William III of England and the Battle of the Boyne, the Battle of the Somme and the 36th Ulster Division are equally common




