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Four poems.

‘”Like an Old Cathedral City”: Belfast Welcomes Queen Victoria, August 1849’,

Belfast, with its history of communal violence, is normally seen as lying outside the mainstream of nineteenth-century British urban development. The visit of Queen Victoria in 1849 suggests a more complex, less linear picture. What emerges is an urban identity in transition, in which aspirations to conform to an ideal of civic harmony temporarily overrode acute sectarian and political divisions, where pride in recent economic achievement sat uneasily alongside an awareness of the town’s newcomer status, and where an emerging sense of regional difference competed with a continuing assumption of Irish identity.

Trio Performance with 'Faint' at "Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival":Graphic Scores and Free improvisation: Canterbury, Kent

The programme contained a performance by the trio FAINT (Pedro Rebelo - Piano and instru- mental parasites, Franziska Schroeder - Saxophone and Steve Davis - Drums). The performance includes short electroacoustic works based on the trio's free improvisation and a performance of Rebelo's Cipher Series graphic scores.

The neoliberalisation of the Cathedral Quarter and its contestations

Over time Belfast has been well researched as a site of ethnosectarian conflict, segregation and fear see (Boal et al 1976) and (Gaffiken and Morrisey 2011). The study of socio-spatial patterns of ‘ethnocracy’ is useful, but this article will argue how it is equally important to understand local forms of urban restructuring in terms of global processes that are linked to neoliberalism. To better understand the neoliberal urbanisation of Belfast this article is organised into two parts. The first part will demonstrate how the Northern Ireland State has sought legitimacy in the free market as ‘therapy’ for the production of neutral socio-spatial formations such as the Cathedral Quarter. Secondly it will examine this performance of neoliberal urbanism, as it ‘actually exists’ and demonstrate how market-led renewal has been extended through the clustering and non-sectarian interests, ‘soft’ arrangements of urban governance, cultural re-branding strategies, economic development incentives, and the development of various flagship projects. Critically this place-based grounding of neoliberalism is useful, as it also allows for the contestations of neoliberal urbanism to become real rather than just theoretical. The second part of the article will draw attention to the responses of local, and sometimes marginal, interests that have looked to challenge, adapt and, at times, divert the extension of market-led renewal. To be clear, this article does not want to overstate the performance of such interests. Nor does it want to claim that they significantly impact or obstruct the wider neoliberal urbanisation of Belfast. Instead it is interested in their behaviours and their different methods of working to explore what may be constituted as ‘alternative’, at least in the locality of the Cathedral Quarter. By studying how and why these interests have responded to the extension of neoliberal urbanism over time, it may just be possible to provide a better platform to articulate what more progressive forms of urban resistance might look like.

Fragmentos de la vida y virtudes del V. Ilmo. y Rmo. Sr. Dr, Don Vasco de Quiroga, primer obispo de la Santa iglesia cathedral de Michoacán...

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Os mártires ingleses de San Tomaso di Canterbury em Roma : troféus da Contra-reforma

O ciclo de martírio na Igreja Inglesa do Colégio S. Tomas o di Canterbury, Roma, datado de 1583, ilustrou a história do Catolicismo Inglês desde os mártires primitivos até aos mártires executados durante os reinados de Henrique VIII e Isabel I. A maior parte deste grupo de mártires era jesuítas que morreram durante a Missão Inglesa que começou com a viagem de Edmund Campion até à sua pátria em 1580. O martírio de Campioné bem conhecido, sendo o mais proeminente ciclo ilustrado nas paredes do colégio. Existiam, todavia, muitos mais ciclos, O facto mais extraordinário é que estes mártires ingleses contemporâneos, que não tiveram qualquer eco hagiográfico, foram colocados na tradição dos mártires cristãos primitivos. Além disso, estes mártires foram celebrados como os novos “troféus” da Contra-Reforma, através dos quais a Igreja Católica esperava restaurar a fé católica na Grã-Bretanha. O presente artigo introduz alguns destes jesuítas, as suas vidas e a razão para o seu martírio.