From England to Scotland

After the ILA conference ended in Hull, I took the train up northern England and across Scotland to catch the ferry to Belfast in Northern Ireland. The Irish School of Ecumenics maintains a campus in both Dublin and Belfast, and I was on my way to meet my advisor, Dr. David Tombs, at the ISE house in Belfast. So, as you can see on the black line on the map, I needed to travel from Hull to York to Newcastle to Edinburgh to Glasgow to Stranraer, which is where the ferry departs for Belfast.



York, England



The North Sea


Berwick-upon-Tweed, England



The University of Glasgow











The Scottish countryside on the way to Stranraer, Scotland




Stranraer, Scotland






From Stranraer, Scotland I was able to catch the ferry to Belfast, Northern Ireland.

From the Netherlands to England

After our visit to The Hague, I left on the commercial ferry "The Pride of Rotterdam" for Hull, England in order to attend the conference of the International Law Association. P&O Ferries provide daily overnight ferry services to Rotterdam that are worked by the twin ferries "Pride of Rotterdam" and "Pride of Hull," the largest ferries operating from the United Kingdom.







The city is a major port, and sits along the coast where the River Hull meets the North Sea. It has a long maritime history, first as a fishing and whaling centre, and now as a busy commercial port. However, the commercial docks are removed from the city centre, which has a lovely harbor for small boats and is quite beautiful.






The conference of the International Law Association was sponsored by the University of Hull, and held at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) which is located in a listed Victorian building in the historic Old Town in Hull’s city centre and is next to Wilberforce House, William Wilberforce’s birthplace.






I enjoyed my time in Hull, which is a truly beautiful city.

St. Columba's Marianist Community

During my recent stay, Bro. Jim Contadino, S.M. took me and Sue Buckley (a local lay Marianist) out for lunch and to see some Irish history:








Here are some pictures of St. Columba’s Marianist Community, Church Avenue, Ballybrack, Co. Dublin: