The United Kingdom, with its research-intensive universities with excellent international networks, is a popular destination for German students and researchers. In addition, its universities are important cooperation partners for German universities and research organizations...
Public holidays There are a number of public holidays that do not have a fixed date, but are based on the time of Easter. Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first full...
Historic steam train from Downpatrick Churches and monasteries Belfast Cathedral (St Anne’s Cathedral) The Belfast Cathedral of the “Church of Ireland” was built between 1899 and 1932. In 1941 it was destroyed during the...
UNESCO World Heritage Site Giants Causeway (dam of the giant) west of Ballycastle around 40,000 evenly shaped, up to 12 m high and mostly hexagonal basalt columns form a kind of dam that runs...
Representations of Great Britain in Germany Northern Ireland is a self-governing part of Great Britain and is therefore represented by the “Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. The current...
Musician Van Morrison (born 1945), rock musician, singer and composer Gary Moore (born 1952), rock and blues guitarist Natural scientist Thomas Andrews (1813-1885) physicist and chemist. Thomas Andrews was born in Belfast in 1813...
Formalities, visas German, Swiss and Austrian nationals only need a passport or identity card to enter Northern Ireland. Issuing visas in Germany Visa department of the British Embassy British Consulate General Yorckstrasse 19 40476...
National borders Northern Ireland covers an area of 13,843 km² and shares a border with the Republic of Ireland of 360 km. Coastline Northern Ireland has a coast to the Atlantic Ocean with a...
Before the year 1000 The earliest documented settlement of the island began at the latest around 7000 BC by Mesolithic groups of hunters and gatherers who were probably immigrating from what is now northern...
Northern Ireland – Britain’s part of the Emerald Isle Northern Ireland, which is roughly the size of Schleswig-Holstein with an area of around 14,000 km², has belonged to the United Kingdom of Great Britain...