Tours
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Every Sunday from May until the end of September there are Northern IrelandTourist Board approved coach trips detailing the life of Belfast born author C S Lewis, famous for writing The Chronicles of Narnia. The 2.5 hour coach tour will leave the Linenhall Library, Donegall Square North at 2.00 pm and take you around Belfast to see places including his East Belfast home Little Lea, his school Cambell College, and Saint Mark's Church at Dundela. The Tour is Ticket only these can be bought at the Belfast Welcome Centre, 47 Donegall Place telephone 02890 246609
The summer Sunday tour will open up a world of adventure and imagination that will enthral and astound you; Lewis was born and grew up in Belfast and that is where the tour begins. It is here in the city of his birth that ‘Jack’ as he was known to his friends was first influenced; it was here that the seeds of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters and the Space Trilogy amongst a great many other works both fiction and non-fiction were sown in that young impressionable mind.
CS Lewis would be proud to have his story related by Sandy Smith. Sandy is a true story teller in the age old tradition of the bards of Ireland; he weaves the story of ‘Jack’ like a great maestro, a seanchaí. The seanchaí or storytellers of Ireland were held in the highest esteem and made use of a range of storytelling conventions, styles of speech and gestures that were peculiar to the Irish folk tradition and characterized them as practitioners of their art.
Lewis's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies over the years so if you are ambivalent about this great writer, this son of Belfast, then take this tour and be prepared to convert to admirer status if not to outright fan.
