As long as Huttonian can remember-admittedly less as time gets more-he has believed that CS Lewis' Narnia was set in Norn Iron and specifically in the Mountains of Mourne. I could not find anyone else who semed to know this so it is good to read in the Guardian on Sunday, the Observer, (see 'Escape' section) that this is well known fact. Lewis, a Belfast man, and he apparently wrote to a friend 'That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.' A small dissimulation perhaps as I am sure that the heart of Narnia lies in the High Mournes-more spectacular far than the lower hills above Rostrevor. See images above. Somehow Norn Iron has been slow to adopt CS Lewis as one of their own-something perhaps to do with aa remark he made to afriend about wanting to deport all Ulstermen and repopulate with a 'populace of my own choosing' And perhaps he did in creating Narnia and they are all there swarming over the Mournes but in a parallel Six County Universe. The Norn Iron Tourist Board have belatedly produced a leaflet on the Narnia connection: www.discovernorthernireland.com giving places that inspired the author-less said about the people one wonders  ¶ 1:42 PM