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Belfast City Council: Shared History - Different Allegiances, 1912 - 1914

12 January 2021

Belfast City Council: Shared History - Different Allegiances, 1912 - 1914

Over the period of the Decade of Anniversaries, Belfast City Council has developed a programme that each year emphasises aspects that marks events of that particular year that shaped Northern Ireland and Ireland a century ago.

Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 1920-23

12 January 2021

Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 1920-23

This project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to explore the historical context of the partition of Ireland and resulting inter-communal violence in the 'two Irelands'. A series of podcasts based on lectures delivered at Queen's was made available on the...

Commemoration Through Poetry and Verse

12 January 2021

Commemoration Through Poetry and Verse

Over a series of four workshops we worked with a group of women from North and West Belfast to look at the First World War through poetry written by men and women poets about that era.

Entwined Histories

12 January 2021

Entwined Histories

Entwined Histories began in 2012 with a project to commemorate the signing of the Ulster Covenant. Following the success of this pilot, Co-operation Ireland continued the series, with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the reconciliation fund, with a further...

North West PEACE III Partnership Decade of Commemorations Programme

23 December 2020

North West PEACE III Partnership Decade of Commemorations Programme

Remembering the Future Lecture Series

12 January 2021

Remembering the Future Lecture Series

The period 2012 -2023 marks a number of significant political events which have shaped the sense of British and Irish identity in the 20th century. The Community Relations Council (CRC) and the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) joined together for a series of lectures and events with an accompanying...

Teaching Divided Histories

12 January 2021

Teaching Divided Histories

This project is developing an online digital resource for teachers to access and a programme of support and training for teachers to enable them to utilise it effectively with students at Key Stage 3 in Northern Ireland and students in transfer year in the Border Counties.

The Junction: Laura Gailey Film

12 January 2021

The Junction: Laura Gailey Film

This short original film is about Laura Gailey, the only woman named on the War Memorial in the Diamond in Derry/Londonderry. Laura Gailey was a resident of the city who became a volunteer nurse tending the war-wounded in Liverpool during WWI. ...

We Were Brothers

12 January 2021

We Were Brothers

‘We Were Brothers’ is a project comprised of a play with accompanying book, DVD, website and school/community outreach programmes which focuses on the shared history of nationalists and unionists who fought together in the British uniform during WWI. ...