The Invisible Artist

The Invisible Artist

An Coirnéal Cruthaitheach

An Coirnéal Cruthaitheach

May Blood

May Blood

A Century Later: The Working Class – Containing the Past

A Century Later: The Working Class – Containing the Past

Linda Bunting

Linda Bunting

SRD Melody Flute Band 2009

SRD Melody Flute Band 2009

Joanna McMinn

Joanna McMinn

Ná hAbair é, Déan é

Ná hAbair é, Déan é

Getting to Know You: Natty Wailer

Getting to Know You: Natty Wailer

Journeys & Destinations

Journeys & Destinations

Pilib O Runai

Pilib O Runai

Ulster Scots Festival 2007

Ulster Scots Festival 2007

General Collections highlights

Jonny Tiernan

Jonny Tiernan

A life in music

Jonny remembers his time spent at school as a turbulent experience. He was taken out of one school as he felt he was being victimised and at 16 Jonny left school and enrolled in a course called Quest. It meant he coul...

Journeys & Destinations

Journeys & Destinations

Documentary exploring the lived experience of mothers and daughters in three minority ethnic communities and how families interact between the generations in a multicultural society. Thirty six women from the Chine...

WRDA Lectures – Dr Myrtle Hill

WRDA Lectures – Dr Myrtle Hill

Pioneers, Protestors and Preachers

The second lecture, of the Anna Eggert Lecture Series, took place on 8th December and was delivered by Dr Myrtle Hill from Queen’s University who spoke on “Pioneers, Protestors and Preachers: Belfast’s Forgotten Women...

Interfaces 4

Interfaces 4

The interfaces of Belfast. Pt. 4.

Part four in a four part series on Interfaces in Belfast. This final episode examines the issues of investment and regeneration in Interface areas. With the Assembly established, politicians and community worker...

Heritage Collections highlights

Darren Ferguson

Darren Ferguson

Aid worker and music fan

Darren grew up in Glengormley. He recalls a time when bomb scares were common. “Me and my brother were fascinated when they brought out the robots to defuse these bombs. I have very clear memories of the police com...

A Century Later: Albert Haslett

A Century Later: Albert Haslett

A boy on the Shankill Road experiences the horrors of the Belfast Blitz, a night that would live in his memories forever. “As I grew up and grew older I thought it would eventually go out of my mind, but it w...

WRDA Lectures – Baroness May Blood

WRDA Lectures – Baroness May Blood

Factory floor to the House of Lords

The inaugural lecture of the Anna Eggert lecture series, organised by the WRDA.  Baroness May Blood was the speaker for the afternoon and delivered a biographical lecture entitled “From the factory floor to the House ...

Jennifer McNern

Jennifer McNern

Surviving a bomb blast

Marie Breen-Smyth, Associated Dean International at the University of Surrey talks to Jennifer McNern about her experiences of the violence of The Troubles. Jennifer was injured on March 4th, 1972, during a shoppin...