Robert Ballagh: Talent in Solidarity

Robert Ballagh: Talent in Solidarity

Getting to Know You: Don Letts

Getting to Know You: Don Letts

Ag labhairt le Alex Hijmans

Ag labhairt le Alex Hijmans

The Happy Gordons

The Happy Gordons

Ballyoran Ulster Scots Fun Day

Ballyoran Ulster Scots Fun Day

Becoming Irish – Stories of an Indian Community

Becoming Irish – Stories of an Indian Community

Paul Gallagher

Paul Gallagher

Downpatrick Heritage Railway

Downpatrick Heritage Railway

Suitcase Stories

Suitcase Stories

Tommy Wilson

Tommy Wilson

Banquet: Suffragist Mural Unveiling

Banquet: Suffragist Mural Unveiling

WRDA Lecture Series – John Gray

WRDA Lecture Series – John Gray

General Collections highlights

The Insider – Yes, Minister

The Insider – Yes, Minister

An Insider story about housing issues in the Village including an interview with the then newly appointed Minister for Social Development, Margaret Ritchie. The housing campaign was conduced over several years from...

The Long Haul & The Kazoo Orchestra: Black Mountain Rescue in Belfast

The Long Haul & The Kazoo Orchestra: Black Mountain Rescue in Belfast

A local environmental protest.

On Saturday October 21st, 1995, activists from "Black Mountain Rescue" turned up at the premises of White Mountain Quarries protesting at the destruction and erosion of the Black Mountain. On their way to the quarr...

Shared Lives in Ballyclare

Shared Lives in Ballyclare

As part of a cross community initiative, older people from Ballyclare came together at the Town Hall to reminisce about their lives and times gone by and comment on how the world has changed around them. Stories ar...

Linda Bunting

Linda Bunting

Dealing with trauma

Marie Breen-Smyth, Associate Dean International, University of Surrey, talks to Linda Bunting about her husband Alex Bunting. Alex was injured in an explosion. Linda talks about the hardships she and her family have h...

Heritage Collections highlights

Hazel McCready

Hazel McCready

Marie Breen-Smyth, Associate Dean International, University of Surrey, talks to Hazel McCready, a former part time police officer who was injured whilst driving to work. Mother of one, Hazel McCready was a teacher ...

Bobby Foster

Bobby Foster

Highfield to Canada and back

“As a boy, Highfield was a fantastic place to grow up. We passed our time up the mountain doing the things that kids did. One of the highlights of the year was bonfire night, anything that grew on branches we were tak...

Helen Crickard

Helen Crickard

Redefining women’s roles in society

Helen grew up in a family of ten, five boys and five girls in Carrickfergus. “My early childhood in Carrickfergus was great, coming from a big family there was always something going on, we lived in a nice housing ...

Padraic Fiacc

Padraic Fiacc

The life of a poet

Poet Padraic Fiacc was born Patrick Joseph (Joe) O Connor in Belfast on Elizabeth Street in 1923. The First World War had ended and Padraic remembers that “everybody went half mad when the war was over, and my moth...