Belfast Mela 2010
The Belfast Mela returned to the Botanic Gardens for it's biggest event to date. Featuring a huge collection of artists, such as Eternal Taal, Desi Brave Hearts and Ulfah Collective, who are a Muslim Gospel Choir, ...
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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...
The Belfast Mela returned to the Botanic Gardens for it's biggest event to date. Featuring a huge collection of artists, such as Eternal Taal, Desi Brave Hearts and Ulfah Collective, who are a Muslim Gospel Choir, ...
Irish language education
This film is subtitled. When Fergus was working in St Thomas’s school, the wife of the editor of the Andersonstown News, Áine Mac Aindreasa asked if he would teach a science class in the new Irish secondary school ...
David Hyndman talks to Rod Stoneman the former Deputy Editor of Independent Film & Video at Channel 4 and former CEO of the Irish Film Board, about his childhood in Devon, his participation in grassroots avant-gar...
WW2 & the trade union movement
After a pleasant childhood spent in Delaware Street on the Ravenhill Road in east Belfast, Billy entered the world of work in the post office as a telegraph messenger at a tender age, “I started at the age of 14 years...
Lives affected by the Troubles
Interviews from those whose lives were affected by the Troubles. Alan McBride Alan lost his wife and father-in-law in the Shankill bomb in October 1993, murdered by the IRA. “I’ve been hurt and damaged, I’ve...
Engineering and the Irish Language
Albert was born during the Second World War and grew up in a family of five in North Queen Street, close to Belfast City Centre. “My main memory is soldiers, soldiers, soldiers. Another main memory is prisoners from G...
Social and economic justice
Denis’s scholarly interests are in social movements, the sociology of economic change, industrialisation and transnational corporations. Denis was brought up in the middle of the New Mexico desert and remembers a c...
Northern Visions’ archive comprises works that are derived from its activities as a Channel 4 franchised workshop producing films for broadcast television since 1986, its activities as an Ofcom licensed local television broadcaster since 2002 and a collection of material spanning the years 1930-1980, which has been donated by the founders and friends of Northern Visions.
The majority of our archives focus on Northern Irish community and social life and Belfast in particular.
The Special Collection “Our Generation” sets out to document the reminiscences and insight of people, who in a myriad of ways, sought to build positive structures, resources and services in the community. Not so much a hidden heritage, more an unrecorded one of a generation of people who tried new ideas and new ways of engaging others to effect change and build a modern society.
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