Belfast Exposed 30th Anniversary

Belfast Exposed 30th Anniversary

John Kindness – Retrospective Exhibition

John Kindness – Retrospective Exhibition

A Century Later: Wesley Whyte

A Century Later: Wesley Whyte

Two Door Cinema Club

Two Door Cinema Club

WRDA Lectures – Margaret Ward

WRDA Lectures – Margaret Ward

Belfast Integration & Participation Project

Belfast Integration & Participation Project

Fergus O Hare

Fergus O Hare

McGurk’s Bar Bombing – Loss of Innocence

McGurk’s Bar Bombing – Loss of Innocence

Mary Duffy: Unarmed & Dangerous

Mary Duffy: Unarmed & Dangerous

Cuideachta ó Thuaidh le John Spillane

Cuideachta ó Thuaidh le John Spillane

Art and Conflict

Art and Conflict

Ag labhairt le Alex Hijmans

Ag labhairt le Alex Hijmans

General Collections highlights

Sharing Space in South Belfast – Regeneration in Shared Spaces

Sharing Space in South Belfast – Regeneration in Shared Spaces

South Belfast communities. Pt. 4.

The fourth programme in the Sharing Space series explores the issue of redeveloping areas to ensure an inclusive community. It considers how difficult the process of sharing and the renegotiation of public sp...

General Fiasco

General Fiasco

KOTJ invited Owen and Enda of General Fiasco into the NvTv Studios for an exclusive acoustic session. The guys chat to Jonny Tiernan (AU magazine) about their recent success and perform three songs including ...

Interfaces 2

Interfaces 2

The interfaces of Belfast. Pt. 2.

Part two of a four part series looking at the Interfaces of Belfast. This episode examines how the conflict has impacted on the wave of youth violence at interfaces. Community leaders talk about the different...

The A Centre or the Lost Tribe of Long Lane

The A Centre or the Lost Tribe of Long Lane

A magnet for young punks.

November 1981: the A Centre was established as an alternative cultural space in Belfast city centre and ran on Saturday afternoons. Organised by the Belfast Anarchist Collective, the centre soon became a magnet for yo...

Heritage Collections highlights

The Rape and Plunder of the Shankill Revisited

The Rape and Plunder of the Shankill Revisited

Shankill Road history

Traumatic change came to the inner city communities of Belfast in the 1970s with large scale redevelopment, ring roads planned to encircle the city and whole communities being wiped away by the bulldozer. One of those...

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 ...

Ruth Taillon

Ruth Taillon

Women’s rights and social work

Growing up in post WWII Canada, Ruth left home at an early age: “I left home at a very early age following the hippy trail. I was very interested in music and it was exciting at the time. I quickly got involved with t...

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...