Sharing Space in South Belfast – A Story of Three Working Class Communities

Sharing Space in South Belfast – A Story of Three Working Class Communities

Waves from Rathlin

Waves from Rathlin

The Secret’s Out

The Secret’s Out

Shankill War Memories

Shankill War Memories

The Great Cave Hill Right of Way Case – In Conversation with John Gray

The Great Cave Hill Right of Way Case – In Conversation with John Gray

It Makes You Want To Spit: Punk in Ulster

It Makes You Want To Spit: Punk in Ulster

The Insider – Yes, Minister

The Insider – Yes, Minister

Saving Caroline

Saving Caroline

John Scott

John Scott

War Stories – The Despatch Rider & The Wren

War Stories – The Despatch Rider & The Wren

Ireland’s First Video Diary – Circus Exposé

Ireland’s First Video Diary – Circus Exposé

Dawn Of The Ulster Scots

Dawn Of The Ulster Scots

General Collections highlights

Neil Shawcross: A Portrait

Neil Shawcross: A Portrait

The artist Neil Shawcross.

Neil Shawcross (born March 15, 1940) is an artist born in Lancashire, England who has lived in Northern Ireland since 1962. Primarily a portrait painter, his subjects have included novelist Francis Stuart, football...

The School Trip

The School Trip

An inventive and quirky exploration of what the future might hold for a young person leaving school with a disability, in terms of employment, finding a home, maintaining friendships, relationships and a social life w...

Two Door Cinema Club

Two Door Cinema Club

Studio session from alt-pop band Two Door Cinema Club. Although the band are still in school it hasn't stopped them becoming on of the most popular acts around. Regular host Jonny Tiernan invited AU Mag colleague a...

Getting to Know You: K’Naan

Getting to Know You: K’Naan

"The Dusty Foot Philosopher"

K'Naan the artist popularly known as "The Dusty Foot Philosopher". K'naan was born Keinan Abdi Warsame in 1978. He is a Somali Canadian poet, rapper, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist. He rose to prominence w...

Heritage Collections highlights

Annie Armstrong

Annie Armstrong

Tales from lower Springfield

Annie grew up in the lower Springfield area of west Belfast, a working class area of factories and mills, one of which was James Mackie & Sons or Mackies as they were known locally, a textile machinery and enginee...

Catherine Couvert

Catherine Couvert

Just Books and Women's News

Originally from France, Catherine grew up on a small farm. She remembers her childhood as a happy one, though living conditions were sparse. “Until I was ten, we lived in a house with one kitchen and one bedroom, a...

Mark Ervine

Mark Ervine

Talking to the mural artist

Mark’s childhood was spent growing up in the Woodstock and Ravenhill areas of east Belfast, a socially deprived area of the city, a loyalist community and one where as Mark explains  ‘There was a great sense of commun...

The Law Centre

The Law Centre

The story of NI's Law Centres

The Law Centre NI was set up in the early 1970s by a dedicated group of solicitors to help those who suffered social inequalities. “It was about using the law as one aspect of a much broader campaign involving tena...