General Collections highlights

Mary Robinson – How Universal are Human Rights?

The 2008 Amnesty Annual Lecture.

The 2008 Amnesty International Annual Lecture in Northern Ireland, with Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland.

Waves from Rathlin

Remembering Glanville and Marconi.

Over 100 years ago, Guglielmo Marconi demonstrated successfully the sending of signals over a distance without wire, hence the term 'wireless.' Before this time, ships had made themselves known to shore stations by...

Mark Thompson

Talking Ulster Scots

Mark’s hometown of Ballyhalbert in Co. Down proved to play a significant influence on his life, “everyday whenever we got out of bed you opened the curtains and on a clear day, you could see Scotland”. It was at th...

Muiris Ó Droighneáin – Múinteoir, Scoláire agus Gael

Agus plaic ghorm á nochtadh ag Ciorcal Staire Uladh le hurraim do Mhuiris Ó Droighneáin ag a sheantach ar Bhóthar an Ghleanna, labhraíonn muid le cuid dá theaghlach, chairde agus chomhghleacaithe faoi shaol agus faoi ...

Heritage Collections highlights

Rod Stoneman

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...

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...

Tura Arutura

Talking with the founder of Artfrique

Tura grew up in Chitungwiza in Zimbabwe during the pre-war period. He recalls it as being a “very colourful beautiful country. Very warm, very hot, it also reflects the nature of the people as well. They wear their he...

John Gray

Talking to the Linen Hall librarian

Bernard Conlon talks to John Gray about his work as a social historian, an activist in the civil rights movement, and former Librarian of the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. John’s parents left England for Northern ...