Father Desmond Wilson

Father Desmond Wilson

Joe Baker

Joe Baker

Neil Shawcross: A Portrait

Neil Shawcross: A Portrait

McGurk’s Bar Bombing – Loss of Innocence

McGurk’s Bar Bombing – Loss of Innocence

Helen Bell

Helen Bell

Pensioners Parliament

Pensioners Parliament

War Stories – Minesweeper

War Stories – Minesweeper

An Ghaeilge i nGéibheann? The Irish Language in Prison

An Ghaeilge i nGéibheann? The Irish Language in Prison

A Century Later: Ethnic Minorities in Northern Ireland – Identities and Shared Histories

A Century Later: Ethnic Minorities in Northern Ireland – Identities and Shared Histories

WRDA Lectures – Dr Myrtle Hill

WRDA Lectures – Dr Myrtle Hill

The Way I See It: Father Des Wilson

The Way I See It: Father Des Wilson

A Century Later: Mary Ann Quigley

A Century Later: Mary Ann Quigley

General Collections highlights

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...

Shpresa’s Birthday Party

Shpresa’s Birthday Party

This is a story about coming home to a place where you have never been before. Shpresa made a long journey from Kosovo to Belfast to find a home. Here she met friends, some of whom travelled to Belfast from othe...

Injured

Injured

Lived experiences from the Troubles.

The Wave Trauma Centre, with financial assistance provided by the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, commissioned a study and documentary in order to gain a better understanding of the lived experiences of ...

Albert Fry

Albert Fry

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...

Heritage Collections highlights

Kathleen Kelly

Kathleen Kelly

Teaching and community development

The ten years, Kathleen spent as a teacher in the primary school in North Queen Street, brought home to her the poverty in which the children she taught, lived. Originally from east Belfast, where her father was a ...

WRDA Lectures – Margaret Ward

WRDA Lectures – Margaret Ward

Lecture: the Ulster Suffragettes

A century ago, a passionate crowd packed the Ulster Hall to hear the leader of the Suffragette Movement, Emmeline Pankhurst demand votes for women. Leading feminist author Dr Margaret Ward returned to the same venue t...

Giros

Giros

Alternative drop-in centre in Belfast

Imagine a place of freedom and expression for young people, a place to eat at a reasonable price, a place to create art and play music. An alternative space for anyone who didn’t find the mainstream appealing. Welc...

Fergus O Hare (Part Two)

Fergus O Hare (Part Two)

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 ...