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Will the Beat Initiative be able to bring a large number of people in the community together to perform artistically on a cold winter's evening on the streets of Belfast? Northern Visions went along to the Beat Ini...
How do we remember and how should Northern Ireland remember its recent past.? With an estimated 40,000-50,000 people injured during the Troubles and 3,700 killed, Northern Irish society still cannot find consensus ...
Experiences of looking for justice
Marie Breen-Smyth the Associated Dean International at the University of Surrey talks to Thomas Ward. After being laid off from his job in London, Tommy returned to Derry to visit his family before heading back to ...
June Cole talks about being one of the band of female pilots who aided the war effort during World War 2. June was born in 1921, in London and by the age of 20 she had left her work as a Red Cross nurse in order to jo...
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...
Race relations in NI
Born in northern Nigeria, in Zaria, where he grew up, Alfred has lived in Northern Ireland for twenty years. It was the offer of a job, which brought Alfred to Belfast in the early 1990s. “I was offered a job in Ph...
Community development in W. Belfast
Father Wilson grew up in the mixed community Ormeau Road area in south Belfast. “Belfast, to us, was an amazing place. When I was growing up I was very fortunate, I was able to go to Saint Malachys Grammar School a...
Short Strand community development
Reflecting on the housing conditions of his youth, Joe O Donnell explains, “Conditions were all very similar in that they were terrible. Most of the small two bedroom terraced houses in all of the working class areas ...
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.
We are constantly digitising our extensive archive collections for viewing on the web so please visit us again to view new additions.