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The Colin Middleton Centenary
“As a man he was compact, concentrated and charismatic. There was an electric charge when you met him.” Michael Longley. Mo McDevitt talks to decorative landscape painter Colin Middleton’s daughter, Jane Middleton,...
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 ...
Sharing Space in South Belfast – Regeneration in Shared Spaces
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...
In Conversation with June Cole
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...
Market Memories
St George’s Market is one of Belfast’s oldest attractions. It was built between 1890 and 1896 and is one of the best markets in the UK and Ireland. It has been voted for numerous local and national titles and aw...
A Century Later: Alfie McCrory
Searching for survivors amongst the rubble of one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. “I think people from both sides were sickened at innocent people being killed, people got to the stage ...
In Conversation with Dr Ann Matthews
Kellie O Dowd interviews Dr Ann Matthews and discusses the importance of commemoration within republicanism.
D’imigh Sin agus Tháinig Seo
"Tá an leabhar seo fada ag teacht, agus is maith ann é mar bhí baint ag Séamus Mac Seáin le gach fiontar Gaeilge i mBéal Feirste ag dul siar daichead agus níos mó blianta." Labhraímid le cairde, comrádaithe a...
The Shankill Blitz Memorial
The Shankill remembers the victims of the Belfast Blitz which took place on the 15th-16th April 1941. Sam Coulter and Bobby Foster decided to erect a permanent memorial to the victims, with support from the local com...
Thomas Ward
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 ...
The A Centre or the Lost Tribe of Long Lane
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...
A Century Later: Clara Reilly
How the tragic death of a child from a plastic bullet outside her front door in Turf Lodge during the height of the Troubles was the beginning of a campaign to put a stop to further bloodshed. “Plastic Bullets were...