Tag: Loyalism
Peter Heathwood
Marie Breen-Smyth, the Associated Dean International at the University of Surrey, talks to Peter Heathwood. At home in Cliftonville in north Belfast, Peter was sitting with his wife and three young children after f...
And then there was Silence…
Documents the experiences, feelings and needs of people who have been closely affected by the violence of the Troubles, based on in-depth interviews and survey work conducted by the pioneering Cost of the Troubles Stu...
McGurk’s Bar Bombing – Loss of Innocence
Relatives of those who were killed and injured in the McGurk's Bar bombing talk of that night and its aftermath. On 4 December 1971, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), exploded a bomb at McGurk's Bar in Belfast, Nor...
SRD Melody Flute Band 2009
Highlights of the Shankill Road Defenders 4th annual Melody Flute Band Competition, which took place at the Spectrum Centre, Shankill Road on Saturday 10th October, 2009. As well as the best of Northern Ireland's m...
The Zulu War Hero
Northern Visions follows the Ex Prisoners Interpretative Centre as the organisation creates the latest in their series of cultural murals on the Shankill Road. This time the piece depicts the funeral of local war hero...
The Insider – Yes, Minister
An Insider story about housing issues in the Village including an interview with the then newly appointed Minister for Social Development, Margaret Ritchie. The housing campaign was conduced over several years from...
A Century Later: John MacVicar
The murders of three young soldiers in Belfast in 1971 would influence military legislation in other areas of conflict throughout the world. One community in Belfast was determined these three young men were never for...
A Century Later: Bobby Foster
A funeral procession makes its way through a warzone. “We went from pillar to post right through that entire epicenter of the damage that was happening”
A Century Later: The Working Class – Containing the Past
Class, gender and sectarianism in a society of divided loyalties and years of violence and political conflict. How to remember the past and how can we all strive for a shared future?
A Century Later: Ciaran MacAirt
Proving innocence for the victims of a bomb that ripped through the heart of a North Belfast community, killing men, women and children. “As soon as that bomb went off our campaign for truth started, so for two gen...
A Century Later: Victims & Survivors in Northern Ireland – A Living History
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 ...