Tag: political violence
Bhí Mé Ann! Portráid de Eddie Keenan (1921-2009) I was there! A Portrait of Eddie Keenan (1921-2009)
Cuntas ar Eddie Keenan, fear clúiteach i measc pobal na Gaeilge. Insíonn sé scéalta faoina shaol agus na rudaí atá déanta aige. Portráid den phoblachtánach Eddie Keenan (Éamonn Ó Cianáin), fear clúiteach i measc phob...
The Way I See It: Father Des Wilson
The Way I See It: Father Des Wilson in conversation with Bernadette McAliskey West Belfast community activist Father Des Wilson sits down with veteran civil rights campaigner Bernadette McAliskey as part of the lau...
A Century Later: Lee Lavis
A soldier in the British Army discovers his love for a country that is finding peace after decades of war. “I had a realization that the conflict was not just about me as a soldier or soldiers and soldiers as victi...
A Century Later: Sean McKernan
Over thirty years of photography from a man determined to keep the history of the city he loves alive. “I’ve been a photographer for most of my life, I always pick up a camera, I feel naked if I go out without a ca...
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?
Belfast Exposed 30th Anniversary
"If you go back to 1983, there was no organisation set up to encourage the development of photography at any level. Belfast Exposed was the first organisation to allow and encourage photographers to show their work.” ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...