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6th Connaught Rangers Research Project

6th Connaught Rangers Research Project

The 6th Connaught Rangers Research Project was formed by a group of people who had an interest in issues related to Irish nationalism and WWI. Some of those group members had family relatives who had enlisted, along with hundreds of others from the Falls Road area, in the Connaught Rangers...

A Decade of Anniversaries Schools Resource

A Decade of Anniversaries Schools Resource

An Inclusive Covenant

An Inclusive Covenant

Developed through an on-going partnership and series of discussions among congregants of Gilnahirk Presbyterian Church and St Colmcille’s Catholic Parish in East Belfast, ‘An Inclusive Covenant’ was written and signed by participants as an alternative version of the Ulster Covenant for the...

Ards & North Down Borough Council - Shared Education Project

Ards & North Down Borough Council - Shared Education Project

Artsekta

Artsekta

Artsekta have been involved in three separate projects focussing on the past, including The Belfast Bayeux, Sanskriti and Belfast Suitcase Stories.

Belfast City Council: Shared History - Different Allegiances, 1912 - 1914

Belfast City Council: Shared History - Different Allegiances, 1912 - 1914

Over the period of the Decade of Anniversaries, Belfast City Council has developed a programme that each year emphasises aspects that marks events of that particular year that shaped Northern Ireland and Ireland a century ago.

Border Arts

Border Arts

The Border Arts group organised 3 lectures based on the 1912 – 1923 period, funded through Strabane District Council’s Good Relations budget. ...

Causeway Museum Service

Causeway Museum Service

Much of the work of the Causeway Museum Service (CMS) is outreach- based, working with local communities, as well as working with local museum collections. This approach to historical work engages participants by encouraging them to share their expertise, tell their own story and providing the...

Celebrating 2016 – The Belfast Story

Celebrating 2016 – The Belfast Story

In the early part of 2015 a number of individuals, community activists, groups from the world of culture, arts and tourism, historians and communities held a series of conversations as to how Belfast could remember, reflect, celebrate and commemorate our city and its intricate connection to the...

Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 1920-23

Commemorating Partition and Civil Wars in Ireland, 1920-23

This project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to explore the historical context of the partition of Ireland and resulting inter-communal violence in the 'two Irelands'. A series of podcasts based on lectures delivered at Queen's was made available on the...

Commemoration Through Poetry and Verse

Commemoration Through Poetry and Verse

Over a series of four workshops we worked with a group of women from North and West Belfast to look at the First World War through poetry written by men and women poets about that era.

Connection and Division: 1910 - 1930

Connection and Division: 1910 - 1930

Connection & Division brings together collections acquired by Derry City Council Heritage & Museum Service, the Inniskillings Museum and Fermanagh County Museum Service.

Cultural Fusions

Cultural Fusions

Entwined Histories

Entwined Histories

Entwined Histories began in 2012 with a project to commemorate the signing of the Ulster Covenant. Following the success of this pilot, Co-operation Ireland continued the series, with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the reconciliation fund, with a further...

Ethical & Shared Remembering Commemoration in a New Context: Remembering a Decade of Change and Violence, 1912-1923

Ethical & Shared Remembering Commemoration in a New Context: Remembering a Decade of Change and Violence, 1912-1923

As a result of work started in 2008, the Junction and Holywell Trust in partnership with the Irish School of Ecumenics have developed the Ethical and Shared Remembering Project, modelling effective collaboration between academic and community-based groups.

Ethical and Shared Remembering

Ethical and Shared Remembering

Ethical and Shared Remembering The Ethical and Shared Remembering Programme, 1912-1922, has been developed around a five strand methodological framework: Remembering in Context Remembering the Whole Decade Remembering the Future Remembering Ethically Remembering Together ...

Fermanagh County Museum – Peace Studies Project

Fermanagh County Museum – Peace Studies Project

Home Rule?

Home Rule?

One hundred years on from 8 February 1912, an audience at St Mary’s University, Belfast watched a dramatic reconstruction of Winston Churchill’s famous vision of self-government for Ireland. ...

Journey Together - North West Schools Jointly Remembering the Centenary 2016

Journey Together - North West Schools Jointly Remembering the Centenary 2016

Meeke and the Major

Meeke and the Major

This project focused on the First World War, and in particular the Battle of Messines. It centres on the relationship between Private John Meeke a local Orangeman from Benvarden and Major William Redmond who was a famous nationalist MP. Focusing on this unique relationship has helped to define...

Military History from the Streets: A Guide for Schools

Military History from the Streets: A Guide for Schools

This is a guide which sets out five steps for history teachers to use or adapt to help students understand how the military history of WWI relates to their area. The briefing is based on the book Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War (...

NICIE: Facing the Past Shaping the Future

NICIE: Facing the Past Shaping the Future

Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE) developed this project as a resource and support to teachers and students hoping to mark the Decade of Anniversaries. ...

North Down Museum: Home, Politics and War Exhibition

North Down Museum: Home, Politics and War Exhibition

This exhibition explored the changing lives of women during the early 20th Century when women began to break free from the restraints of society and move into the world of politics, work and medicine. ...

North West PEACE III Partnership Decade of Commemorations Programme

North West PEACE III Partnership Decade of Commemorations Programme

Paths to Commemoration

Paths to Commemoration

Paths to Commemoration is a project aimed at devising ways of publicly marking significant historic events that can include everybody. It is funded by the PEACE III Programme run by Sligo County Council on behalf of Sligo Peace & Reconciliation Partnership Committee.

PRONI - Decade of Centenaries Programme

PRONI - Decade of Centenaries Programme

Remembering the Future Lecture Series

Remembering the Future Lecture Series

The period 2012 -2023 marks a number of significant political events which have shaped the sense of British and Irish identity in the 20th century. The Community Relations Council (CRC) and the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) joined together for a series of lectures and events with an accompanying...

Rural Community Network - Understanding Commemorations

Rural Community Network - Understanding Commemorations

Rural Community network (RCN), in conjunction with independent consultant Craig Barr, developed a new OCN level 3 programme called ‘Understanding Commemorations’....

Tara Centre – Cross Community Project

Tara Centre – Cross Community Project

Teaching Divided Histories

Teaching Divided Histories

This project is developing an online digital resource for teachers to access and a programme of support and training for teachers to enable them to utilise it effectively with students at Key Stage 3 in Northern Ireland and students in transfer year in the Border Counties.

The Box

The Box

The Box was a premiere theatre production that brought to life the discovered archive of Olive Swanzy, a nurse from County Down who served as a medic on the front lines of WWI. ...

The Fellowship of  Messines Association

The Fellowship of  Messines Association

The Fellowship of Messines Association created a project for the Decade that sought to explore themes related to common history, conflict resolution and personal development. Specifically, the emphasis on a common and shared history was designed to recruit a diverse range of individuals from an...

The Junction: Laura Gailey Film

The Junction: Laura Gailey Film

This short original film is about Laura Gailey, the only woman named on the War Memorial in the Diamond in Derry/Londonderry. Laura Gailey was a resident of the city who became a volunteer nurse tending the war-wounded in Liverpool during WWI. ...

The Maiden’s City: A ‘Herstory’ Tour of the Walled City

The Maiden’s City: A ‘Herstory’ Tour of the Walled City

The Poppy and the Lily

The Poppy and the Lily

During the centennial years, from 2014 through to 2018, a project named The Poppy and the Lily has been delivered at a wide range of venues. At its core is the desire to enable people to learn more about the origins and purpose of two of the most significant commemorative symbols in our divided...

This is What We Sang

This is What We Sang

‘This is What We Sang’ was accompanied by an exhibition and a companion publication, and was performed by The Kabosh Theatre Company in the Belfast Synagogue as part of the Belfast Festival. ...

Unionist Centenary Committee

Unionist Centenary Committee

The Unionist Centenary Committee was established in 2010 to take forward a ‘Decade of Unionist Centenaries’....

We Were Brothers

We Were Brothers

‘We Were Brothers’ is a project comprised of a play with accompanying book, DVD, website and school/community outreach programmes which focuses on the shared history of nationalists and unionists who fought together in the British uniform during WWI. ...

Westbourne Presbyterian Community Church Lecture Series

Westbourne Presbyterian Community Church Lecture Series 

Also known as known as ‘The Shipyard Church,’ Westbourne Presbyterian Church on the Newtownards Road in East Belfast was the biggest signing centre for the Ulster Covenant in 1912 after Belfast City Hall....