• 26 January 2021

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...

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• 23 December 2020

A Decade of Anniversaries Schools Resource

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• 12 January 2021

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...

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• 23 December 2020

Ards & North Down Borough Council - Shared Education Project

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• 12 January 2021

Artsekta

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

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• 12 January 2021

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.

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• 12 January 2021

Border Arts

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

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• 12 January 2021

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...

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• 12 January 2021

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...

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• 12 January 2021

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.

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• 23 December 2020

Cultural Fusions

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• 12 January 2021

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.

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• 12 January 2021

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 ...

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• 23 December 2020

Fermanagh County Museum – Peace Studies Project

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• 12 January 2021

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. ...

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• 23 December 2020

Journey Together - North West Schools Jointly Remembering the Centenary 2016

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• 12 January 2021

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...

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• 23 December 2020

North West PEACE III Partnership Decade of Commemorations Programme

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• 12 January 2021

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.

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• 12 January 2021

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...

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• 12 January 2021

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’....

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• 23 December 2020

Tara Centre – Cross Community Project

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• 12 January 2021

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. ...

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• 12 January 2021

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...

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• 12 January 2021

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...

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• 12 January 2021

Unionist Centenary Committee

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

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• 12 January 2021

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. ...

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• 12 January 2021

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....

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