• 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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• 23 December 2020

Ards & North Down Borough Council - Shared Education Project

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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

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.

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• 23 December 2020

Cultural Fusions

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• 12 January 2021

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...

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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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• 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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• 12 January 2021

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. ...

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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 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

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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