• 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

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

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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• 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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• 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

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. ...

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• 12 January 2021

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. ...

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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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