Northern Ireland Community Relations Council - Marking Anniversaries

Decade of Centenaries Lecture videos

Lecture Series Remembering the Future on YouTube

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Lecture 1 on YouTube
'The Burden of our History': The Historical Background to the period 1912-23
Twentieth Century Cartoons and Postcards - John Killen
Two Irelands in conflict? 1912 Revisited - Paul Bew
Women in Ireland, 1912-22: The Historical Background - Professor Mary O’Dowd

Lecture 2 on YouTube
Carson, Craig, British Conservatism and the Third Home Rule Crisis (1910-1914)
‘Against the Tide’ The Counter-Covenant of 1912 and the Protestant Home Rulers - Éamon Phoenix
Friends in High Places - Dr Alan Parkinson
The Significance of the Ulster Covenant - Gordon Lucy

Lecture 3 on YouTube
Nationalism in Ireland 1900-16: Home Rulers, Separatists and Protestant Nationalists
The GAA in Ulster, from Revival to Rising - Dónal McAnallen
Carson’s Example - Professor Michael Laffin
Alice Milligan and the Cultural Revival - Dr Catherine Morris

Lecture 4 on YouTube
The Labour Movement in Ireland 1900-22
Labour in Ireland 1900-1922 - Dr Emmet O'Connor
Paralysed like a Russian city - John Gray
Linen workers and female trade unionists - Therese Moriarty

Lecture 5 on YouTube
Ireland and the First World War
Our War? Ireland and the Great War 1914-18 - Prof Keith Jeffrey
Ulster Catholics Belfast in particular and the Great War - Jim McDermott
The Great War, the Somme and the Ulster Protestant Psyche - Philip Orr

Lecture 6 on YouTube
The 1916 Rising
The Easter Rising: the view from the grassroots - Dr Fearghal McGarry
The UVF man who saw the Rising from the Gresham Hotel - Dr E Phoenix
Commemorating the Rising of 1916 in Belfast in 1966 - Dr Margaret O'Callaghan
Contemporary Unionist view on the 1916 Rising - Dr David Hume

Lecture 7 on YouTube
The Women's Movement in Ireland 1910-22
Re-visioning the Past: Female Perspectives 1910-22 - Dr Myrtle Hill
Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism - Dr Margaret Ward
Irish Women's Suffrage Movement 1899-1922 - Dr Rosemary Cullen-Owens

Lecture 8 on YouTube
From Rising to Truce
The Irish Revolution: From Rising to Truce 1916-21 - Prof Michael Laffan
The Irish Diaspora - their impact on the Revolution - Dr Francis Costello
Local Revolutions Longford - a Case Study - Dr Marie Coleman

Lecture 9 on YouTube
Partition, Treaty and Civil War
Partition, Treaty and Civil War - Dr Eamon Phoenix
Shipyard Confetti - the 1920s Belfast - Dr Alan Parkinson
Insights from Bureau of Military History, National Archives of Ireland, Dublin

Lecture 10 on YouTube
Trapped by the Border
Northern Nationalists and Southern Unionists - Dr Eamon Phoenix
Protestants in 'The Lost Counties'
Belfast and Sense of Nationalism

Lecture 11 on YouTube
Decade of Anniversaries and its Contemporary Relevance: Panel Discussion 'Remembering the Future' 1912-1922
Dr Eamon Phoenix, Dr John Dunlop, Dr Martin Mansergh and Maureen Hetherington