Community Relations Council
Equity Diversity Interdependence
Promoting a Peaceful and Fair
Society based on Reconciliation
and Mutual Trust.
Up and Coming
Up and Coming
Ethical Remembering Acknowledging the decade of change and violence
A 6 Session Course from 16th May 2012 - 20th June 2012
from 7.30pm - 9.30pm in Holy Cross Monastery, Rostrevor
Course Facilitator: Dr Johnston McMaster
To view more information click here
Talks series at PRONI - A Decade of Change, Conflict and Transformation related to the Covenant Period.
6th September - Stephen Scarth (on PRONI records)
13th September - Dr Eamon Phoenix
20th September - Dr Tim Bowman
27th September - William Crawley and Brian Henry Martin (BBC)
More information as it come in.
Marking Anniversaries 2012-2023 ‘Remembering the Future’ Lecture Programme
The Community Relations Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund are holding a series of 10 weekly lectures covering this critical historical period. The format will be symposium style with one hour for speakers and one hour discussion based on questions from the audience. The principal speaker will provide the overview for about 30 minutes. This will be followed by two experts, giving different perspectives.
The primary purpose of the series is to produce resources and to stimulate wider interest in the marking these anniversaries in keeping with the principles of:
1 Start from the historical facts;
2 Recognise the implications and consequences of what happened;
3 Understand that different perceptions and interpretations exist; and
4 Show how events and activities can deepen understanding of the period.
5 All to be seen in the context of an ‘inclusive and accepting society’
We are targeting people at community level from local organisations, culture and heritage groups, historical societies, educationalists, political activists, local museums and cultural centres, councils and departments, artists and arts organisations, dramatists, poets, musicians and those within the public who are interested a journey of exploration and discovery through this period.
The resources will be available in the form of DVD and material for You Tube that can stimulate group discussions and local events and provide a body of information that is historically accurate and engages with a wide range of interpretations and perspectives. So the series will be recorded and we aim to start the web based dissemination after the first week’s event. We also aim to produce a publication.
All lectures will begin at 7pm and should finish by 9pm.
The lecture titles are
Thursday 8th March 2012
1. ‘The Burden of Our History’: The Historical Background to the period 1912-1923
Prof Paul Bew Two Irelands in Conflict? 1912 Revisited
Perspectives
John Killen Twentieth Century Ireland - Cartoons and Postcards
Prof. Mary O’Dowd- Women’s perspectives
Wednesday 14th March 2012
2. Carson, Craig, British Conservatism and the Third Home Rule Crisis (1910-14)
DrAlan Parkinson Friends and Covenants- the Ulster Unionist campaign against Irish Home Rule, 1912-14
Perspectives
Dr. E Phoenix Divergent Views
Gordon Lucy The Significance of the Covenant
Wednesday 21st March 2012
3. Nationalism in Ireland 1900-16: Home Rulers, Separatists and Protestant Nationalists
Prof M Laffan Carson’s Example: the Radicalisation of Irish Nationalism
Perspectives
Dr Catherine Morris Alice Milligan and the Cultural Revival
Dr Donal McAnallen The GAA in Ulster, from Revival to Rising
Wednesday 28th March 2012
3. The Labour Movement in Ireland 1900-22
Dr Emmet O’Connor Labour in Ireland, 1903-23: history and remembrance
Perspectives
John Gray Paralysed Like a Russian City: the Belfast Dock Strike of 1907 and the Revolution that was Snuffed Out
Therese Moriarty Linen workers and female trade unionists
Wednesday 4th April 2012
5. Ireland and the First World War
Prof Keith Jeffery Our War? Ireland and the Great War 1914-18
Perspectives
Jim McDermott Ulster Catholics Belfast in particular and the Great War
Philip Orr The Great War, the Somme and the Ulster Protestant Psyche
One week break
Wednesday 18th April 2012
6. The 1916 Rising
Dr Fearghal McGarry The Easter Rising: the view from the grassroots
Perspectives
Dr. E Phoenix The UVF man who saw the Rising from the Gresham Hotel
Dr Margaret O’Callaghan Commemorating the Rising of 1916 in Belfast in 1966
Dr David Hume Contemporary Unionist view on the 1916 Rising
Wednesday 25th April 2012
7. The Women’s Movement in Ireland 1910-22
Dr Myrtle Hill Re-visioning the Past: Female Perspectives 1910-22
Perspectives
Dr Margaret Ward Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism
Dr Rosemary Cullen Owens Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1899-1922
Wednesday 2nd May 2012
8. From Rising to Truce 1916-21
Prof Michael Laffan The Irish Revolution: From Rising to Truce 1916-21
Perspectives
Dr Francis Costello The Irish Diaspora - their impact on the Revolution
Dr Marie Coleman Local Revolutions Longford - A Case Study
Wednesday 9th May 2012
9. Partition, Treaty and Civil War
Dr. E Phoenix Partition, Treaty and Civil War
Perspectives
Dr Alan Parkinson Shipyard Confetti- The 1920’s Belfast
Dr Eve Morrison Insights from Bureau of Military History, National Achieves of Ireland,Dublin
Wednesday 16th May 2012
10. Trapped by the Border
Dr. E Phoenix Northern Nationalists and Southern Unionists 1916-25
Perspectives
Jim Devenny Protestants in ‘The Lost Counties’
Tom Hartley Belfast and sense of nationalism
For more information and registration form click here
To see brief texts from the lectures click here
The War Years Remembered Organisation will be showing their vast collection of First & Second World War memorabilia from Monday 5 March until Friday 13 April. Click here for details
Connection & Division – the Hidden Histories of 1910-1930
Friday 30 March 2012 – Saturday 30 June 2012, Fermanagh County Museum
A joint exhibition presented by Fermanagh County Museum, The Inniskillings Museum and Derry Heritage and Museum Service which explores how the major events of 1910 - 1930 impacted on the North Western region of Ireland. The exhibition tells the previously untold stories of individual people who lived through the upheavals of this period. Irish Nationalism, Unionism, the partition of Ireland importantly the preconceptions we have of these events today.
New acquisitions and artefacts within the museum’s collections form part of this exhibition, highlighting the historical, political, social & economic significant factors of the period 1910 – 1930.
The exhibition is the culmination of an innovative partnership between Fermanagh County Museum Service, the Inniskillings Museum and Derry Heritage and Museum Service, in collaboration with the University of Ulster/Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages. This project is supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Collecting Cultures Programme. Normal admission rates apply
Invitation for organisations to participate in a new event at Enniskillen Castle Museums: ‘Connect with your Past : A History Roadshow for all the family’ on Saturday 21 April 2012 between 10am and 5pm. Click here for details Visitors will be able to view the Connection & Division – the Hidden Histories of 1910-1930 exhibition.
1912 – A Hundred Years On
The drama '1912- a Hundred Years On' , written by Philip Orr and Alan McGuckian, is being performed at a variety of community venues, 9th- 23rd March 2012. Each performance is followed by an optional workshop to discuss issues raised by the political events of that fateful year, in which a Home Rule Bill for Ireland was drawn up and Unionists opposed it with the signing of the Ulster Covenant.
Details regarding the venues for the tour of this drama and workshop may be found on the website - www.contemporarychristianity.net
Raidió Fáilte 107.1fm 'Samhlaigh Sin / Imagine That'
Raidió Fáilte, the Belfast-based Irish language community radio station, will produce a 7-part series of Irish language/bilingual radio programmes setting the scene for the commemoration of a number of significant anniversaries in the period 2012 - 2023, exploring themes of industrial heritage, labour movements and the role of the Irish language itself in society in the northern part of Ireland in the period.
This digital media project will look, through the medium of the Irish language, at the economic and social conditions that prevailed in the early part of the 20th century and at resultant political events. It will look at the language question itself, revealing a number of interesting facts, for example - significant proponents of the language were from a Protestant background (countering the present-day myth that the Irish language is linked, for the most part, to Catholicism/Nationalism) -including Douglas Hyde, (1860–1949), Irish language scholar, founder of Conradh na Gaeilge (The Gaelic League) and first President of Ireland; Francis Joseph Biggar, (1863-1926), Belfast solicitor, historian and Gaelic Leaguer and Robert 'Shipboy' MacAdam (1808-95), Belfast born industrialist and Gaelic Scholar.
Programmes will be broadcast on Raidió Fáilte 107.1 fm in the Greater Belfast area and via online streaming at www.raidiofailte.com
The proposed first broadcast dates are as follows:
(All programmes will be allotted rebroadcast slots)
Programme 1 12/03/2012 (during Seachtain na Gaeilge)
Programme 2 & 3 09/04/2012 (Easter Monday)
Programme 4 & 5 04/06/2012
Programme 6 & 7 09/07/2012
1912 - 2012 Explaining the Ulster Covenant
A series of evenings exploring various aspects of the Ulster Covenant will be held in the ‘Shipyard Church’, Westbourne Presbyterian Community Church, 149a Newtownards Road, Belfast, where 3.371 actually signed the Covenant on 28th September 1912.
In addition to the informative illustrated talks from experts in their field, each evening will include music and/or poetry from the period. The events are free and tea and coffee will be available.
Thursday 22 March 2012 at 7.30 pm
Introduction to the Ulster Covenant
‘100 Years On’ Drama – Talk by Gordon Lucy
Monday 30 April 2012 at 7.30 pm
Presbyterianism & Ulster Covenant
John Erskine & Nelson McCausland MLA
Wednesday 23 May at 7.30 pm
Nationalism & Ulster Covenant
Dr Eamon Phoenix
Thursday 21 June at 7.30 pm
Women & Ulster Covenant
Dr Diane Urquhart & Philip Orr
