We run a number of projects in areas of importance to good community relations, such as the "Decades of Anniversaries" partnered with by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About the Decade of Anniversaries
The Decade of Anniversaries refers to the period of the Home Rule Crisis and the Ulster Covenant Campaign in 1912 through to Partition and the establishment of two parliaments in Ireland in 1921/22. The Community Relations Council and Heritage Lottery Fund organised the first 'Remembering the Future' conference that took place on 21 March 2011. This began a continuing conversation about the issue of remembering in public space. To support this CRC and HLF developed and promoted a widely endorsed set of principles. A series of conferences and resources fairs were organised with partners. Publications and videos developed include Remembering the Future 11 Session Lecture Series, a Toolkit of case studies, videos and publications on the three conferences. We produced these in order to promote balanced understanding of difficult history, using the historical facts and drawing on different narratives.
Resources are available on this page and Creative Centenaries
Useful Resources
- Decade of Anniversaries - Highlights of a Review of Decade of Centenaries 2012 - 2023 (PDF 421.41 KB)
- http://creativecentenaries.org/resources
- Decade Principles for Remembering in Public Space
- Decade of Anniversaries Toolkit
- Remembering the Future - Reflections
- Remembering 1916
- Remembering the Future discussion paper
- Remembering the Future - Funding Guidance
- Brian Cowan Speech: A Decade of Commemorations
View videos of the Decade of Centenaries Lecture Series on YouTube
View Videos from the Conflict, Polarisation and Partition Conference on YouTube
Websites
- Causeway Museum Service(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Century Ireland(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Co-operation Ireland – Entwined Histories(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Corrymeela Community – Facing our History, Shaping the Future(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Creative Centenaries(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Digital Key – Decade of Centenaries Timeline(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- East Belfast & the Great War Research Project(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Heritage Lottery Fund(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Historical Walking Tours of Dublin(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- History Hub Ulster(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- History Ireland Magazine and Hedge Schools(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Libraries NI – Heritage Service Libraries NI(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Living Legacies 1914-18 From Past Conflict to Shared Future(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- National Museums NI – Decade of Centenaries Resources(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE)(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- PRONI(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Shankill Parish Caring Association(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Superact – The Last Post Project 2015
- Teaching Divided Histories(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- The Junction – Ethical and shared remembering(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- The Living Legacies 1914-18(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- The Somme Museum(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Tides Training and Consultancy(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Ulster Historical Foundation(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- Unionist Centenary Committee – Irish Unionism 1912-1921(external link opens in a new window / tab)
- War Years Remembered – First to Fight, Last to Die
