Tribute night to Geoff Harden. Geoff Harden (8 July 1943 – 4 September 2006) was a journalist, broadcaster, recording engineer and folk music promoter. Born in Kent, England, Harden moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland in …
Continue ReadingA Tale Of Two Libraries- Falls Road Library
Archive film made during the centenary of the Falls Road library in 2008.
Continue ReadingA Tale Of Two Libraries-Shankill Road Library
Archive film from 2008, the year of the Falls Road Library centenary.
Continue ReadingInsider Revisited: Cairn Lodge Amateur Boxing Club
“Our enjoyment is seeing the kids do well, at all levels. From school to intermediate and senior. That’s our aim, if they do well then we do well.” Tommy Waite Senior. Formed in 1982, the …
Continue ReadingA Moment in Time: Seamus Heaney interview
From the archives, an interview with Seamus Heaney about his work in Ballymurphy, west Belfast.
Continue ReadingOur Generation: The Rape & Plunder of the Shankill Revisited
Traumatic change came to the inner city communities of Belfast in the 1970s with large scale redevelopment, ring roads planned to encircle the city and whole communities being wiped away by the bulldozer. One of …
Continue ReadingMcGurk’s Bar Bombing: Loss of Innocence
Relatives of those who were killed and injured in the McGurk’s Bar bombing talk of that night and its aftermath. On 4 December 1971, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), exploded a bomb at McGurk’s Bar …
Continue ReadingI Remember the Holocaust: Helen Lewis
A Belfast-based author and choreographer who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp recounts her harrowing story and has been remembered as remarkable, inspirational and brave. Helen Lewis, the Czech-born mother-of-two spent three months in the Nazi …
Continue ReadingHMS Caroline
A tour of the ship with Commander Martin Quinn and reflections on its history by those who served on her.
Continue ReadingBelfast 1792 – The Hub of the Harp
Film about the 1792 Belfast Harpers Assembly, which took place in the Assembly Rooms building at the junction of Donegall and Waring streets. 2012 was the 220th anniversary and an event took place in the …
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