Category: Community and Society
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Commemorating and remembering World War One
In this, the decade of centenaries, Professor Keith Lilley takes a look at the complexities of the commemoration of war and highlights that the various commemorations in 2016 have led to popular discussion and political debate around remembering.
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NI Festival of Social Science 2016
The Northern Ireland Festival of Social Science will take place from 5-11 November as part of the UK-wide ESRC Festival of Social Science.
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The enigmas of Roger Casement
On the centenary of his execution, Dr Marie Coleman looks at the life and career of Roger Casement and the role he played in the 1916 Easter Rising.
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ESRC Festival of Social Science – Funding opportunity call
The 2016 ESRC Festival of Social Science will take place from 5th – 12th November 2016 and the Northern Ireland programme is now welcoming applications for event funding.
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How to mark the Easter Rising in Northern Ireland
Professor John Brewer looks at the pervading memory culture in Northern Ireland and questions how we might remember key historic events such as the Easter Rising in ways that heal rather than divide.
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A Terrible Beauty is Born – Yeats and “Easter 1916”
In the most famous piece of writing about the Rising, Easter 1916, WB Yeats famously revised his earlier critical opinions of Ireland. But, asks Professor Fran Brearton, was he also responding to Rudyard Kipling’s pro-unionist poem, Ulster 1912?
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Remembering Pearse in Music: Arnold Bax’s In Memoriam
Dr Aidan Thomson looks at the life of Sir Arnold Pax and examines how a meeting with Padraig Pearse led to Pax becoming known as a “Celtic Composer.”
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The Politics of Commemoration
Dr Margaret O’Callaghan reflects on how the commemoration of 1916 at different points in time is a snapshot of the politics and tensions of the day. (Image: GPO Dublin 1916)
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Belfast Soldiers in the Great War
As part of a series of articles commemorating the events of 1916, Jason Burke reflects on the recruitment of, and the role played by unionist and nationalist soldiers from Belfast in the Great War. (Image: Guildhall Stained-glass Windows commemorating the 36th, 16th and 10th Divisions)