Category: Community and Society
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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)
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Women in the Easter Rising
In the first of a series of articles on commemorating the events of 1916, Dr Marie Coleman looks at the role of some of the lesser-known female participants in the Easter Rising as well as the plight of the widows left behind. (Image: Countess Constance Markievicz by John Butler Yeats)
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Dementia: look closer
Dr Paula Devine and Elizabeth Byrne McCullough explore what the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey tells up about public knowledge of, and attitudes towards dementia.