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FROM THE FALLS TO THE SHANKILL – AN INTERACTIVE WALKING TOUR ON THE HISTORY OF UVF MEMBERS FROM 1913-14 WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR

This free public event explores the hidden stories of those from Belfast who fought in the Great War. The centenary of the Battle of the Somme, 2016 is a significant year in the Decade of Centenaries and the role of the 36th (Ulster) Division there was crucial. However, there is a wider story of the war to tell.
The event will incorporate a talk, given by Professor Richard Grayson (author of Belfast Boys), followed by an interactive walking tour of West Belfast, using digital mapping technologies, to plot out and visit the addresses of around a dozen men who served in the British army in WWI and who were members of the pre-war UVF, some from the Shankill and some from the Falls.

Led by Prof. Grayson, and others involved with his research on ‘military histories form the street’, the talk and tour will cover the personal and shared history of the soldiers and what happened to them during the Great War.

This Imagine! Belfast event forms part of an ongoing programme of research and community outreach activity in 2016 being led by the ‘Living Legacies 1914-18’ WW1 Public Engagement Centre, based at Queen’s University Belfast (for further details see here).

As places are limited to a maximum of 25 persons, please register for this event as soon as possible.

VENUE: An Cultúrlann, 216 Falls Road
DATE: Saturday 19th March
TIME: 11am–1pm
ADMISSION: Free
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For more information please visit :- https://imaginebelfast.com/events/mapping-lives/

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Two ‘Digital Fabrication’ family days will take place at the Ulster Museum on 5^th and 19th March, allowing people to get hands on with some of the latest advancements in digital technology.

Offered by the Nerve Centre’s Creative Centenaries project in partnership with the Nerve Centre’s FabLab, the sessions are a chance to explore the Ulster Museum’s First World War collection and take part in workshops to design your own artefacts and objects.

Workshops will allow the public to laser cut and build their own trench periscope, design and cut their own map-based jigsaw, 3D print a model of the Lusitania or screen print re-creations of First World War recruitment posters.

The sessions which will run throughout each day between 10.30am and 4pm are FREE to attend.

Workshop places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. 

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A major international conference considering and debating the various forms and expressions of resistance to the First World War within and across national contexts. The event will coincide with the centenary of the introduction of conscription in Britain, but will explore national, international and transnational aspects of resistance to the First World War.

Leeds, Friday 18 to Sunday 20 March 2016

Confirmed speakers so far include Cyril Pearce, Lois Bibbings and Julian Putkowski on Conscientious Objectors, Benjamin Ziemann on forms of German resistance to war and June Hannam on the Leeds-born peace activist Isabella Ford.

There will be panels on:

• the cultural representations of pacifism and the mobilization of art and literature to oppose the war;
• memory and commemoration of anti-war activism, including during the centenary;
• Classicists’ resistance to war;
• links and continuities with present-day organisations such as the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom;
• groups and individuals committed to the international reconciliation of former enemies;
• the global dimensions of war resistance;
• ideological, feminist, political and religious motivations for opposing the war;
• the costs of war in terms of human suffering and trauma;
• Conscientious Objection and its international legacies
• pacifism in the inter-war period.

We will be working with Leeds City Museums and Galleries to provide a forum for public debate and exchange of ideas and knowledge and welcome local history groups who are researching COs and other war resisters in their own areas.

The Conference is supported by Legacies of War, Leeds and Gateways to the First World War.

For further details and to register please visit:http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125259/conference_resistance_to_war_1914-1924

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USING DRAMA TO EXPLORE FIRST WORLD WAR HISTORY

Inspired by Brenda Winter-Palmer’s play, The Medal in the Drawer, a story of four young Belfast men who head off to fight in the First World War, the Medals All Round Research Initiative (MAARI) is led by a group of academics and practitioners from Queen’s University, Ulster University and the Lyric Theatre in Belfast to engage a diverse range of community groups throughout Northern Ireland in exploring history through drama. Members of the MARRI team, Brenda Winter-Palmer and Kurt Taroff (Queen’s) and Johanne Devlin Trew (Ulster) will be joined for this workshop by actors to present excerpts of the play, followed by a Q & A discussion about how drama may be used by local communities to explore the contested pasts of this island during the current Decade of Commemorations.

The Medal in the Drawer charts the tensions on the streets of Belfast in the years leading up to the outbreak of the European conflict, the Battle of the Somme and how the news of that devastating defeat was received back in Belfast. Their journey’s end is in the horror and pity of the Battle of Passchendale.

SPONSORED BY THE LIVING LEGACIES 1914-18 ENGAGEMENT CENTRE (ULSTER AND QUEEN’S UNIVERSITIES AND NATIONAL MUSEUMS NI) IN COLLABORATION WITH THE LYRIC THEATRE, BELFAST.

VENUE: Room BA00008, Ulster University Belfast Campus, York Street
DATE: Wednesday 16th March
TIME: 1pm–2pm
ADMISSION: Free

For more information please visit https://imaginebelfast.com/events/medals-all-round/

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Litreacha ón Chéad Chogadh Domhanda leis an Athair Pádraig MacGiolla Cheara / The First World War Letters of Fr MacGiolla Cheara.

Featuring a documentary by Fionntan De Brun, with producer Blaithín Ní Chatháin, exploring the story of Irish language speakers in the First World War, based on the only known Irish language account, by Father Pádraig MacGiolla Cheara.

This is a first-hand testimony of an Ulsterman who wrote about how the war impacted on both soldiers and civilians.

 

Mon 14-03-16 @ 18:00

 

Fore more information please visit :- https://linenhall.cloudvenue.co.uk/gaeilgeoiranchogaidhmhiririshspeakersinthefirstworldwar

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Subject : The Early History of Palace Barracks and Holywood Speaker : Robin Masefield Venue : The Branch meets from 6.30pm to 8.45pm at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), 2 Titanic Boulevard, BELFAST, BT3 9HQ Donation: We ask for £4 to help support our activities as we have no other source of income Please click the poster for more information

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Two ‘Digital Fabrication’ family days will take place at the Ulster Museum on 5^th and 19th March, allowing people to get hands on with some of the latest advancements in digital technology.

Offered by the Nerve Centre’s Creative Centenaries project in partnership with the Nerve Centre’s FabLab, the sessions are a chance to explore the Ulster Museum’s First World War collection and take part in workshops to design your own artefacts and objects.

Workshops will allow the public to laser cut and build their own trench periscope, design and cut their own map-based jigsaw, 3D print a model of the Lusitania or screen print re-creations of First World War recruitment posters.

The sessions which will run throughout each day between 10.30am and 4pm are FREE to attend.

Workshop places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. 

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WHEN

Wednesday, 2 March 2016 from 12:30 to 14:00 (GMT) 

WHERE

Ulster Hall - 34 Bedford Street Belfast, County Antrim BT2 7FF GB - View Map

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