After the Gathering: Dissonant Voices in the Irish Diaspora

Diaspora can be a difficult term to define…we’re talking broadly about people who have an affinity with Ireland, often because of their ancestry.” Dr. Michael Pierse The Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Queens University, Belfast brought together leading researchers from Ireland, England, India and America to discuss key issues of the Irish diaspora […]

The Insider Revisited: A New Heart for Ballybeen

The Insider returns to the Ballybeen estate to see if the promises of a new community and shopping centre have been delivered. When we first visited the estate back in 2008, the Ballybeen Square area was severely run-down, with a large block of condemned flats, and anti-social behaviour keeping customers from visiting the local shops […]

Injured

The Wave Trauma Centre, with financial assistance provided by the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, commissioned a study and documentary in order to gain a better understanding of the lived experiences of those injured as a result of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The study was commissioned from the University of Surrey who made contributions […]

Studio Discussion on the Documentary INJURED

Studio Discussion on the film INJURED. The documentary examined: The needs of individuals who were injured in the Troubles and those of their families, particularly their carers who are usually family members; The difficulty of defining injury. A working definition of ‘Life threatening or disfiguring physical injury’ was adopted as the primary inclusion criteria for […]

Sharing Space in South Belfast

Sharing Space in South Belfast – A Story of Three Working Class Communities is the first in Northern Visions’ Shared Space series explores the experiences of three working class communities in South Belfast and how they are working with the many ethnic minorities coming to live in Belfast from elsewhere. Community leaders and residents from the […]

A Century Later: The Working Class

The Working Class – Containing the Past: Class, gender and sectarianism in a society of divided loyalties and years of violence and political conflict.

Discover The Archives: Artisans & Dreamers

First showing: Monday 29th September at 7.30pm Discover the Archives is a series on NVTV. Belfast College of Technology opened its door to students in September 1906. The College was the centerpiece of the development of further education in Belfast. Purpose built, it acted as a showpiece on a par with Belfast’s other prominent buildings of […]