A Century Later: 1941 – the day that sent me down under
A man fighting the Japanese in World War Two loses contact with home.
A Century Later: 1945 – the day the war ended
A dangerous job as an armourer in World War Two living on an airbase with constant air raids and the sound of bombs raining down.
A Century Later: 1952 – my first day on the docks
A day on Belfast docks, a place filled with lively characters, back breaking work and casual violence, described in vivid detail by a docker turned author.
The Colin Middleton Centenary
“As a man he was compact, concentrated and charismatic. There was an electric charge when you met him.” Michael Longley. Mo McDevitt talks to decorative landscape painter Colin Middleton’s daughter, Jane Middleton, at Dickon Hall Ltd in the Crescent Arts Centre at a special exhibition celebrating what would have been Colin Middleton’s 100th Birthday. “When […]
Our 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.
McGurk’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 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The explosion caused the building to collapse, killing fifteen civilians and wounding seventeen more. It was […]
I 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 concentration camp and survived two so-called selections by the notorious Angel of Death‚ Dr Josef Mengele. During one such selection […]
HMS Caroline
A tour of the ship with Commander Martin Quinn and reflections on its history by those who served on her.
Belfast 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 Central Library to commemorate it. This event revealed research about the life and times of Arthur (Art) O Neill, one […]
Barrack Street 1929-1998
Barrack Street Christian Brothers School closed in 1998 after 69 years. Through interviews with teachers and past pupils the film is a fascinating insight into the history of this West Belfast institution.