Getting To Know You: Rabbi Avraham Citron
Archival programme. Julius E Anakaa meets Rabbi Abraham Citron of the Jewish community in Belfast. He shares with us his experiences and insights into the Jewish culture and community.
Winifred Carney
A reflection on the life and times of the suffragist and trade unionist, Winifred Carney.
Brigadista
A documentary with two Irish members of the International Brigades and their accounts of the time. The International Brigades (Spanish: Brigadas Internacionales) were military units made up of volunteers from different countries, who traveled to Spain to fight for the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. Bob Doyle was […]
King of the Pipers
The story of Leo Rowsome as told by his friends and family.
Mary Duffy: Unarmed & Dangerous
Artist extraordinaire Mary Duffy explores aspects of her work, lifestyle, philosophy and examines the hurdles and political difficulties she has faced throughout her career as an individual affected by the misuse of Thalidomide given to expectant mothers in 1960s. In conversation with Mo McDevitt in Co. Wexford we find the source of her expansive collection […]
Insider Revisited: Cairn Lodge Amateur Boxing Club
“Our enjoyment is seeing the kids do well, at all levels. From school to intermediate and senior. That’s our aim, if they do well then we do well.” Tommy Waite Senior. Formed in 1982, the Cairn Lodge Amateur Boxing Club has produced a wealth of boxing talent through the decades. When the Insider first visited […]
A Century Later: 1941 – the night my friends died
A boy on the Shankill Road experiences the horrors of the Belfast Blitz, a night that would live in his memories forever.
A Century Later: 1912 – my grandfather
A grandson discovers his grandfather and the part he played in two important historical events, the signing of the Ulster Covenant and the fight in France during World War One.
A Century Later: 1963 – the day i burnt ché guevara’s moustache
Northern Irish businessman does business with Marxist revolutionary leader in Cuba.
A Century Later: 1980 – the day I captured life
Over thirty years of photography from a man determined to keep the history of the city he loves alive.