NI Civil Rights Conference

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Great day had at a well-attended conference on the Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Fifty years on.

This was a first for the Ulster History Project and we are very pleased that it went off as a great success and achieved some media coverage.

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Richard Holmes, Chairman of the UHP, opening the conference

We are also very pleased with the media coverage the event received with the BBC, who interviewed Dr Andrew Charles and Professor Liam Kennedy about the project.

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Dr Andrew Charles, speaking to the BBC

 

The conference can be viewed online via our Facebook Page. There are two parts, part one can be accessed here and part two here.

An audio version will be added to the site shortly.

Thank you to our speakers: Dr Andrew Charles, Dr Graham Gudgin, Mr Gregory Campbell MP, Dr Austen Morgan and Prof Liam Kennedy.

Also, thanks to Diane Forsythe for being our compère and to Jeffrey Dudgeon MBE for chairing the Panel discussion.

 

Bookings

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The Ulster History Project is taking bookings for talks.

Potential subjects include:

  • The 1918 Armistice
  • Ulster and the end of the Great War
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • Siege of Londonderry
  • Londonderry, 1968 and the start of ‘the Troubles’
  • Foundation of Northern Ireland

If you have a group interested please do not hesitate to get in touch. It can be a one-off session or series.

Email info@ulsterhistoryproject.org.uk 

101st anniversary of the Battle of Messines

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Today, 7 June, marks the 101st anniversary of the Battle of Messines, 1917.
In April this year, the Ulster History Project visited the area and recorded this Podcast.
Discussing the Battle of Messines from the Irish Peace Tower is Graham Craig and historian Gordon Lucy.
A further Podcast is available at https://soundcloud.com/andrew-charles-691438993/locre-willie-redmond-mp, discussing Major Willie Redmond MP who died at the Battle of Messines, 7 June 1917.

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NI Civil Rights Event

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The UHP is organising an event to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the NI Civil Rights Movement at the Belfast Boat Club, Stranmillis, on Saturday 6th October from 9.30-5pm.

Speakers:

  • Dr Andrew Charles – Perspectives and background to the Civil Rights Movement
  • Dr Graham Gudgin – Discrimination in Housing and Employment
  • Mr Gregory Campbell MP for East Londonderry
  • Dr Austen Morgan – “Sectarianism, Rebellion, Socialism”
  • Prof Liam Kennedy – The Civil Rights Movement and the Aftermath

To find out more please email: info@ulsterhistoryproject.org.uk

A schedule of speakers can be found here. Biographies of Speakers is available here.

Tickets are priced from £10 and can be purchased in advance via Eventbrite or at the door. Please click here.

The event will be streamed Live, and accessible thereafter, via our Facebook Page.