Lisburn & Castlereagh A Programme of 100 Centenary Talks Years NI 1921 - 2021 April - November 2021
Partition and the Birth of Northern Ireland 1900-22 Dr Éamon Phoenix 13 April 2021
Dr Éamon Phoenix is an author, historian, broadcaster and member of the Irish Government's Advisory Group on Centenaries.
‘The Impact of Partition, from Politics to Culture and Society’ Dr Cormac Moore 13 May 2021
Dr Cormac Moore is Historian-in-Residence with Dublin City Council, and author of a number of books including The Irish Soccer Split (2015) and The Birth of the Border (2019).
What’s yours is mine, what’s mine is yours’: Ulster-Scots-Irish Roy Greer 13 June 2021
Roy Greer is an historian, and author of Con O’Neill, last Gaelic Lord of Upper Clannaboy (2019).
From the clanging of metal to the clinking of coin: industry in Ulster Prof Steve Royle 23 June 2021
Steve Royle is a graduate of the University of Cambridge. He joined the geography staff at Queen’s University Belfast in 1976 and is now an emeritus professor. He is author of Portrait of an Industrial City: Clanging Belfast 1750-1914 (2011).
One Hundred Years of Northern Irish Arts Paula McFettridge 16 September 2021
Paula McFetridge has been Artistic Director of Kabosh, a Belfast-based theatre company, since 2006. Kabosh is committed to challenging the idea of what theatre is, who it is for and where it is staged.
Paula is a fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar Session 532 ‘Peacebuilding through the Arts’, was made Belfast Ambassador in recognition of utilising the arts to tackle difficult issues and won the Northern Ireland Tourism Board ‘Hero’ award for her work in cultural tourism.
The killing of Sir Henry Wilson: an Irish Tragedy Prof Fearghal McGarry 11 October 2021
Fearghal McGarry is Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast. He has written widely on modern Ireland, particularly on political violence and radicalism in revolutionary and post-independence Ireland. He is the author of The Abbey Rebels of 1916: A Lost Revolution (2015) and The Rising. Ireland. Easter 1916 (2010).
An evening with Stephen Watson: 100 years of sport in Northern Ireland with special guests (tbc) Stephen Watson 18 November 2021
Stephen Watson is one of Northern Ireland’s most respected sports journalists. As the main sports presenter on BBC Newsline, Stephen has fronted BBC Newsline’s coverage of the London Olympic Games and Ryder Cup, and has also covered recent landmark events such as the major golfing successes of Rory McIlroy and Darren Clarke. Stephen is the recipient of a kidney transplant and represented Great Britain & Northern Ireland at the World Transplant Games.
Lisburn & Castlereag100h Years NI 1921 - 2021