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Update 2018 Understanding Our Past, Shaping Our Future Edited Deirdre Mac Bride Foreword This toolkit is a 2018 update of the Decade of Anniversaries Toolkit first published in 2014. Since then, the practice around acknowledging Decade of Centenaries anniversaries has developed strongly. The updated resource is meant for community and voluntary organisations, councils and departments, arts and heritage groups, and cultural and history bodies considering their own commemorative projects or events, to learn and to be inspired. Many projects included in the already been undertaken thus retained in the update. This toolkit are based on the far. It will be equally important includes the ‘how to plan your CRC/HLF principles or other that we are forward looking in own’ section goes through ethical frame works. During how we remember, underlining questions and issues that need 2017, we reviewed the the importance of continuing to to be considered when putting principles and the CRC HLF unearth the complexities of our together a programme of events principles remain unchanged. history. This will enable us to and Lessons and Tips. This The Decade Roundtable take on board new research, and Update 2018 contains 45 new members reflected on these continue to reflect critically on case studies adding to the 24 principles and their usefulness. different interpretations of case studies published in 2013. They suggest that in the final these momentous events in our All of these are accessible phase of the Decade of shared history. interactively using the symbols Centenaries and beyond, these The sections of the toolkit that indicate the approach principles will continue to drafted by Healing Through taken to making the centenaries underpin programmes and Remembering that provide at www.creativecentenaries.org/ projects, which will be no less guidance and support for those toolkit. challenging than what has working on projects has been Produced by the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council (CRC) and Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). CRC which aims to promote a pluralist society characterised by equity, respect for diversity, and recognition of interdependence. HLF is the UK’s largest funder of heritage projects. In Northern Ireland HLF have awarded over £228m to over 1,300 projects. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of CRC. ISBN: 9781898276708 Acknowledgements We would like to thank all the community groups, statutory bodies, museums and heritage groups, government departments and others who have contributed to the development of this toolkit. Their co-operation in drafting the cases, providing information and providing feedback on the various resources is invaluable. Developed by Deirdre Mac Bride at the Community Relations Council with support from Niall Kerr at Nerve Centre, based on the original developed by Healing Through Remembering, compiled by Jayne Reaves and Helen McLaughlin, with a concept driven by Stella Byrne from Heritage Lottery Fund. 1 Contents 1: What is Commemoration? 3 2: How to Plan your own Decade of Anniversaries Project 5 3: Lessons and Tips for Ethical Commemorations 8 4: Case Studies 13 25.1. 6th6th ConnaughtConnaught RangersRangers 13 12 26.2. ArdsBelfast and City North Council Down Borough Council - Shared Education 1314 3. Belfast City Council 16 27.4. BelfastBelfast SommeSomme 100100 1518 28.5. CelebratingCommunity 2016Outreach – The Group Belfast (Jethro Story Centre) 1619 6. Churches Trust – Journey Together 20 29.7. CommemoratingCommunity Relations Partition Council and Civil Wars in Ireland, 1920-23 1721 30.8. CommemorationCreative Centenaries Through - Exhibitions Poetry and Verse 1822 9. Community Outreach Group (Jethro Centre) 23 10.31. CommunityCreative Centenaries Relations EventsCouncil 2024 11.32. CreativeCreative CentenariesCentenaries -Outreach Exhibitions 2125 12.33. CreativeCreative CentenariesWriting Responses Events to Objects with Divisive Histories 2227 13. Creative Centenaries Outreach 28 14.34. CreativeDonegal WritingCounty ResponsesMuseum to Objects with Divisive Histories 2329 15.35. DecadeEdward ofCarson Anniversaries Signs Off Schools Resource 2430 16. Donegal County Museum 31 17.36. EdwardHalfway Carson House Signs(Contemporary Off Christianity) 2532 18.37. EntwinedIreland 2016 Histories 2633 19. Ethical and Shared Remembering 34 20.38. FermanaghJoint Ireland County Commemoration Museum – Peace Studies Project 2835 21.39. HalfwayLisburn MuseumHouse (Contemporary - Lisburn Catholics Christianity) and the Great War 2936 22. Ireland 2016 37 40. Lisburn Museum - Women of the Rising and Us 31 23. Joint Ireland Commemoration 39 24.41. LisburnLisburn MuseumMuseum -- LisburnWorld War Catholics One and and Us the Great War 3240 25.42. LisburnLiving Legacies Museum 1914-18- Women - of Drama the Rising and Us 3342 26. Lisburn Museum - World War One and Us 43 27.43. LivingLiving LegaciesLegacies 1914-181914-18 -- DramaCommunity Archaeology 3444 28.44. LivingLiving LegaciesLegacies 1914-181914-18 -- CommunityPublic Engagement Archaeology Roadshows 3545 29. Living Legacies 1914-18 - Public Engagement Roadshows 46 30.45. LivingLiving LegaciesLegacies 1914-181914-18 -- RememberingRemembering 1916:1916: YourYour StoriesStories 3647 31.46. MeekeMid & andEast theAntrim Major - Carson Project 3748 32. Mid & East Antrim - Carson Project 49 33.47. MidMid && EastEast AntrimAntrim -- SommeSomme centenarycentenary eventevent 3850 34.48. NewNew PerspectivesPerspetives onon 19161916 3951 35. North Down Museum - Home, Politics and War 52 49. On the Brink - The Politics of Conflict 40 36. On the Brink - The Politics of Conflict 53 37.50. Public Public RecordRecord Office of Northern Ireland - Decade - Decade of Centenariesof Centenaries Programme Programme42 55 38.51. RuralRural CommunityCommunity NetworkNetwork - One History, Many Stories 4356 39. Rural Community Network - Understanding Commemorations 57 40.52. TheTower Box Museum - The Laurentic 4458 41.53. TheVictoria Poppy Cross and Paving the Lily Stones 4559 42. Tower Museum - The Laurentic 60 43.54. VictoriaWhat Price Cross Peace Paving Stones 4661 44. Unionist Centenary Committee 62 45. What Price Peace 63 2 What is 1:Commemoration? Types of Commemoration boundaries between groups who Commemoration marks There exist many have been in conflict, which out the special from the commemorative practices causes further division. relating to the conflict in and Sometimes competing groups try ordinary, or the about Northern Ireland and to control the meaning of extraordinary, from the these take many forms, particular commemorations, and everyday and acts of including: some can feel that the story •Fixed or semi fixed physical about certain historical events commemoration are memorials and/or murals; gets taken over by other groups about retaining in the •Memorial services and timed for their own purposes. Also, memory, or committing remembrances; commemoration can lead to the •Marches and parades; forgetting of other dimensions to the memory, events, •Music and song or memorial of historical fact that contradict developments and books; or complicate the agreed story. people from the past. •The arts – i.e. artwork, storytelling, drama; Forgetting When we mark •Endowments / commemorative The role of forgetting in relation anniversaries or other organisations, foundations, to commemoration is often important historical or awards and medals; overlooked, but forgetting isn’t • Web-based or physical always a bad thing. Concern cultural movements archives; and about forgetting what happened (e.g. labour or equality • Physical spaces for the in the past often fuels conflict movements), we assign collection of commemorative about commemorations between materials. communities, as each seek to meaning to an event, remind themselves and each occurrence, or lives of Impact of Commemoration other of historic grievances. individuals or groups Commemoration can be a mixed But that same concern about bag. On one hand, forgetting the past also has the that we deem to be commemoration can be an potential to encourage actions important to who we enjoyable experience that opens and draw communities together are as a society. up historical events in a way to ensure such grievances don’t that makes a personal impact. occur again. Commemoration can also At certain times, depending on promote acknowledgement by what issues are being dealt with pointing to a legacy of the past in society, certain that still has importance for commemorations carry more today and can be beneficial to a weight than others, and what society because it has potential may have been forgotten in the to help develop or renew past becomes important. On the relationships between opposing other hand, commemorations groups by working together to often shape society by bring conflicting views of continuing to emphasise what is history together for a shared valued through annual purpose. observance of particular events. On the other hand, As a result commemoration can commemoration can also be often vary in popularity difficult, divisive or painful. depending on current social and Many times commemoration is ideological needs. used to ritualise and harden the 3 The Future two years as a method that Being sensitive to this could assist both CRC and HLF relationship between culture, as well as others involved in society and commemoration Decade of Anniversaries events, creates space for thinking informing practice and about the ways we can providing guidance for the commemorate in a positive development