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23rd March 2022 history the festival

Seeing Belfast Through a New Lens

Dolores Vischer has always loved tours…

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10th February 2021 events history

Neil Hegarty: 2031

Neil Hegarty surveys the events of a decade from the vantage point of the year 2031 – and observes a scene in which geopolitics, society, and Ireland itself are changed utterly.

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2nd March 2020 history the festival

On ‘Moral and Imaginative Quickening’

Denis Stewart suggest we apply Seamus Heaney’s ‘moral and imaginative quickening’ to the 21st Century.

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20th February 2020 events history

may tyrants tremble: the life of william drennan

Fergus Whelan discusses his book ‘May Tyrants Tremble: The Life Of William Drennan (1754-1820)’

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23rd March 2016 history society the festival

on irishness: a civic conversation

We were asked to consider what we considered to be ‘Irishness’.

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22nd March 2016 history the festival

our public love and secret chain for a politics of kindness

Philip Orr on 18th Century thinker Francis Hutcheson.

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12th March 2015 history the festival

history and historians

The role of history and historians in dealing with the past after the Stormont House Agreement.

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25th February 2015 history the festival

the historian & post-conflict society

What is the role of the historian?

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      • film
      • humour
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      • poetry + reading
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      • tours
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    • about the festival
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      • the 2022 festival
      • 2021
        • the 2021 festival
        • the state of us
        • the imagine! podcast
        • build belfast back better
        • special festival bursary: ‘art as a vehicle for change’
      • the 2020 festival
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      • the 2018 festival
      • 2017
        • the 2017 festival
        • 2017 poetry and politics
      • 2016
        • the 2016 festival
        • the public gallery 2016
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        • the 2015 festival
        • the 2015 alternative manifesto
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