Founding Members
INCORE
INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) addresses the causes and consequences of conflict in Northern Ireland and internationally and promotes conflict resolution management strategies.
Accounts of the Conflict
A digital archive of personal accounts of the conflict, based in Ulster University. It is designed to provide for the long-term storage of stories related to ‘the Troubles’ in, and about, Northern Ireland. The archive contains collections of personal accounts, the vast majority of which have been collected by a wide range of community-based organisations and projects across Northern Ireland and beyond. Where possible, and with the permission of the story teller, the archive contains accessible versions of the personal account in text, audio or audio-visual form. The archive also contains catalogue information on a wider range of stories related to the conflict which have been gathered over the years and are accessible through other sources. Accounts of the Conflict was funded from the European Union’s PEACE lll programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body.
Wave Trauma Centre
Wave Trauma Centre provides care and support for people affected by the Troubles/Conflict in Northern Ireland.
Since its inception, WAVE has run numerous projects, each based around a particular theme. These projects have brought together WAVE members from all backgrounds, each person with their own story to tell through their participation in the programme.
Project 2000
WAVE Youth’s first formal attempt at using art to capture the experiences of young people and children bereaved or traumatised as a result of the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland.
Visit: https://wavetraumacentre.org.uk/projects/project-2000/
Glass of Peace
This Stain Glass project was a Belfast Centre based storytelling initiative which focused on the stories of individual male clients from the greater Belfast area.
Visit: https://wavetraumacentre.org.uk/projects/glass-of-peace/
Don’t You Forget About Me
This storytelling project revolved around the creation of a stained glass window containing nineteen individual panes which were designed and created by the families and friends of the victims.
Visit: https://wavetraumacentre.org.uk/projects/dont-you-forget-about-me/
WAVE’s Got Talent
Over a number of recent years WAVE has held an annual ‘WAVE’s Got Talent’ event. This celebration of the many talents of WAVE’s client base has showcased an impressive line-up of talented musicians, singers and dancers of all ages.
Visit: https://wavetraumacentre.org.uk/projects/waves-got-talent/
Unheard Voices
Six powerful short stories of those who have lost someone or who have been injured permanently as a result of the Northern Ireland Conflict.
Visit: https://wavetraumacentre.org.uk/projects/unheard-voices/
Pat Finucane Centre
A non-party political, anti-sectarian human rights group advocating a non-violent resolution of the conflict on the island of Ireland.
Recovery of Living Memory Archive (RoLMA)
PFC’s RoLMA project provides an opportunity for families to recover the truth about the circumstances of their loved one’s death, to record and express their own truth about their experience, and ensure that there is a permanent tangible legacy for their own families and for the greater community.
Visit: https://www.patfinucanecentre.org/projects/recovery-living-memory-archive-rolma
Prisons Memory Archive
An inclusive collection of walk-and-talk recordings with those who had a connection with Armagh Gaol and Maze and Long Kesh during the conflict in Northern Ireland / the North of Ireland.
Participants in the project – including former prisoners, prison officers, visitors, journalists and educators – revisited the prison sites in 2006 and 2007. They were invited to recount their experiences there using the oral history tradition of life-storytelling.
Forthspring
Established in 1997, Forthspring Inter Community Group (Forthspring) is an inclusive and innovative organisation based in a shared space at the Springfield/Woodvale interface in Belfast.
Five Decades Project
5 Decades is a storytelling project, gathering up people’s memories and stories of the conflict in and about Northern Ireland.
Border Roads to Memories and Reconciliation
A project focusing on creating awareness among younger people about the closed border roads of the past, and the effects this had on border residents and communities.
Through a sequence of facilitated workshops, young participants listened to, worked with, and recorded older people who had experienced the closed border. The resulting interviews cover an impressive range of subjects from childhood memories of crossing the border, to social lives across the closed border, to the likely impact of Brexit on border communities.
Corrymeela
In our increasingly divided world, Corrymeela support thousands of people from different backgrounds to live well together.
UP Standing– Stories of courage from Northern Ireland
A film featuring ten diverse stories of people who stood up to violence, discrimination or prejudice in Northern Ireland.
Visit: https://www.corrymeela.org/programmes/legacies-of-conflict/film-resource-upstanding
Glórtha Aduaidh
The Glórtha Aduaidh (Northern Voices) project is a TV & Radio documentary series of previously unheard voices and stories about the conflict in the North of Ireland.
UP Standing– Stories of courage from Northern Ireland
The project documented, through the medium of TV and Radio, the issues faced by ordinary people during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. This was done by concentrating on the families of those who were directly involved.
Visit: https://accounts.ulster.ac.uk/repo24/collections/show/38/
RUC George Cross Foundation
Established for the purpose of “marking the sacrifice and honouring the achievements of the Royal Ulster Constabulary”.
The Oral History Project
A comprehensive oral history archive of first hand recollections of all aspects of policing Northern Ireland in recent times compiled and made available to as wide an audience as possible. The material collected is available, subject to agreed conditions, for bona fide research, writing and analysis.
Border Lives Project
An Oral History project telling the everyday stories from people living along the Northern Ireland border during the Troubles. SEUPB & PEACE III Funded.
An exciting storytelling project that has produced six short films. It also has extended interviews with 18 of participants, an interactive timeline that explains the history of the Irish Border in the 20th century, and maps of each of the areas covered by the films.
Project information: https://peaceplatform.seupb.eu/en/peace-platform/project/view/22102/
Sample video (January Preview): https://peaceplatform.seupb.eu/en/peace-platform/video/view/134/
Sample video (The Other Laggan Preview): https://peaceplatform.seupb.eu/en/peace-platform/video/view/135/
Peace Process Layers of Meaning
A three year project on the Peace Process.
Core components included the creation of a heritage interview archive, the delivery of oral history training, the stimulation and completion of local projects, and the development of online resources relating to the Peace Process.
Dúchas Oral History Archive
Falls Community Council set up the Dúchas oral history project in 1999 to record the experience of the conflict in West Belfast.
Falls Community Council envisaged the Dúchas archive as a tool for learning and for conflict resolution as well as leaving a legacy to the future. The initial focus of the archive was on the community of nationalist West Belfast but from an early stage there were efforts to also collect experiences from people in other communities situated differently in relation to the conflict.
Visit: http://www.duchasarchive.com/
The Pieces of the Past
This project records and archive oral histories of the experience of the conflict in Belfast through cross community partnerships and development of the Dúchas oral history archive.
NIMMA
“Supporting couples who are united in love across traditional Christian divisions and promoting acceptance of these relationships within Northern Ireland society.”
The Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (NIMMA) provided a voice for people in mixed marriage through the publication of a trilogy which captured their personal stories. Exiles provided the perspective of those who left Northern Ireland due to being in a mixed relationship.
Both Sides Now documents the lives and stories of children raised within a mixed marriage. They reflect on their childhood experience within a mixed marriange and in their own words provide commentary on their personal experience.
All love stories are unique and the ten accounts of mixed marriage told in the latest NIMMA publication “Mixed emotions” are no exception. Couples share their collective experience, stretching over seven decades. You learn how society has changed and yet how it remains the same. Their reveal how relationships can be made to blossomin face of opposition and we learn how to aspire and achieve far beyond our common divisions.
Visit: http://www.nimma.org.uk/
Sharp Focus: Crossing the Divide
A four part TV series; part documentary, part drama.
The project briought four groups of young people from disadvantaged areas affected by the conflict, North and South of the Border, together with professional film makers on the production of four short films. Each film focussed on a particular event that took place during the conflict, and each film explored the impact this event had on the participants’ communities.
Visit: https://peaceplatform.seupb.eu/en/peace-platform/project/view/22118/
