Conference: Less Than a Week to Go
Posted by Dr Adrian Grant on 13th November 2014
The Accounts of the Conflict International Conference is now only days away. “Digitally Archiving Stories for Peacebuilding” takes place at the Holiday Inn, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast on 17-18 November. Interest…
Problems Maintaining Interviewee Anonymity in a Small Region
Posted by Dr Martin Melaugh on 21st October 2014
Anyone reviewing story-telling outputs related to the Northern Ireland conflict will be aware that different approaches have been adopted when it comes to the issue of whether or not to…
Accounts of the Conflict International Conference
Posted by Dr Adrian Grant on 30th September 2014
Work on the Accounts of the Conflict digital archive is reaching an advanced stage with the project team busy preparing and adding content to the archive, repository and website. The…
Mind Your Language! A Beginners Guide to Northern Ireland?
Posted by Dr Brendan Lynn on 23rd September 2014
In recent months one of the issues discussed by colleagues has been the use of terms to allow people to search the range of stories that will be found in…
Defining a ‘Story’
Posted by Dr Martin Melaugh on 11th August 2014
During the process of developing the idea of the Accounts of the Conflict story-telling archive, the question of what constitutes a ‘story’ had to be addressed. The preferred approach of…
Accounts of the Conflict: Computing Infrastructure Overview
Posted by Mr Mike McCool on 16th June 2014
Accounts of the Conflict Computing Infrastructure Overview Because of the sensitive nature of the data that will be collected and archived by the Accounts of the Conflict project it is…
International Links (2)
Posted by Dr Adrian Grant on 2nd June 2014
The is the second post in a series. For part one, please click here. Having attended the Build Peace conference at MIT over the weekend of 5-6 April, I moved…
A Personal Reflection on Researching in Northern Ireland
Posted by Prof Gillian Robinson on 23rd May 2014
Working with colleagues and the wider story telling community in Northern Ireland on the Accounts of the Conflict project has been a privilege for me but also a time to…
Piecing the Diverse Narratives of the Past Together
Posted by Ms Gráinne Kelly on 19th May 2014
Months on from the paramilitary ceasefires of 1994, the Northern Irish poet and playwright Damien Gorman (pictured above) wrote an article in Fortnight Magazine. It began: Rightly or wrongly, I…
International Links
Posted by Dr Adrian Grant on 9th May 2014
In the first of two posts on the subject, Adrian Grant outlines the international links of Accounts of the Conflict and reports on his recent visits to Boston and Washington…