Accounts of the Conflict Roadshows
Posted by Prof Gillian Robinson on 1st December 2014
During October and November 2014 the Accounts of the Conflict project team worked with a number of partner organisations to deliver seven roadshows. The Roadshows aimed to engage with a…
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…
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…
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…
Preserving & Accessing Stories
Posted by Dr Martin Melaugh on 1st May 2014
There are almost as many reasons why story-telling projects are undertaken as there are organisations and groups engaged in story-telling activities. There are, however, some recurring motivations for carrying out…
Reconciliation Lessons: Verne Harris On South Africa
Posted by Guest Contributor on 17th April 2014
This post was originally published on the website of the Northern Ireland Foundation on 9 April 2014. The author is Eoin Dignan. Thanks to Eoin and the Northern Ireland Foundation…