Breathe Me: What do you do for a living? Coleman: Breathe. —Coleman, The Cuan, Strangford #tumblr
Rewrite our future! Washington Ireland Program Thanksgiving Ball 2017
Rewrite our future! Washington Ireland Program Thanksgiving Ball 2017 by Allan LEONARD 25 November 2017 The Thanksgiving Ball has become an annual tradition of the Washington Ireland Program, held at this time of year in recognition of the generosity of families in America who host visiting participants. Tonight’s event, with several hundred attending at the... Continue Reading →
Mr Turner’s apples
Mr Turner’s apples by Allan LEONARD 27 September 2017 The Allison Collection held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) consists of about 1,550 photographs and 34 volumes from Allison Photographic Studios between circa 1900 and 1950. The studios were established by Herbert Thackwray Allison, who came to Ireland in 1881 with his... Continue Reading →
Exhibition launch: “We Lived It: The Social Impact of the Troubles” @TheLinenHall
Exhibition launch: “We Lived It: The Social Impact of the Troubles” @TheLinenHall by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News 2 August 2017 The Linen Hall Library has presented the first of two exhibitions of its Divided Society digitisation and outreach project. “We Lived It: The Social Impact of the Troubles” contains artwork, imagery, ephemera, and... Continue Reading →
Art, peace and reconciliation: In conversation with Rita Duffy
Art, peace and reconciliation: In conversation with Rita Duffy by Allan LEONARD 11 May 2017 At the last lecture in the spring series of events hosted by the Mitchell Institute of Peace at Queen’s University Belfast, artist Rita Duffy conversed with Professor Fiona Magowan, on how she has applied her creativity to help better understand... Continue Reading →
Broken deed #religion #Donegal #Ireland #streetphotography http://ift.tt/2ntjwJf
Using art to fill in gaps of our reconciliation
Using art to fill in gaps of our reconciliation: DFAT Reconciliation Networking Forum by Allan LEONARD 14 December 2016 At the eleventh annual convening of a reconciliation network organised by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Ireland), an afternoon panel discussion explored the role of the arts in Northern Ireland’s reconciliation process. Entitled “Culture,... Continue Reading →
Confident. Ambitious. Prosperous. Distinctive. Launch of Successful Belfast.
Confident. Ambitious. Prosperous. Distinctive. Launch of Successful Belfast. by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News 27 October 2016 Walking past the students at their tabletops, working on their assignments with mock constructions at the School of Architecture at the Ulster University Belfast campus, there was no mistaking that I found the venue for the launch... Continue Reading →
Sir, – Once upon a time, I was an ardent nationalist; it wasn’t, in retrospect, an intellectual position. I was younger then and easily moved by simplistic slogans and melancholic tunes. Education, maturity and the power of empathy ended my conceited sense of myself as belonging to a race of people that were intrinsically more... Continue Reading →
British identity and Northern Ireland
Sir, – Once upon a time, I was an ardent nationalist; it wasn’t, in retrospect, an intellectual position. I was younger then and easily moved by simplistic slogans and melancholic tunes. Education, maturity and the power of empathy ended my conceited sense of myself as belonging to a race of people that were intrinsically more... Continue Reading →
Mark Duffy: Rising To The Surface (SMBHmag)
How many times have you shouted at a politician on the television? How many times have you heard them repeat the same inane, lamentable sound-bite contrary to the argument at hand? The politician is a creature apart: they claim altruistic vocation yet for a large majority the nature of the beast is careerist narcissism. It... Continue Reading →
There are eight uncanny similarities in the upcoming plebiscite across Colombia on 2nd October, with ours of May 1998: 1. There will be a focussed, sharp six-week campaign only; partly, like us, to avoid ‘unravelling’, but also presenting challenges in communicating a 20,000 word complex, sometimes ‘constructively ambiguous’, legal-jargon text to a confused and uncertain... Continue Reading →