Peacebuilding a shared Northern Irish society
A celebration of music journalism and Belfast’s musical legacy:book launch event for The Song is Nearly Over by Stuart Bailieby Allan LEONARD6 November 2025  On a memorable evening at The Deer's Head, music journalist Stuart Bailie launched his new book chronicling 40 years in music journalism — The Song is Nearly Over. The event featured... Continue Reading →
Muslim community and Loyalist flute band creating harmony through musicLoyalist flute bands and the Muslim community are two groups that may appear not to sit well together. There is however at least one thing that they both have in common – due to negative stereotyping they both receive a great deal of hostility.Since the beginning... Continue Reading →
Muslim community and Loyalist flute band creating harmony through musicLoyalist flute bands and the Muslim community are two groups that may appear not to sit well together. There is however at least one thing that they both have in common – due to negative stereotyping they both receive a great deal of hostility.Since the beginning... Continue Reading →
Musicking for peacebuilding Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation by Allan LEONARD 28 November 2019 The state-of-the-art acoustic facility, the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) at Queen’s University Belfast, was a most appropriate meeting place for a two-day symposium that explored the roles of music, from activist resistance to a hopeful tool for reconciliation from... Continue Reading →
Two minutes with Allan Leonard by Allan LEONARD 24 April 2018 Want to find out more about the Northern Slant team? Every week we put 10 questions to our community of contributors – about them, their interests and hopes for Northern Ireland’s future. This week’s interviewee is Allan Leonard. You can follow Allan on Twitter... Continue Reading →
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