Remembering, Forgiving and Forgetting – Civic Conversation at Queen’s, 24 October

The Institute for Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen’s will host a one-day civic conversation on ‘Remembering, Forgiving and Forgetting’ on Friday 24 October in the Great Hall. The conversation follows on from an event last month (17 September) that launched the series of the civic conversations on ‘Building a United Community.’ At that event, two speakers – one academic and one from the community – addressed five different issues before the floor was open for comment and conversation. …

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Peter Taylor hooks up with the boy turned retired IRA volunteer..

The Firemen have done a sterling job in clipping telling detail from Peter Taylor’s documentary Who Won The War. You can find them all on our Facebook page. But I wanted to clip this one myself… With the possible exception of Jim Pryor, almost everyone else Taylor talks to is trying to play some contemporary angle, from the two FMs, to Tony Blair and Jackie McDonald. Sean McKinley doesn’t, and his confession of confidence and fealty to Adams and McGuinness …

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Photo of the day – Lough Neagh at Sunset

An idyllic Photo of Lough Neagh by Charles Murray Lough Neagh is the largest lake in Northern Ireland, supplying forty percent of its water; the biggest on the island of Ireland, the biggest by area in the United Kingdom, and the biggest by area in the British Isles. With an area of 151 square miles (392 km2), it is the largest lake on the Island of Ireland, the fifteenth largest freshwater lake within the European Union and is ranked thirty-first in the List …

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