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CENTENARY COMMEMORATIONS
• Neutral venues• Open to all• Events, including talks, workshops and
exhibitions• In all libraries, not just Heritage
locations
PARTNERS
• Community Relations Council• PRONI• QUB Living Legacies• East Belfast Great War Project• 6th Connaught Rangers Research
Project
DECADE SO FAR
• 1912 Ulster Covenant• 1912 Titanic• 1913 Suffragettes• 1914 start of The Great War• Moving on to commemorate 1916• Program is evolving
SOCIAL MEDIA
• Great War 1914 - newspaper headlines posted on Facebook and Twitter in 2014
• Easter Rising and the Somme 1916 headlines will be posted in 2016
• Use of our regional newspapers gives a local perspective
LETTERS FROM THE GREAT WAR
• Letters sent by staff in Belfast libraries from the Front
• Being digitised now
• Will be on our website
LETTERS FROM THE GREAT WAR
Coulson to Elliott 22 January 1916
“I don’t know whether a letter from the trenches is a novelty to you, but this one is being written in a dug out in the front line, written little more than 100 yards of the enemy, which in itself will explain the dirt on the paper by the time the letter is written.”
Fitzsimons to Elliott 13 October 1916
“Like huge stars they rise to a great height, illuminating no mans land and the country side around.”
LETTERS FROM THE GREAT WAR
LETTERS FROM THE GREAT WAR
Fitzsimons to Goldsborough 6 June 1919
“All the terrible scars of war have been camouflaged by nature. The shell holes and trenches are ablaze with poppies and other coloured flowers.”
CONCLUSION
Thank you for listening
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www.librariesni.org.uk
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