the Troubles Archives - Dead Centre Tours https://deadcentretours.com/category/the-troubles/ DC Tours: Belfast's No.1 Walking Tour Company Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:39:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 The 1974 Ulster Worker’s Strike, Fifty Years On https://deadcentretours.com/2024/04/24/1974-ulster-workers-strike-fifty-years-on/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:38:52 +0000 https://deadcentretours.com/?p=2884 There will undoubtedly be a lot written about the Ulster Workers’ strike this year, as we mark its fiftieth anniversary. I was interested in looking at it from a civilian perspective, because that’s what we do at DC Tours. Most of us were young children when it happened, and of course we felt far [...]

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]]> The history of Belfast’s Europa Hotel in three great videos https://deadcentretours.com/2024/01/20/the-history-of-belfasts-europa-hotel-in-three-great-videos/ Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:12:57 +0000 https://deadcentretours.com/?p=2726 Donzo recently made a video with Irish travel website Ireland Before You Die about the history of Belfast’s famous Europa Hotel. Watch his three minute potted history and then dive a little deeper with a BBC archive report from the 1970s and an in-depth documentary by Al-Jazeera.

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]]> DC Tours joins the Conflict and Legacy Interpretive Network https://deadcentretours.com/2023/09/04/dc-tours-joins-the-conflict-and-legacy-interpretive-network/ Mon, 04 Sep 2023 13:36:27 +0000 https://deadcentretours.com/?p=2570 We are delighted to have been approved for membership of the Conflict and Legacy Interpretive Network, a group of museums and heritage organisations who are working together to look at how best to collect, interpret and share conflict history.

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]]> Sir Charles Brett – the man who recorded Belfast’s built heritage https://deadcentretours.com/2023/08/26/sir-charles-brett-belfasts-built-heritage/ Sat, 26 Aug 2023 14:22:28 +0000 https://deadcentretours.com/?p=2549 If you have any interest in Belfast architecture you will have heard of Sir Charles Brett (1928-2005), whether as the author C.E.B. Brett, or Charlie Brett. He was a fascinating figure, a solicitor who was variously a politician, historian, artist, journalist, writer and conservationist.

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]]> Cleaning up Belfast’s Forgotten Memorial https://deadcentretours.com/2023/07/13/cleaning-belfasts-forgotten-memorial/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:45:37 +0000 https://deadcentretours.com/?p=2500 The only public memorial to victims of the troubles in Belfast was defaced by graffiti last year. After six months nothing had been done to restore it, so we cleaned it up ourselves.

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]]> The most bombed hotel in Europe….is actually the Sarajevo Holiday Inn https://deadcentretours.com/2023/06/01/most-bombed-hotel-europe-sarajevo-holiday-inn/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:19:14 +0000 https://deadcentretours.com/?p=2439 You'll often hear Belfast’s Europa Hotel described as “Europe’s most bombed hotel”, but if anywhere deserves to hold that dubious honour it’s actually the Sarajevo Holiday Inn.

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]]> Peace and Beyond 2023 https://deadcentretours.com/2023/05/24/peace-and-beyond-2023/ Wed, 24 May 2023 16:26:37 +0000 https://deadcentretours.com/?p=2380 In April we participated in a week-long international arts and cultural programme hosted by the British Council Northern Ireland called Peace and Beyond 2023: The Role of Arts in Divided and Polarised Societies to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

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]]> Donzo makes an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe https://deadcentretours.com/2023/05/09/donzo-makes-an-appearance-on-msnbcs-morning-joe/ Tue, 09 May 2023 20:15:36 +0000 https://deadcentretours.com/?p=2361 How we ended up in a segment on MSNBC's Morning Joe, along with Bob Geldof, Malachi O'Doherty and a Belfast punk outfit called Gender Chores!

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]]> Silent Testimony https://deadcentretours.com/2023/04/09/silent-testimony/ Sun, 09 Apr 2023 15:38:03 +0000 https://deadcentretours.com/?p=2319 Belfast artist Colin Davidson's exhibition 'Silent Testimony' is on show at the Long Gallery in Stormont until the 30th of April, so we took the opportunity to revisit this powerful series of paintings.

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]]> Donzo features in BBC Newsline piece on the Good Friday Agreement https://deadcentretours.com/2023/04/03/donzo-bbc-newsline-good-friday-agreement/ Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:06:31 +0000 https://deadcentretours.com/?p=2300 We were recently approached by BBC Newsline's Sara Girvin with a great idea she had for a feature on the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. She wanted to take a group of young people from the "Peace Generation" (born after the agreement was signed in 1998) on a trip across Belfast to find out how they felt about the changes that have taken place in Belfast over the last 25 years.

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