Lisa Rea Currie
@lisareacurrie.bsky.social
Heritage practitioner, researcher, mummy’s taxi, believer in liberation.
Another great project developed by the Centre for Public History at QUB
Lisa Rea Currie appointed AHRC Community Innovation Practitioner on BeHere Project
Queen’s has been awarded a Community Innovation Practitioner (CIP) Award for 2025-26, as part of the Creative Communities programme, funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and ...
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This is a beautiful song. Lay your flags and titles down Take your place in this common ground 💚
Hearts of Down@heartsofdown.bsky.social · last yr.This is the song, Bully's Acre, written by Maurice Macartney, that appears at the end of The Forgotten Famine film. It is performed Stephen Macartney and Maurice. Hear it in full. Click the link below. In so many ways it captures the heart and soul of the film. www.heartsofdown.org/work/bullys-...
When I try to explain what I do as a heritage practitioner, it is a bit nebulous- varies from project to project, but it’s about giving voice to the voiceless. This project brought that to my own front door. Remembrance belongs to us. youtu.be/3i6-cHvtP6c?...
The Forgotten Famine
YouTube video by Hearts of Down
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Excellent short film telling a story of forgotten local history. Very promising start to a project and account worth following.
Hearts of Down@heartsofdown.bsky.social · last yr.Our short film about the Great Hunger in Newtownards. There are Bully’s Acres all over Ireland – mass graves, where victims of an Gorta Mór and harsh workhouse regimes lie buried. ‘The Forgotten Famine’ is about one of them, in a quiet corner of County Down… www.heartsofdown.org/work/the-for...
When I mentioned the subject matter of this excellent film to a few local wise old heads last night they were like..yep, we know this. That's why it's so important that an under-told story is being introduced to new audiences. Worth a watch.
Hearts of Down@heartsofdown.bsky.social · last yr.Our short film about the Great Hunger in Newtownards. There are Bully’s Acres all over Ireland – mass graves, where victims of an Gorta Mór and harsh workhouse regimes lie buried. ‘The Forgotten Famine’ is about one of them, in a quiet corner of County Down… www.heartsofdown.org/work/the-for...
Our short film about the Great Hunger in Newtownards. There are Bully’s Acres all over Ireland – mass graves, where victims of an Gorta Mór and harsh workhouse regimes lie buried. ‘The Forgotten Famine’ is about one of them, in a quiet corner of County Down… www.heartsofdown.org/work/the-for...
The Forgotten Famine — Hearts of Down
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This is our first newsletter from Belfast Street Names, it is really fun project to be part of and we are always keen to crowd source local knowledge and invite everyone into the conversation, so please feel free to get in touch www.belfaststreetnames.com/uploads/file...
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We are making things. Some of them will be ready soon :) Films, podcasts, essays, conversations. Stories from the County Down underground.
Wordle 1,446 6/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Just to keep my feet on the ground after yesterday
Wordle 1,445 2/6 🟩⬛🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Think this is worth a share!
Target - write 500 words this morning! Success- 500 words achieved Failure - it is just the previous 500 words repeated in a slightly different way 🙀
Allotmenting! Peas, beans, potatoes, all coming on well. And Twiggy my elder tree might be a few years yet before they’re big enough to help me make wine or keep the devil away!
3 months in and the allotment is starting to look less like a mud bath.
Last night was the first public outing of the community co-designed board game Cattle Battle! Play as a character from early Medieval Ireland, experience highs and lows depending on your status in life!Currently available to play in Carrickfergus Museum, but we are working on a version for purchase
A great read by Paul here! Who would have thought Scott was so embedded in our cultural landscape?
Paul Tempan@namedropper.bsky.social · last yr.www.belfaststreetnames.com/great-scott/ A new blog about Sir Walter Scott, his cultural influence in Ireland and his legacy, including Belfast street names which honour his works
Looking forward to this! I loved her Rejuvenation trilogy!
Gaynor Kane@gaynorkanepoet.bsky.social · last yr.Yay, a new book is on the way from Byddi Lee! #booksky
My offer to share ‘my Irish’ with Claire in her brilliant article here comes full circle as last Christmas’s dna tests show me, her and her da share the same ancestor 😂
Claire Mitchell@clairemitchell.bsky.social · last yr.I wrote this 5 years ago when I started Irish classes. My granny is mentioned, as she had the language in her family records. Super unionist, Shankill Protestant roots. My dad just got his DNA results. My granny comes up as almost exclusively Irish. So many questions. humag.co/features/nor...