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Counterpoint (clip): Ruth McCarthy Discusing Lesbian Visibility
Counterpoint was a TV Programme broadcast in the 1990's in Northern Ireland on the Ulster Television (UTV) branch of the national television channel ITV. It was a debate format show which encouraged guest speakers to discuss a range of topical…
Reclaim The Night, 1987 (clip)
Clip of first organised Reclaim The Night Belfast march, broadcast on ITV - Ulster Television (UTV) on 19.11.1987. Reclaim The Night are a feminist group set up in 1977, with a Belfast faction. They organise an annual march in the last week of…
Counterpoint: Gay Rights - Clip of John Cross Interview
Counterpoint was a TV Programme broadcast in the 1990's in Northern Ireland on the Ulster Television (UTV) branch of the national television channel ITV. It was a debate format show which encouraged guest speakers to discuss a range of topical…
Insight: Gay Pride 1999
Insight: Gay Pride is a television programme originally broadcast on Ulster Television (UTV) in Northern Ireland in 1999. The programme covers events at Belfast Pride that year. It includes interviews with the organisers and coverage of religious…
Book review of 'A Room in the Mountains' by Sylvia Sands
A book review of 'A Room in the Mountains', an autobiographical work by LGBT Christian ally Sylvia Sands.
Original entry written by Michael Fryer 15/02/21
Original entry written by Michael Fryer 15/02/21
Outline of programme of events for the Oasis support group
An outline of events taking place in February and March 1993 for the Oasis gay support group.
Original entry written by Michael Fryer 15/02/21
Original entry written by Michael Fryer 15/02/21
Sylvia Sands' description of Oasis support group
An article from upstart magazine in which Christian LGBT ally Sylvia Sands describes the founding and ethos of the Oasis gay support group that met in Belfast in the 1980s and 1990s.
Original entry written by Michael Fryer 15/02/21
Original entry written by Michael Fryer 15/02/21
Roger Casement’s Childhood Home and School
This jumbled footage from the UTV archives (known as camera rushes) shows Murlough Bay, Casement’s childhood home, Magherintemple House and Ballymena Academy which Casement attended.
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The Reinterment of Roger Casement
49 years after his execution in Pentonville Prison in England, the body of Roger Casement was returned to Ireland for burial in the Republican plot in Glasnevin Cemetery. Here we see the funeral cortege as his body is brought to lie in state in…
The Reburial of Roger Casement
A sod of grass is removed by Gerard and Pat McCarry from the requested burial spot of Roger Casement at MurloughBay near Ballycastle. It would be buried in his grave at Glasnevin and we see the removal procession to his final resting spot in Dublin…