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The history of Belfast, a strange case of shared identity and sectarian division
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English - March 24, 2021 13:00 - 9 minutes - 22.7 MBSociety & Culture Arts history politics philosophy economics history of art psychology sociology law humanities social sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this talk, Marianne Elliot reflects on the existence and history of a 'shared space' Belfast identity, focusing particularly on the 1940s and 1950s, but also on post-Good Friday Agreement efforts to restore 'shared' living spaces, so damaged by the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Speaker: Professor Marianne Elliot FBA, Professor Emerita, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
This talk was part of the Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics.
Image: Children marching for peace. © Leif Skoogfors / Corbis Historical via Getty Images.