The Peace Heroines exhibition, which features nine stunning new portraits by the visual artist FRIZ, is touring worldwide from the US Congress to Áras an Uachtaráin
Recognising the growing disillusionment stemming from Northern Ireland’s political vacuum, civic society is once again stepping up. A ‘Say Yes Again’ rally in Belfast on May 20 will be held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday referendum vote.
The Northern conflict arguably began in January 1969 when loyalists violently attacked a civil rights march at Burntollet Bridge and was perhaps bookended by the Omagh bomb in August 1998 – months after the Good Friday Agreement – which turned out to be the worst atrocity of all.