71 Internment

Internment – Operation Demetrius – was reintroduced on Monday 9th August 1971, whereby British Forces arrested 342 individuals in mass arrests – the majority of whom were Catholic Nationalists – in a variety of raids, and held them for questioning in temporary camps. 17 people died over the following two days, 10 of whom were

The Arms Crisis

Narrative Cards – Proofing and Testing

Final Proofs(?)

Just returned from the local printers (thanks, PDC Greenock!)

“Any man’s death diminishes me…”

“Any man`s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind” (No Man is an Island, John Donne, 1572-1631).

Paddy Coyle

Paddy Coyle was only thirteen years old when he was photographed by Pulitzer-prize winner, Clive Limpkin in Derry, holding a petrol bomb and wearing an adult’s Second World War gas mask during the ‘Battle of the Bogside’ in 1969. Coyle would be immortalised as ‘the boy in the mask’, one of the most recognisable images

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

I am presenting at the Ministry of Defence’s DSTL Connections UK event on Wednesday, whereupon I shall discuss the educational benefits of narrative in conjunction with serious games.

#31 Bernadette Devlin Elected

On 15th April, 1969, in a by-election to the Westminster parliament Bernadette Devlin, standing as a Unity candidate in Mid-Ulster, won the contest. At 21 years of age she became the youngest woman ever to be elected as a Member of Parliament (MP). “I will take your seat and fight for your rights” which alluded

259 Formal Talks at Stormont

After the announcement on Friday 29th August, 1997 by Marjorie (Mo) Molam, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) ceasefire had been sufficiently well observed for Sinn Féin (SF) to enter the multi-party talks, Sinn Féin (SF) signed up to the Mitchell Principles and entered the multi-party-talks at Stromont