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The Return of Colmcille

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The spectacle of The Return of Colmcille on the River Foyle in the summer of 2013 was the brainchild of writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, who delivered the stand-out moment of Derry-Londonderry’s year as the UK City of Culture. In a magical reworking of the story of St Columba, the story began on the Isle of […]

Clear The Stage

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In little more than a decade, Buncrana native Frank McGuinness has produced a body of startlingly imaginative work that has played to audiences all over the world. His plays cross social, cultural, and political divides best exemplified in his ground–breaking work Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and its companion piece Carthaginians, […]

NYPD Nude

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When New York Police Department officer Carol Shaya posed nude for Playboy magazine, she drew the wrath of many of her female colleagues. They felt that her striptease in uniform knocked their progress back by twenty years. The debate about the crossover between work and private life had already arisen in 1983 when Sergeant Cibella […]

A Plague on Both Your Houses

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Couples from mixed Protestant and Catholic marriages recount the difficulties they’ve encountered in a divided society, including rejection by their families, friction in the workplace, intimidation in their neighbourhoods, and the bullying suffered by their children for choices made by their parents. They also detail their strategies of resistance and survival, and significant instances of […]

You Looking At Me?

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Sparks fly in this upbeat and funny film about the lives of Mei, Kenny, Ciaran, and Niamh, four young people coping with a tangle of friendships, family life, and local politics in Belfast.  Mei, a local Chinese girl, finds that falling in love with Kenny, a Protestant boy, is far from simple as they try […]

Looking for Lundy

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Colonel Robert Lundy has become infamous as the archetypal traitor who betrayed the cause of the besieged Protestants in the walled city of Derry in 1688/89. Each December his effigy is ritually burned in memory of the victorious outcome of the battle between Protestant King William and Catholic King James II. It is also as […]