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Peace Process History

Digital Film Archive (DFA)

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This online catalogue provides information on the moving images available on Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive. The archive contains audio-visual material relating to Northern Ireland from 1897-2000, but access to the film clips is only possible at seventeen sites listed on the website. It holds a range of broadcast news, drama and documentary programmes pertaining to the recent conflict. Included in the archive is: Apprentice Boys parading through Derry (1969); Chichester-Clarke at No. 10 (1969); Derry/Londonderry parade and Bernadette Devlin (1969); burning of houses and buildings in Derry/Londonderry (1969); James Callaghan visiting Belfast (1969); riots in Derry/Londonderry (1969); the Widgery Tribunal (1972); British troops on patrol in Belfast (1970); going to school in Belfast (1970); children of Belfast (1970); a Belfast playground (1971); British Troops in Derry/Londonderry (1972); IRA violence in Northern Ireland (1972); Orangemen on Parade (1972); panorama over Belfast (1973); the Shankill, Belfast (1973); the Shankill Butchers (1979); the Teebane bomb (1992); Major and Reynolds’ Joint Declaration for Peace (1993); the Rising Sun Bar Shooting (1993); the Shankill bomb (1993); the lifting of the broadcasting ban (1994); the IRA ceasefire (1994); the Loughinisland shooting (1994); the Loyalist ceasefire (1994); Bill Clinton in Belfast (1995); Clinton’s Speech (1995); the end of the IRA ceasefire (1996); the Manchester bomb (1996); the IRA statement on the restoration of the 1994 ceasefire (1997); violence following the Orange march on the Garvaghy Road (1997); emergence of the Real IRA (1998); the Good Friday Agreement (1998); John Hume and David Trimble awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1998); John Hume interviewed about the Omagh bombing (1998).

Strengths:

Included in the archive are amateur and actuality film.

Access:

Online catalogue that can be searched, but access restricted to seventeen library sites across Northern Ireland, listed on the website.

Contact:

archive@northernirelandscreen.co.uk

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