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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).
Included in the archive are amateur and actuality film.
Online catalogue that can be searched, but access restricted to seventeen library sites across Northern Ireland, listed on the website.
archive@northernirelandscreen.co.uk