The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is delighted to invite you to an onsite presentation by Louise Purbrick and Cahal McLaughlin.
- Date(s)
- March 30, 2023
- Location
- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter, Belfast BT3 9HQ
- Time
- 14:00 - 15:00
- Price
- Free
****** PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN ONSITE IN PERSON EVENT ONLY ******
A new book on the Maze/Long Kesh prison, one that took some twenty years to write, is published this month.
Louise Purbrick, author of “H Blocks: an Architecture of the Conflict in and about Northern Ireland” (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Cahal McLaughlin, Director of the Prisons Memory Archive (PMA) one of the editors of the recent collection, “Prisons Memory Archive: a Case study in Filmed Memory of Conflict” (Vernon Press, 2022) will discuss the material and historical record of the H Blocks, how its site, its documents, including its audiovisual documents held in the PMA, can be investigated and contribute to collective and memory of the conflict.
Image: Plan of Maze/Long Kesh found in the administration building: photo Louise Purbrick 2003
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