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The Northern Ireland Music Archive is a digital archive of materials related to music from Northern Ireland. It is based on a publicly accessible computer system situated in the Music Library at Belfast Central Library, Belfast, County Antrim. The archive has been funded and developed by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. [1]
In October 1922, the Irish Free State government established the North-Eastern Boundary Bureau, a government office which by 1925 had prepared 56 boxes of files to argue its case for large areas of Northern Ireland to be transferred to the Free State. [60] Northern Ireland remained a part of the United Kingdom, albeit under a separate system of ...
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26 January – First staging of Sam Thompson's play Over the Bridge, at the Empire Theatre, Belfast. [2]13–18 February - Orson Welles opens for the last time in a stage production, his adaptation Chimes at Midnight with the Gate Theatre Company, at the Grand Opera House, Belfast (transferring in March to Dublin).
Burntollet Bridge was the setting for an attack on 4 January 1969 during the first stages of the Troubles of Northern Ireland. [1] [2] A People's Democracy march from Belfast to Derry was attacked by Ulster loyalists whilst passing through Burntollet.
In 1970, they undertook their most ambitious project with the release of the six-track concept album, Peace on Earth. The record featured new material from well-known songwriters such as Jimmy Webb , with linking narration by Irish actor, Micheál MacLiammóir .
William Brown (1943 – 6 June 1999) was a musician and artist from Northern Ireland. He was a singer, saxophonist, and pianist with The Freshmen , an Irish showband of the 1960s and 1970s. Life
31 March – Northern Ireland Railways runs the last regular steam-hauled passenger train on a national network in the British Isles, 17.25 Whitehead, County Antrim–Carrickfergus, hauled by Class WT 2-6-4 tank locomotive No. 4. 3 April – Garda Richard Fallon (Republic of Ireland policeman) murdered on duty in Dublin.