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Norway book of condolence at Belfast City Hall
At Belfast City Hall, I signed the book of condolence in memory of those killed in the bombing and shootings in Norway on Friday, 12 July 2011: With our sincere sympathies — we in Northern Ireland can...
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10th Anniversary 9/11 Belfast ceremony
Madame Oui and I were invited guests to a ceremony held at Belfast City Hall to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA. From inside city hall we guests walked...
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Victoria Square Mall lights
After a particularly long week for both of us, Madame Oui and I enjoyed an evening meal at Victoria Square Mall. Leaving, we enjoyed the sky lights. We weren’t the only ones filming:
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Contraband at Belfast Exposed
Belfast Exposed has on display an exhibition by Taryn Simon. Entitled Contraband, to view is a sampling of 1,075 photographs of items detained or seized from passengers (and express mail) entering the...
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Titanic for sale $189 million
Cast bronze name board from Titanic cruise ship’s life boat is displayed at Christie’s in New York The entire salvaged collection of over 5,000 artefacts from RMS Titanic are going up for auction in...
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Claire’s great @teeandtoast stall at St George’s Market
Taken at St Georges Market Madame Oui and I had fun all day today, and I was pleased with several photos I shot throughout the day. This isn’t the most artistic (that probably goes to this one), but...
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Belfast peace walls: A paradox of leadership
Dr Jonny Byrne At a seminar hosted by the Institute for Research in Social Sciences and the Inter-Institute Peace and Conflict Cluster, Dr Jonny Byrne of the University of Ulster presented his findings...
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Mr Ulster learns street photography
Recently I took a one-day course on street photography, held at Belfast Exposed. My motivation was that while I learned how to use a camera 30 years ago (printing from black and white film shot in a...
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Red Red Shoes Project
At the Brian Friel Theatre (Queen’s Film Theatre) was an arts conference hosted by The Playhouse ICAN Project and the School of Creative Arts at Queen’s University. “Nine Tenths Under: Performing the...
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100th Anniversary Titanic Commemoration Service
When I arrived in Belfast in 1994, one matter that struck me as peculiar was the near neglected Titanic Memorial statue on the east lawn of Belfast City Hall. The situation became blasphemous when the...
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Radar presents Silhouette
Silhouette has particularly shot up to fame since the Northern Ireland Tourist Board selected Can’t Keep Up as the soundtrack for one of the NI2012: Our Time, Our Place video advertisements....
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Acting on shared experiences: FCT 2011 report launch
At Parliament Buildings, where the Northern Ireland Assembly sits, I was responsible for organising an event for our Forum for Cities in Transition project, which is an international network of...
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Review: Good Vibrations @QFTBelfast
Good Vibrations is a film about Belfast music legend, Terri Hooley, who was responsible for discovering The Undertones and recording Teenage Kicks (which radio DJ Jonathan Peel famously played twice...
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Slices of Belfast: A tour of Sandy Row
As part of a work group, I went on a Sandy Row Tour, discovering the history and character of this neighbourhood. We began at the well-known mural site at the entrance to Linfield Gardens — a large...
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A letter from Corinthians to Paul: Tenx9 at Belfast Photo Festival
Tenx9 is a storytelling event where nine people have up to ten minutes each to tell a real story from their lives. Storytellers and listeners meet up at the Black Box in Belfast, with a new theme each...
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Listening to the pschogeography of Belfast
One of the final events of the Four Corners Festival was a discussion on what was described as the psychogeography of the city of Belfast. A panel of four — with one connected via a video call —...
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Confident. Ambitious. Prosperous. Distinctive. Launch of Successful Belfast.
Confident. Ambitious. Prosperous. Distinctive. Launch of Successful Belfast. by Allan LEONARD for Northern Ireland Foundation 27 October 2016 Walking past the students at their tabletops, working on...
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A good afternoon @UlsterMuseum
At the Ulster Museum, my method is to head straight to the lift and go to the fifth floor, avoiding the history sections; it’s gotta be fine arts for me. My motivation today was the Francisco Goya...
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Then & Now: Belfast Blitz
Then & Now: Belfast Blitz by Allan LEONARD for Northern Slant 17 May 2017 In an apparent continuation of their Then & Now series, the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has...
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Open space photography at the Linen Hall Library
Open space photography at the Linen Hall Library by Allan LEONARD for Northern Slant 31 May 2017 Gaining inspiration from viewing the archive postcard collection at the Linen Hall Library, a group of...
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