Féile an Phobail (Festival of the People) is an annual community arts festival in West Belfast. Established in 1988, the inaugural festival comprised a simple parade of bands and floats and street parties in West Belfast. Since then the festival has grown into one of the largest community festivals in Ireland.
The contents of this archive include events brochures and flyers documenting the cultural events of Féile an Phobail from 1991-2019.
The extraORDINARYwomen project at the Linen Hall Library has one fundamental goal: to celebrate the significance of ordinary women’s lives in Northern Ireland. As part of Ciara McAllister's PhD research, Ciara explored the Theatre and Performing Arts collections in the Linen Hall Library, looking specifically at materials relating to community arts.
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Anna Lo discusses her election journey, making change for a better future and her debut in politics. A tough campaigning journey proved to be fruitful as she made history by becoming ‘the first non-white elected politician in Northern Ireland and more astonishingly, the first China-born parliamentarian in Europe.’
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Carol Moore, a co-founder of Charabanc Theatre Company, talks about the exciting first years of the company, and what she describes as ‘a journey of female empowerment’.
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