Visual Art

White Box

FLASH BACK

An agreement to set up an Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is signed by the B

RANDOM PICK

Memorials: Upper Springfield Road

Public memorials express choices made between what will be forgotten of history and what remembered. Celebrating, condemning or consoling, memorials take sides and yet, traditionally, war memorials exist to create a sense of closure and consensus. In the particular circumstances of Belfast, memorials invariably serve to dramatise difference and heighten tension. From city centre monument to the murals and gardens of local communities, memorials t