Living Legacies 1914-18

第一次世界大战对当代北方爱尔兰的日常生活和文化产生了如此持久和切实的影响，在整个英国没有其他地方。北方爱尔兰（NI）作为一个政治单位的存在--诞生于1922年--在很大程度上归功于第一次世界大战以及当时大不列颠和爱尔兰之间存在的相关令人担忧的关系。在此背景下，在北爱尔兰建立一个第一次世界大战协调中心是一个令人信服的理由。北爱尔兰第一次世界大战协调中心将在正确的时间和正确的地点见证和记录2014年至2018年期间在北爱尔兰（和爱尔兰）举行的严肃而重要的第一次世界大战纪念活动。它不仅将提供手段，以确保这一重要时期本身是致力于历史，但通过其活动和资源，该中心将提供一个服务，以一个社区的极大兴趣和胃口的第一次世界大战。这对北爱尔兰的新教社区和罗马天主教社区来说都是如此--前者长期以来一直与第一次世界大战的遗产保持一致--后者现在才开始接受自己在第一次世界大战历史（和遗产）中的地位，和平进程允许人们审视长期以来隐藏的历史。NI FWW中心将作为整个NI的知识交流和研究合作的中心，通过支持两所NI大学（贝尔法斯特女王大学和阿尔斯特大学）内现有的艺术和人文专业知识和奖学金框架内的社区研究人员。它将通过与北方爱尔兰国家博物馆（NMNI）、北方爱尔兰环境署和北爱尔兰图书馆合作制定的研究培训和外联活动方案来实现这一目标。昆士兰大学和昆士兰大学具有国际地位的四个关键研究领域将用于建立社区遗产项目与学术和专业遗产研究人员之间的联系。移民历史，博物馆研究，物质文化和表演艺术与北爱尔兰社区有很大的相关性，正如最近HLF资助的北爱尔兰FWW项目所证明的那样，通过该中心，将在2014-2016年期间开发这些和其他项目，与在爱尔兰举行的第四次世界大战重要纪念活动和周年纪念活动相吻合。在这种情况下，该中心将帮助连接爱尔兰和阿尔斯特社区在英国和爱尔兰，甚至超越，把社区研究项目在全球舞台上。在这方面，该中心特别使用数字和多媒体方法，将使北爱尔兰社区能够接触到更广泛的受众和参与，为爱尔兰第四次世界大战的持久历史遗产提供新的声音，并为纪念时期本身建立一个持久的未来遗产。（见支持信），从而确保属于其职权范围的遗产机构（如国家遗产保护方案和国家图书馆）的参与。它还得到了NI内外大学部门的大力支持，包括GB的领先大学，这些大学也拥有FWW和爱尔兰的专业知识，特别是金史密斯，伦敦大学和泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔大学。NI FWW中心将促进这些研究联系，并通过它们为英国各地的社区研究人员提供一个中心，用于会议和交流有关爱尔兰和FWW的知识和专业知识。利用设施，资源和QUB的新研究所在人文科学的合作研究，中心将设在，并由一个专门的，经验丰富的，热情的面向公众的研究人员在QUB和UU的团队领导，该中心将利用在遗产和大学部门之间存在的良好的地方社区关系，以及北爱尔兰权力下放的政府部门和组织，包括社区关系理事会和HLF。

Nowhere else in the whole of the UK does the First World War (FWW) have such an enduring and tangible impact on everyday life and culture as it does in contemporary Northern Ireland. The very existence of Northern Ireland (NI) as a political unit - born in 1922 - owes so much to the FWW and the associated fraught relationships that existed between Great Britain and Ireland at that time. It is within this context that a compelling case can be made to create a FWW Coordinating Centre in NI.The NI FWW Centre will be in the right place at the right time to witness and record the serious and significant FWW commemorative activities that will occur in NI (and Ireland) between 2014 and 2018. It will provide not only the means to ensure that this momentous period is itself committed to history but through its activities and resources, the Centre will provide a service to a community with immense interest in and appetite for the FWW. This is true for both the Protestant community in NI - long aligning itself with the legacies of the FWW - as well as the Roman Catholic community, only now coming to terms with its place in the history (and heritage) of the FWW, the peace process allowing examination of what was for so long a hidden history. The NI FWW Centre will act as a hub of knowledge exchange and research coproduction across NI, through supporting community researchers within a framework of arts and humanities expertise and scholarship existing within the two NI universities, Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster. It will do so through a programme of research training and outreach events, developed through a partnership with National Museums of Northern Ireland (NMNI), the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, and Libraries NI. Four key areas of research expertise of international standing at QUB and UU will be used to forge linkages between community heritage projects and academic and professional heritage researchers.Migration history, museum studies, material culture, and performing arts have much relevance for NI communities, as is borne out by recent HLF-funded FWW projects in NI, and through the Centre these and others will be developed during 2014-2016, coinciding with key FWW commemorative events and anniversaries taking place in Ireland. In this context, the Centre will help connect Irish and Ulster communities across the UK and Ireland, and indeed beyond, putting the community research projects on a global stage. Here especially the Centre's use of digital and multimedia approaches will enable NI communities to reach a much wider audience and engagement, giving new voice to the enduring past legacies of the FWW in Ireland, as well as building a lasting future legacy of the commemorative period itself.Critically, the government of NI through the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure, fully supports this proposal (see letter of support), thus ensuring the involvement of those heritage bodies that fall within its remit (eg PRONI and Libraries NI). It also has very strong support from the university sector within NI and beyond, including leading universities in GB which also have expertise in the FWW and Ireland, notably Goldsmiths, University of London, and the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The NI FWW Centre will foster these research linkages and through them provide community researchers across the UK with a hub for meeting and exchanging knowledge and expertise about Ireland and the FWW. Using the facilities, resources and of QUB's new Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, where the Centre will be based, and led by a team of dedicated, experienced, and enthusiastic public-facing researchers at QUB and UU, the Centre will capitalise on the well-established local community relations that exist in NI between the heritage and university sectors, as well as devolved government departments and organisations in NI including the Community Relations Council (CRC) and HLF.