Projects

Title The Borderlines Project Date 2003 - ongoing... Funded By This project is part-financed by the European Union through the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by the Cross Border Consortium. Description In 2003 the Borderlines team, Gallery of photography, Dublin and Dara Training and Consultancy, conceived a significant project with the intention of making a contribution to healing from the legacy of the conflict. The project set out to listen to, to record and to create an archive of people’s personal experiences of life along the border between Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Borderlines project has three major outcomes o A substantial, beautifully produced and illustrated book containing abridged narratives of the oral transcripts with photographic images. Feb 2007. (read review ) o Borderlines exhibition- a touring exhibition installed in five museums along the border, including, (Dublin Gallery of Photography, Derry Harbour Museum, Louth County Museum, Newry and Mourne Museum, Enniskillen Castle, and Donegal County Museum , Monaghan later in 2008) o Borderlines digital oral archive. This archive containing oral and transcribed interviews and photographic images is currently being completed and will be in custodianship of the above museums and The Linen Hall Library. The process of this project has contributed to the learning of testimony as a mechanism for dealing with the legacy of conflict.

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	Title Review of the Borderlines Book Description A review of the Borderlines book by Brandon Hamber   download