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A changing uniqueness – The changing ‘place’ of the West

The population of Western Ireland declined dramatically between 1891 and 1961. How do you think this affected Ireland as a whole?

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History & The Arts

What was the Easter Rising?

How close did the Easter Rising come to achieving the aims of its leaders?

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Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

What is synthesis? Discover how this way of thinking helps us to understand more about the way in which places retain their uniqueness within wider systems of interdependence.

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Society, Politics & Law

Derry Air: the new local history

After anthropologist and Emeritus Professor of the OU, Ruth Finnegan, OBE, FBA took a trip to her birthplace she reflected afresh about the sources scholars use and the importance of memory, imagination and sounds, the feeling of a place.

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Bird ringing in Bog Meadows

Bird ringing is a world-wide method of finding out where birds migrate and how population levels change. This video shows how it works in Bog Meadows, a city nature reserve a few metres from the M1 motorway in Northern Ireland.

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Beaghmore Stone Circle

Discover the legacy of the first farmers in the Beaghmore Stone Circle landscape of Neolithic, Norman and Plantation farmers throughout Northern Ireland.

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Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh

Learn about seabirds in enormous numbers, the changing appearance of the landscape as plant species changed with the changing temperatures and a relict fish that’s being conserved by local volunteers.

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Glenariff to Fermanagh

A look at Glenariff, one of the 9 Glens of Antrim, investigating how certain geological features managed to find their way to places they would not normally be.

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