This section provides information on commemoration and memorials to the conflict in Northern Ireland. The section includes a new database of information and an initial selection of photographs of a of physical memorials that are located in public spaces across the region. Additional photographs have already been taken and will be available in the future.

Memorials and commemoration Background to the topic.

Paper: McDowell, Introduction to Commemoration McDowell, Sara. (2007). Introduction to Commemoration, and to Commemoration in Northern Ireland. Web: CAIN.

Paper: Nagle, Commemoration and Peace-Building Nagle, John. (2008). 'From Mourning to Melancholia? The Ambivalent Role of Commemoration in Facilitating Peace-Building in Northern Ireland', Early draft of paper published in the Irish Journal of Anthropology, 11(1): 28-34. ISSN: 1393-8592. Web: CAIN.

Memorials search page The main search facility for information and photographs of physical memorials.

Structure of memorials database A description of the structure of the database with details of the variables/fields in the databse.

Sample page An example of the output from the memorials database.

Memorials App The Northern Ireland Memorials iPhone App, which uses the information in the memorials database, was launched by INCORE and CAIN on 4th March 2013.

Quilts As part of the AHRC-funded project an assciated site was compiled containing information about quilts and arpilleras, some of which were produced by victims and survivors of the Northern Ireland conflict.