A new art project is challenging Belfast’s reputation as the ‘race hate capital of the UK’, revealing an important gap between the presentation of migrants as a political category and their own experience and identities, says Sonia Banaszczyk.
Did journalists do enough to defend human rights during the troubles in Northern Ireland? That was a key question in a fascinating debate in Belfast last week under the auspices of Amnesty International and Féile an Phobail.
There can be little doubt as to the public mood about politics in Northern Ireland. It ranges from apathy through annoyance to anger.
Anti-politics can be cheap and cynical. But
