March

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TV:

The Wild West, BBC TWO Fri 9 Mar, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm 60mins
The Gunfight at the OK Corral. It was the most famous shoot out in history. After just 30 seconds of murderous gunfire three men lay dead and two badly wounded. And in that frantic half a minute, a legend was born: the legend of the righteous lawman - Wyatt Earp. But as the gunsmoke cleared, Earp wasn't seen as a hero. He was charged with murder and put on trial for this life. So, was Wyatt Earp truly guilty of murdering innocent men? [S]


RADIO:

A Short History of Ireland: Every week night from March 12 onwards BBC Radio Ulster, 6.55pm.
The Rich and Turbulent Story of Ireland, from the ice age to World War II. An epic tale in five-minute episodes, every week day for a year.

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EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS:

Out of the Darkness - Photography Exhibition
A photographic history of The Troubles.
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. Begins Thursday 8th March

St Patrick's Day Celebrations - Ballymena
Park & Ride service continually from Ecos to Buckna car park to Slemish 9:00 - 16:00. Last Coach departing from Slemish at 17:00.

Please Note:- 50p charge for return trip (children under 5 free)

Information Wands available to hire - refundable deposit of £5 from Slemish. Free entertainment at Ecos Centre where enjoyable programme of activities is available. Seven FM broadasting live. Visitors will be able to enjoy traditional music, face painting, and some traditional Irish fare.

Date: 17/03/2007

Ballymoney Museum Talks
The Customs we Keep 8.00pm Admission £1 includes refreshments. Customs or traditions associated with such events as births, deaths and marriages are still strongly observed in North Antrim and are just some of the topics covered in this comprehensive review of the folklore of our area.

Date 21/03/2007 - 21/03/2007
Location Ballymoney Town Hall
Phone (028) 2766 0230

Broughshane Historical Society
Speaker - Alan Turner
Subject - "Landscapes of the Glen's of Antrim"

Date: 28/03/2007
Location: Houston's Mill, Broughshane
Start time: 19:45
Admission: £2.00 payable at door

Cultural Diversity Show - St. Patrick's Day Celebrations, Banbridge
Celebrate St Patrick’s weekend with a difference and enjoy a fantastic night of international song, performance and dance celebrating many world cultures. You will be wowed by a visual and musical spectacle spanning the continents of the world with diverse entertainment from the Chinese Lion Dance team, martial arts displays, traditional Irish song, music and dance, Ulster Scots musicians, African drum and dance troupe. Dancing from many cultures will feature with the Latin American Salsa, indigenous Indian dance and music and Japanese dance and origami. A fabulous evening’s entertainment is guaranteed for all the family. This event has been organised by Banbridge District Council and is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Date: Thursday 15th March 2007
Time: 8.00pm
Location: Iveagh Movie Studios, Downshire Place, Banbridge
Open to: All members of the public
Cost: £9.00 per person and £6.00 per concession
Booking: Essential - see Box Office details below
Parking: Free parking available
Contact: Iveagh Movie Studios
Downshire Place, Banbridge
T: 028 4066 2666

St Patrick's Day, Belfast
Our 2007 St Patrick's Day promises to offer a carnival atmosphere for all the family. The day will kick-off with a wonderful and colourful carnival parade with a giant monkfish, flying angels and dancing serpents winding their way through the city centre streets. The parade starts at 12.30pm from Belfast City Hall and make its way to Custom House Square. Once there, the celebrations will continue with two hours of world music from 1-3pm. The first half of the concert will feature traditional Irish and Ulster-Scots performers, including folk group Blackthorn and the South City Highland Dancers, as well as international boy band Streetwize. The second half of the concert will feature Samantha Mumba, who will be taking a break from filming her latest movie with top director Stephen Spielberg to wow the Belfast audience with what promises to be a fantastic free performance. Bringing the concert to a close will be the up-and-coming Scottish singer Sandi Thom, who enjoyed virtually overnight success last year with hit singles such as I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (with Flowers In My Hair), What If I'm Right? and Lonely Girl, and her debut album Smile… It Confuses People. With a capacity of around 5,000, admission to Custom House Square is free, but entrance will be on a strictly first-come-first-served basis. St Patrick's Day in Belfast is truly a day not to be missed, so come along and join in the fantastic Belfast atmosphere! For more information about the event, please contact the Belfast Welcome Centre on 028 9024 6609 or email info@belfastvisitor.com

Transport
In order to reduce the level of carbon omissions when attending our events, please remember that Belfast is serviced with an extensive public transport service from Translink.For more information please visit www.translink.co.uk or call Translink on 028 9066 6630 (seven days - 7am to 8pm).

Date: 17 March 2007
Venue: Belfast City Hall to Custom House Square
Admission: Free

National Trust North Coast Member's Association Talk
'The Walled cities in Ireland &Londonderry in particular' Talk given by Avril Thomas, a distinguished academic who has published numerous books and articles on this subject.
Tuesday 3rd April: Magherabuoy House Hotel, Portrush 8.00pm
Admission £4.00, for further details contact Trevor on 0779 010 3590.

Derry City St. Patrick's Day Celebrations
17 March 2007 St Patrick's Day Spring Carnival
The city comes alive to celebrate Ireland’s patron saint with entertainment in Guildhall Square and throughout the city. Festival Office T: (028) 7137 6545 www.derrycity.gov.uk/stpatricksday

The Barrack Yard in Aughnacloy
Historical Presentation with speaker Mr Malcolm Duffey at 8pm in the McCreedy Mill Centre, Aughnacloy.
For further information contact Community Office on (028) 8555 7002 (tel/fax) or email: aughnacloy@btconnect.com

Start Date: 13 March 2007
Time: 20:00
Location: McCreedy Mill Centre, Aughnacloy

American Wake
Countless thousands of people left Ireland in the 18th & 19th Centuries. For many, the hours before departure became known as the ‘American or Living Wake’ when the family gathered to bid a sad farewell to the departing emigrant. This dramatic re-enactment will take place at 1.00pm & 3.00pm. NB: On the above date the museum will be open to the public from 11.00am to 5.30pm. Last admission is 4.00pm

Starts : Sat, 17 Mar 2007
Ends : Sun, 18 Mar 2007
Location : Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh
Description : The American Wake, Ulster American Folk Park

Gala St Patrick's Day
Starts : Sat, 17 Mar 2007
Location : Organic Centre, Rossinver, Co Leitrim
Description : Gala St Patrick’s Day in the Grass Roof Café, Organic Centre, Rossinver,
Co Leitrim. Four course veggie dinners, live music and dancing. 40 euros per person. 7.30pm.
Details and booking from 00353 71 985 4338

Exhibition: Belleek 1857 - 2007
This is a travelling exhibition from the Ulster Museum which has a fine collection of both historic and contemporary ceramics This exhibition displays some of the most unusual and unique pieces produced by the factory and tells the story of its development over the past 150 years. Some of the Fermanagh County Museum collections from Belleek Pottery will also be on display.

Starts : Fri, 23 Mar 2007
Ends : Sat, 19 May 2007
Location : Enniskillen Castle Museums
Admission : Normal Admission Rates Apply

Fermanagh Ulster-Scots Society Annual Dinner
Starts : Fri, 30 Mar 2007 at 19:30
Location : Killyhevlin Hotel, Enniskillen
Admission : £22.50
Description : Fermanagh Ulster-Scots Society, Annual Dinner, Killyhevlin Hotel,Enniskillen 7.30pm. Special Guest: Mr William Loughlin MBE.
Also including entertainment from local pipe bands, Maguiresbridge Country
And Highland Dancers and more. Tickets £22.50
Available from Joan Creighton on 028 66 322928
Trevor & Audrey Watson 028 677 22199

The History of the Fire Brigade in Lisburn
7th March 2007 at 7.30pm
Lisburn Historical Society meeting in Lisburn Institute of Further & Higher Education
Talk by Bill Broadhurst

Family History Event, Ballycastle Library
08 March 2007 BALLYCASTLE LIBRARY
Leyland Road, Ballycastle. (18.00pm) Would you like to find out more about your local or family history?
If you are interested in finding out more about your local or family history, you are invited to come along to Ballycastle Library (Leyland Road) on Thursday 8th March at 6pm, to hear about the many free resources available to help you start your search. Michael Lynn, NEELB Area Local Studies Development Officer, will be speaking at this event and will bring along a number of resources relating to the Ballycastle area and a sample of the vast range of research tools available. Everyone is welcome to come along to this free event to hear about how the NEELB Area Local Studies Service can assist you in finding out more about your local and family history. For more information, call into the Local Studies Service on the 1st floor of Ballymena Central Library (Pat’s Brae), telephone 028 2563 3960 or email localstudies.neelb@ni-libraries.net

Glens of Antrim Historical Society Lecture
23 March 2007
"JOHN HEWITT, MAN OF THE NORTH", Dr ROBIN MARSH
The Cushendun Hotel, Cushendun (8.30pm)
Come along and enjoy a wonderful lecture evening hosted by the Glens of Antrim Historical Society - one of the most foremost historical societies on the island of Ireland (admission fee to be confirmed). Please contact Bernadette Delargy on: (028) 2177 1180 or email: antrimhistory@utvinternet.com
For more details on the Glens of Antrim Historical Society log onto: www.antrimhistory.net

'Unravelling the Myth of St Patrick'
Discussion on the life of St Patrick
15th Mar 2007
Time: 19:30PM to 21:30PM
Location: Omagh Library

'No Mean City' Photographic Exhibition
A new permanent photographic exhibition, `No Mean City`, has been on display at Belfast City Hall since 14 December 2006 to mark the centenary of the City Hall. The exhibition profiles more than 50 of Belfast`s most celebrated citizens, past and present. The public also has the chance to suggest who they would like to be included in the exhibition as there is one remaining place.

Photographed by Belfast-born Michael Donald, the exhibition features a wealth of celebrated citizens from the past century, from backgrounds as diverse as sport and music, literature and trade unionism, drama and medicine, business and engineering.

The complete list of portraits featured in `No Mean City` is as follows:
Alan Green – sports commentator
Alex Higgins – snooker player and former world champion
Amy Carmichael - missionary
Angela Feeney – opera singer
Anna Lo – community worker
Basil Blackshaw and Neil Shawcross (pictured together) – artists
Brian Keenan – writer
Brian Kennedy – singer/songwriter
Brian Magee – boxer
C S Lewis – writer
David Healy – footballer
Dawson Stelfox – architect and mountaineer
Francis McPeake – musician
Frank Pantridge (Professor ) – pioneering cardiologist
Gary Lightbody – musician
George Best – footballer
Glenn Patterson – novelist
Gloria Hunniford – broadcaster
Ivan `Van` Morrison – musician
James Galway – flautist
James Larkin – trade unionist
James Magennis VC – war hero
Jimmy Ellis – actor
John Boyd Dunlop – inventor
John Hewitt – poet
John T Davis – film maker
Johnny Caldwell – boxer
Keith Donald – musician
Kenneth Branagh – actor/director
Lilian Spence – centenarian
LL McCassey – civil engineer
Lord Kelvin – scientist
Lord Rana – entrepreneur
Margaret Byers – educationalist (founder of Victoria College)
Marie Jones – playwright
Mark Irvine and Danny Devenny (pictured together) – mural painters
Mary McAleese – President of Ireland
Mary O`Malley – founder of the Lyric Theatre
Mary Peters (Dame) – athlete, sports ambassador and Olympic gold medalist
May Blood – trade unionist
Michael Deane – chef
Michael Longley – poet
Mike Gibson and Jack Kyle (pictured together) – rugby players
Oliver Jeffers – artist and children`s author
Otto Jaffa – philanthropist and businessman
Peter McGuckin – architect
Rita Duffy – artist
Ruby Murray – singer
Seamus Mac Seain – Irish linguist
Stephen Rea – actor
Terry Hooley – music promoter
Thomas Andrews – engineer and designer of `Titanic`
`No Mean City` will be on display in the west corridor of the City Hall until the end of June, and will be rehoused when the City Hall closes for refurbishment next summer.