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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Oct 5

I’ve found a ref to it as 1641 on Ros Davies site, they are referencing TMUOP too so Peter Carr has both Thomas O’Gilmores murdered in the same place 200 years apart 🤭 I think it is the same person and will stick with my hunch

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Oct 5

But now I can’t find any of this online and am beginning to think I imagined it all! Lol!

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Oct 5

Dundonald, soldiers couldn’t be bothered to take home where he was supposed to go and he was murdered between’kirkdonnel and Hollywood’ I think the family killed name was ‘
o’Gilmore which made me think it might be an oral tradition of the same story - or a really unlucky family

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Oct 5

That was my starting point too, but I think it might be a bastardisation of an event from 1642. I found a witness statement in the 1641 transcripts online but I can’t seem to access it anymore. A catholic family was wiped out in craigantlet, the last one alive was being taken to the garrison at

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Oct 5

Does she suggest a reason for the name in the book? I have a theory…

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Oct 5

She is fascinating! She’s making a brief appearance in our community-led exhibition in Carrick museum in November.

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · Sep 30

Another great project developed by the Centre for Public History at QUB

Lisa Rea Currie appointed AHRC Community Innovation Practitioner on BeHere Project

Queen’s has been awarded a Community Innovation Practitioner (CIP) Award for 2025-26, as part of the Creative Communities programme, funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and ...

www.qub.ac.uk

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Aug 7

Exactly! And throw in a bit of car ownership promotion and ‘Protestant state for a Protestant people’ thinking and we ended up embedding inequality in all sorts of ways

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Aug 7

I’ve been doing some reading about this lately and I’m not sure the Mathew plan wasn’t the root of all the urban planning problems of the last 50 years 🫣

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Jul 14

This is a beautiful song.

Lay your flags and titles down
Take your place in this common ground 💚

Hearts of Down @heartsofdown.bsky.social · Jul 14

This is the song, Bully's Acre, written by Maurice Macartney, that appears at the end of The Forgotten Famine film. It is performed Stephen Macartney and Maurice. Hear it in full. Click the link below.

In so many ways it captures the heart and soul of the film.

www.heartsofdown.org/work/bullys-...

Bully's Acre — Hearts of Down

www.heartsofdown.org

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Jul 8

Sounds great Robyn, let us know when it’s going out.

Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Jul 2

This is brilliant! Going to share some of these bits of wisdom with my teen who has been hard on himself lately because of stammering.

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Jun 27

When I try to explain what I do as a heritage practitioner, it is a bit nebulous- varies from project to project, but it’s about giving voice to the voiceless. This project brought that to my own front door. Remembrance belongs to us. youtu.be/3i6-cHvtP6c?...

The Forgotten Famine

YouTube video by Hearts of Down

youtu.be

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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excellent short film telling a story of forgotten local history. Very promising start to a project and account worth following.

Hearts of Down @heartsofdown.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our short film about the Great Hunger in Newtownards.

There are Bully’s Acres all over Ireland – mass graves, where victims of an Gorta Mór and harsh workhouse regimes lie buried.

‘The Forgotten Famine’ is about one of them, in a quiet corner of County Down…

www.heartsofdown.org/work/the-for...

The Forgotten Famine — Hearts of Down

www.heartsofdown.org

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Jonny Currie @scrabopower.bsky.social · Jun 26

When I mentioned the subject matter of this excellent film to a few local wise old heads last night they were like..yep, we know this.

That's why it's so important that an under-told story is being introduced to new audiences. Worth a watch.

Hearts of Down @heartsofdown.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our short film about the Great Hunger in Newtownards.

There are Bully’s Acres all over Ireland – mass graves, where victims of an Gorta Mór and harsh workhouse regimes lie buried.

‘The Forgotten Famine’ is about one of them, in a quiet corner of County Down…

www.heartsofdown.org/work/the-for...

The Forgotten Famine — Hearts of Down

www.heartsofdown.org

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Hearts of Down @heartsofdown.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our short film about the Great Hunger in Newtownards.

There are Bully’s Acres all over Ireland – mass graves, where victims of an Gorta Mór and harsh workhouse regimes lie buried.

‘The Forgotten Famine’ is about one of them, in a quiet corner of County Down…

www.heartsofdown.org/work/the-for...

The Forgotten Famine — Hearts of Down

www.heartsofdown.org

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Jun 13

This is our first newsletter from Belfast Street Names, it is really fun project to be part of and we are always keen to crowd source local knowledge and invite everyone into the conversation, so please feel free to get in touch www.belfaststreetnames.com/uploads/file...

www.belfaststreetnames.com

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Jun 12

Watch this space! Not long to go until the first treat!

Hearts of Down @heartsofdown.bsky.social · Jun 11

We are making things. Some of them will be ready soon :)

Films, podcasts, essays, conversations. Stories from the County Down underground.

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Hearts of Down @heartsofdown.bsky.social · Jun 11

We are making things. Some of them will be ready soon :)

Films, podcasts, essays, conversations. Stories from the County Down underground.

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Jun 4

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Just to keep my feet on the ground after yesterday

Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Jun 3

Wordle 1,445 2/6

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Think this is worth a share!

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · May 15

Target - write 500 words this morning!

Success- 500 words achieved

Failure - it is just the previous 500 words repeated in a slightly different way 🙀

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · May 6

Think that was a great part of it! Tá tart an domhain orm!

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Apr 14

Allotmenting! Peas, beans, potatoes, all coming on well. And Twiggy my elder tree might be a few years yet before they’re big enough to help me make wine or keep the devil away!

Twiggy, we believe in you! Thank you for your one tiny green sprout to prove you are alive!

Peas and beans, so far safe from the duck neighbours

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Lisa Rea Currie @lisareacurrie.bsky.social · Apr 1

This is awful. 😩

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