By Irene Boada Montagut   Think bigly, my friend said. We were walking in the mountains of my  native Catalonia, not far from the Spanish-French border. We had been talking about the Northern Irish Troubles, as one does when high up in the Pyrenees. I had been outlining ideas from a cross-community group that aims […]

By Irene Boada Montagut   Walls come down. The classic example is the Berlin Wall separating east and west Berlin. It came tumbling down in 1989. Hardly a trace remains.   There are differences of course with Northern Ireland. But there was an opportunity that was completely missed. It would have been good if Berliners […]

Belfast Telegraph: January 31, 2018 – Why we need a museum of the Troubles Like Titanic Belfast but only on a grander scale, it could be a visitor attraction and an export earner with a difference, says Liam Kennedy Who owns the past? That is the provocative title of a book by the eminent American […]