Heritage,identity and community engagement at Dunluce Castle,Northern Ireland |
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Authors: | Colin Breen Gemma Reid Max Hope |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Environmental Science, Ulster University, BT52 1SA Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UKcp.breen@ulster.ac.uk;3. Quarto Collective, Hopefield Avenue, Corrstown, BT56 8HE Portrush, UK;4. School of Environmental Science, Ulster University, BT52 1SA Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK |
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Abstract: | As Northern Ireland transitions out of conflict, increased attention is being paid to the role heritage can play in building peace across society and developing a more sustainable future. Recent archaeological investigations at Dunluce Castle have uncovered elements of the site’s Gaelic past and the remains of an early seventeenth-century town built immediately prior to the Crown-sponsored Plantation of Ulster. The project included a dynamic programme of community engagement and outreach that created opportunities to work as a group in the embodied act of recovering the physical past. This formed a space in which to challenge aspects of the region’s contested past and facilitated the renegotiation of accepted local histories and existing identity constructs. |
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Keywords: | community engagement Dunluce Castle Northern Ireland identity sustainability |
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