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14/10/2009
Belfast To Celebrate 400th Birthday
The City of Belfast will be 400 years old next April and analyzing its past, present and future is being promotes as a good way to commemorate the date, writes Carla Liébana.
To mark the anniversary of the foundation of Belfast, the Council is organizing a symposium about its history and its situation in the world.
James I signed the city's first charter on 27 April 1613, where was established the first Belfast Corporation and also the markets.
Moreover, it enabled parliamentary representation and the appointment of the city's first sovereign - the precursor of the modern Lord Mayor - John Vesey.
Councillor Naomi Long, the present Lord Mayor, (pictured) defined this moment as a key date in the history of the city and said that "it is important that understanding of the event's meaning and its commemoration is shared and owned by all the people of Belfast".
The symposium will take place at the Ulster Hall on 4th November with the objective of helping people to understand the events that which lead to the charter and Belfast's relationship to Elizabeth I's Plantation and the wider international context.
Among others issues, it will also discuss the Liverpool 800th anniversary, the engagement of native people with the commemoration of the 1607 foundation of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (as is frequently compared to Ulster), the comparative archaeology of north America and Ulster, the broader Irish historical context in which the Plantation happened and also why Belfast features so little in most accounts of that story.
"Audience participation is a key part of the day and listening to what the people of Belfast say is an important part of developing any commemoration, so join us for a day of lively debate – looking back in history and forward to Belfast's future," commented the Lord Mayor.
A lot of distinguished speakers will participate in the symposium, chaired by BBC journalist William Crawley.
Professors from both the University of Liverpool and Leicester, from the American Indian Resource Center at the College of William and Mary in Virginia and from the School of Education at Queen's University will be at the event.
Also taking part in the conference will be Buck Woodward, Manager of the American Indian Initiative at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia and a Muskogee Creek tribal member.
(CL/BMcC)
To mark the anniversary of the foundation of Belfast, the Council is organizing a symposium about its history and its situation in the world.
James I signed the city's first charter on 27 April 1613, where was established the first Belfast Corporation and also the markets.
Moreover, it enabled parliamentary representation and the appointment of the city's first sovereign - the precursor of the modern Lord Mayor - John Vesey.
Councillor Naomi Long, the present Lord Mayor, (pictured) defined this moment as a key date in the history of the city and said that "it is important that understanding of the event's meaning and its commemoration is shared and owned by all the people of Belfast".
The symposium will take place at the Ulster Hall on 4th November with the objective of helping people to understand the events that which lead to the charter and Belfast's relationship to Elizabeth I's Plantation and the wider international context.
Among others issues, it will also discuss the Liverpool 800th anniversary, the engagement of native people with the commemoration of the 1607 foundation of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (as is frequently compared to Ulster), the comparative archaeology of north America and Ulster, the broader Irish historical context in which the Plantation happened and also why Belfast features so little in most accounts of that story.
"Audience participation is a key part of the day and listening to what the people of Belfast say is an important part of developing any commemoration, so join us for a day of lively debate – looking back in history and forward to Belfast's future," commented the Lord Mayor.
A lot of distinguished speakers will participate in the symposium, chaired by BBC journalist William Crawley.
Professors from both the University of Liverpool and Leicester, from the American Indian Resource Center at the College of William and Mary in Virginia and from the School of Education at Queen's University will be at the event.
Also taking part in the conference will be Buck Woodward, Manager of the American Indian Initiative at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia and a Muskogee Creek tribal member.
(CL/BMcC)
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