PRONI - Secrets from the files 2004 and 2005

Name: PRONI - Secrets from the files 2004 and 2005
Start: 2026-01-30T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-30T14:00:00+00:00
Location: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Schedule

Fri Jan 30 2026 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland | Belfast, NI

Talk on the PRONI files from 2004 and 2005
About this Event

Sam McBride & Professor Marie Coleman reveal the secrets behind the news headlines from the most recently released government files of 2004 and 2005.

Sam McBride is the Northern Ireland editor of the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Independent. He is author of Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal. Sam has been covering the annual releases for more than a decade.

Marie Coleman is Professor of Twentieth Century Irish History at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queens’ University, Belfast. She is the author of a number of books (County Longford and the Irish Revolution, 1910-1923, The Irish sweep: a history of the Irish hospitals sweepstake, 19130-1987 and The Irish revolution) in addition to a number of refereed articles and essays on the Irish revolution.