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Speakers included: Prof. Élise Féron, INCORE; Prof. Paul Connolly, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Ulster University; Prof. Chan Hellman, The Hope Research Centre, University of Oklahoma; Marie Brown, Foyle Women's Aid; Prof. Karen Kirby, UU; Marie Dunne, Resilo.

INCORE (@INCOREinfo) co-hosted an event entitled 'Bridging Individual, Organisation, and Community-Wellbeing: Hope as a Framework for Collective Action', at Magee, Ulster University (@UlsterUni), on Tuesday 17 February 2026.

Records from 2002 - 2003 are now publicly available online for first time!📁 This is part of ongoing work involving PRONI and @UlsterUni. The records are now available to view on the @CAINWebService website - cain.ulster.ac.uk/proni

Public records dating from 2002 and 2003 as well as earlier years have been added to the @CAINWebService (Conflict Archive on the Internet) website. 👀 Find out more: communities-ni.gov.uk/news/records-2…

The 290 files are from the Annual Releases for 2002 and 2003. They include items from other years (1965; 1968; 1975; 1977; 1982; 1985; 1988-1990 and 1992-2001). These digital copies have been made available on CAIN with the permission of the Deputy Keeper of the Records at PRONI.

290 government files from the Public Record Office of NI (part of Dept. for Communities @CommunitiesNI) have been added to PRONI Records on CAIN (@UlsterUni). This is the 15th addition / update from the annual release of previously restricted files. cain.ulster.ac.uk/proni/

Andrew Doyle has published a tribute to his uncle Eamon Melaugh (1933-2025). andrewdoyle.org/p/eamon-melaug…

Remembering Eamon Melaugh in The Irish News, 13 December 2025: irishnews.com/news/northern-…

Article about Eamon Melaugh in Derry Now, 8 December 2025: derrynow.com/news/local-new…

Article about Eamon Melaugh in the Derry Journal, Friday 12 December 2025: derryjournal.com/news/people/de…

Eamon Melaugh, who provided CAIN with the use of 350 of his black and white photographs of the early Troubles in Derry, died on 8 December 2025 aged 92 years. cain.ulster.ac.uk/melaugh/ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

On 12 February 1989, Pat Finucane, a Belfast solicitor, was shot dead by loyalists at his home. See: CAIN Chronology - #12289" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/…

A document, from NAI Records on CAIN, contains the speech of Douglas Hogg (17 Jan 1989) in which he said, ‘there are in Northern Ireland a number of solicitors who are unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA’. Source: cain.ulster.ac.uk/nai/1989/nai_T… @NARIreland @UlsterUni @INCOREinfo

One document, from NAI Records on CAIN, is the text of the Peter Brook speech (9 Nov 1990) in which he said, 'The British Government has no selfish strategic or economic interest in Northern Ireland'. Source: cain.ulster.ac.uk/nai/1990/nai_D… @NARIreland @UlsterUni @INCOREinfo

An additional 643 Irish government records, from The National Archives Ireland (NAI), were added to the existing collection ‘NAI Records on CAIN’, on 24 September 2025. See: cain.ulster.ac.uk/nai/index.html @NARIreland @UlsterUni

BBC NI News item: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) announced an award to Dr Adrian Grant to undertake the ‘Home in Troubled Times’ project. This followed on from a development grant in June 2023. See NLHF announcement: cain.ulster.ac.uk/Home-in-Troubl…

The updated digital version of the information from Malcolm Sutton's book is available at: cain.ulster.ac.uk/sutton/

Malcolm Sutton, author of the Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland, has died in Belfast. Malcolm’s information was first made available on CAIN in October 1999. It was updated regularly. The resource is often cited in books, journal articles, and in the media.

See: Devitt, F., et al. (2000). 'Definition of Victims', (4 October 2000), [PRONI Public Records DSD/7/1/3; 11 pages], [PDF; 3,933KB]. Belfast: PRONI. cain.ulster.ac.uk/proni/2001/pro…

Among the government papers from PRONI, recently made available on CAIN, was one which dealt with the definition of a victim of the conflict: @UlsterUni @PRONI_DFC