Array Collective photographed in December 2021. Photo © Matt Alexander/PA Wire

Ciara Hickey and Jane Morrow

As we sit down to write this article in Belfast on 5 December 2021, it marks exactly 100 years since the Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed and Northern Ireland came to exist as a separate entity, since which time it has been defined by almost constant political and violent unrest. In spite of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and the subsequent economic transformation of the country, the weight of the conflict continues to bear down upon the emotional, physical, political and cultural health of its inhabitants.

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