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| CONTACT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sherman Library Exhibit Features Posters and Images of the Northern Ireland Conflict "Troubled Images: Posters and Images of the Northern Ireland Conflict" will be on display Feb. 5 through March 20 at the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center. Nova Southeastern University is just one of nine stops on a tour that takes the renowned exhibit across the United States and Canada. The Linen Hall Library in Belfast assembled Troubled Images, which chronicles the lines of conflict between the ruling British government, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants in Northern Ireland. Throughout the six-week period, powerful public lectures on the history of the conflict in Northern Ireland will be presented. Distinguished speakers will include noted Irish authors Patricia Reilly Giff and Susan Bartolotti, who will present their program “Ireland for Kids,” on March 9 and Don Mullan, writer and director of the movie “Bloody Sunday.” “One of the purposes of this exhibit is to examine parallels between the Northern Irish and various conflicted communities here and abroad, including Haitian Americans, Cuban Americans, the Jewish and Arab communities, and others,” said James E. Doan, Ph.D., a professor of humanities at NSU and president of the South Florida Irish Studies Consortium, Inc. Doan, with a panel of distinguished scholars, will open the Troubled Images Exhibit at 1 p.m. with a symposium titled, “Troubled Images: Dramatic and Visual Representations of the Northern Irish Conflict and Peace Process.” Posters of the Northern Ireland Conflict from The Linen Hall Library are presented in North America in collaboration with Meridian International Center in Washington, DC. They are being presented at NSU with support from BankAtlantic. A reception will begin at 5:00 p.m. and feature Yvonne Murphy of the Linen Hall Library of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Troubled Images represent a wide range of opinions on major events and individuals involved in the arduous years of struggle and the burgeoning peace process, in which the United States Government, under the Clinton Administration, played a significant role in brokering the Good Friday agreement. For additional information, call 954-262-4613. For a schedule of events related to the Troubled Images, Click Here.
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