Belfast: Diarmuid & Séamus Ó Tuama, A Family’s Story of a Community’s Struggle

When Séamus Ó Tuama inherited his late father Diarmuid’s unfinished manuscript following his untimely death in January 2023 – a history of the nationalist experience in Belfast – he resolved to complete it in his father’s memory, weaving together historical narrative with the story of his own family.

Béal Feirste: Belfast transforms the city’s turbulent past into a multi-generational account. The work documents the Twomey family’s journey from post-Famine economic conscription in rural Cork through the Irish Revolution, Pogroms, Partition, Civil War, the Troubles and Belfast’s cultural renaissance as a modern, vibrant urban Gaeltacht.

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Organised by Féile an Phobail Debates and Discussions Committee

BÉAL FEIRSTE / BELFAST: DIARMUID & SÉAMUS Ó TUAMA – SCÉAL TEAGHLAIGH FAOI STREACHAILT POBAIL COLÁISTE OLLSCOILE NAOMH MUIRE, BÓTHAR NA BHFÁL

Nuair a d’fhág a athair nach maireann, Diarmuid, a lámhscríbhinn neamhchríochnaithe ag a mhac, Séamus Ó Tuama, i ndiaidh a bháis roimh am i mí Eanáir 2023 – stair eispéiris náisiúnaithe i mBéal Feirste – bheartaigh sé go gcríochnódh sé í i gcuimhne a athar. Fíonn sé an stair seo le stair a theaghlaigh féin.

Tugann Béal Feirste: Belfast cuntas ó ghlúin go glúin ar stair chasta na cathrach. Tugann an saothar cuntas ar stair theaghlach Uí Thuama ó choinscríobh geilleagrach i dtuath Chorcaí i ndiaidh an Ghorta Mhóir, ó Réabhlóid na hÉireann, ó Phograim, ó Chríochdheighilt, ó Chogadh na gCarad, ó na Trioblóidí go hathbheochan chultúrtha Bhéal Feirste mar Ghaeltacht nua-aimseartha, bheoga, uirbeach.

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