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Hearts of Down

@heartsofdown.bsky.social

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An arts, heritage and media collective from County Down www.heartsofdown.org

Hearts of Down @heartsofdown.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Hearts of Down is a gathering of friends & neighbours, comrades & fellow travellers, who come together to imagine & make things – films, music, books... We draw inspiration from the radical, democratic & anti-sectarian spirit of our native Co. Down, reaching out to people & communities everywhere.

Who we are

Hearts of Down is a gathering of friends and neighbours, comrades and fellow travellers, who come together to imagine and make things – films, music, books among other artefacts.

We draw inspiration from the radical, democratic and anti-sectarian spirit of our native Co. Down. In doing so, Hearts of Down call out and reach out to people and communities everywhere. From our place and time to yours.

Accompanying image is a drawing of four Movilla early Christian coffin slabs, currently away for restoration and we wait (im)patiently for their return.

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Hearts of Down @heartsofdown.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Pulling our website together today. The banner image is from a painting 'Old Tongue' by Tim Millen, exhibited recently at the Ards Arts Centre. A show that "emerged from a stew of myth, folklore, climate reports, and the daily ritual of walking on Scrabo Hill". www.timmillen.com/while-your-b...

Old Tongue, 2024, 23cm x 30cm, oil on canvas

A grey blue sky in the background with pink sky in the foreground. At the bottom of the painting there is red rock, an industrial crane, possibly quarrying activity. The red rock reaches up the right hand side of the painting, almost taking on the form of a creature. A white cloud, or is it a speech bubble, stretches across the top of the painting.

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Hearts of Down @heartsofdown.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

A mysterious unmarked site in Newtownards, Co. Down, which some locals call Bully's Acre and is said to be linked to An Gorta Mór... This short film uncovers the disremembered famine history of Newtownards, and draws attention to Bully's Acre as a site of historical significance. Coming soon...

Still from a film. The name of the film 'The Forgotten Famine' is written across a shot of a green area with daffodils and trees. Behind the green is an ordinary looking housing estate in Newtownards, Co. Down.

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