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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 27/02/2026

Navigating fraught legacies with trauma-informed archival practice Navigating fraught legacies with trauma-informed archival practiceby Allan LEONARD24 February 2026 The Quill Project recently… mrulster.com/2026/02/27/navigating-…

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 08/11/2025

A celebration of music journalism and Belfast’s musical legacy: #booklaunch event for The Song is Nearly Over by Stuart Bailie My summary article 👉 mrulster.com/2025/11/08/a... #SoundofBelfastFest #SoundofBelfastFest25 #thesongisnearlyover @ohyeahcentre.bsky.social @stubailie.bsky.social

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 13/10/2025

I completed my first trail running race. Learned some truths about terrain, distance, and performance. #running #trailrunning #NorthernIreland mrulster.com/2025/10/13/mourne-skyt…

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 04/10/2025

Preparing for my first race with trail running kit Just over 40 years ago, I learned how to run competitively by joining a high school cross-country team. To get any sort of hill climbing on the otherwise flat… mrulster.com/2025/10/04/preparing-f…

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 14/03/2025

‘A feasible bite out of a big apple’: outcomes from ARINS/Irish Times North–South surveys 2024 mrulster.com/2025/03/14/a... #NorthernIreland #UnitedIreland

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 09/12/2024

Photographers can learn from filmmakers, who work with story boards to aid their visual storytelling. Or at least have this frame of mind when editing a selection of images for a #photobook or photo essay. #photography #photojournalism

Graphic with text: "In visual narrative storytelling, especially from a journalistic perspective, the most important thing is that each individual image can stand alone, but in their combination, they tell a story." The State of Photojournalism Today. MaryAnne Golon | Lens Culture

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 05/12/2024

The importance of imagery in #journalism. From book, Reporting Beyond the Problem: www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

Graphic with text: "Some evidence exists that solutions-oriented photos affect audiences differently, as well. (To showcase a solution to climate change, journalists might choose a picture of a wind turbine rather than a forest fire, for example.) Reporting Beyond the Problem.

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 23/11/2024

A diet of #warphotography may not be good for your health. #Peace #photography #peacephotography suggests an alternative: www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

Graphic with text: "Visual representation may contribute to memory loops, thus intensifying traumatic memories without offering an escape from these memories. What, then, could a forward-looking perspective look like?" Peace Photography, Frank Möller

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 13/11/2024

Bluesky version of verifying accounts is a self-service option. Slight learning curve, but if you know how to access your domain's DNS records (or ask a friend), it's pretty straightforward: bsky.social/about/blog/4... Pleased with the result. Hopefully encourages trustworthiness.

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 07/11/2024

Saddened by the passing of Anna Lo, a genuinely good person. @MadameUlster and I remember her support for stroke survivors. Anna was a trailblazer. Coincidentally highlighted in @SharedFuture article today:

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 08/09/2024

I've walked past this fountain in the inner square of Belfast City Hall without realising it was a #memorial of #TheTroubles. Card reads: "In proud and loving memory: Seamus Sullivan; Murdered by UDA/UFF gunman; 3rd September 1991; Springfield Rd Depot; RIP; Co workers B.C.C."

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 19/08/2024

A selection of images from a working trip to #Kosovo. A kind of homecoming for me from my previous assignments there. Looking forward to returning the favour with their visit to #NorthernIreland soon. #WorldPhotographyDay

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 06/08/2024

On our way to #Mitrovica, a place fond in my heart, where today I will meet friends and see how this divided city is working for a better future. @cbmitrovica @AGK_AJK @UKinKosovo @SharedFuture @PeaceJourn @valdete_idrizi

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 15/05/2024

#MemoriesofOthers — The Irish work of #AkihikoOkamura A posthumous #photography #exhibition @PhotoMuseumIRL #AtelierEXB My summary article on the curators’ panel discussion and #photobook publisher’s presentation 👉

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 22/02/2024

Excellent @politicsinacti1 presentations and richly engaging conversation by @StJosephs1964 @stpaulsbbrook @NewryHigh students with @JustinMcNu1ty @LizK1988 @MickeyBradySF @niassembly Hopefully students left with appreciation of putting passions to action via politics.

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 06/02/2024

A marathon two-hour session for @StJosephs1964 @stpaulsbbrook @NewryHigh students creating and practising their @politicsinacti1 presentations they'll give to our politicians freshly restored @niassembly. Watch out here they come!

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 12/01/2024

Thanks to guests @conormurphysf and @JustinMcNu1ty MLAs who fielded questions from @stpaulsbbrook @StJosephs1964 @NewryHigh students on driving, drugs, and mental health. All good prep for their @politicsinacti1 presentation @niassembly

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 11/12/2023

Much to absorb during Dublin day trip w/ visits to Irish and British memorial sites as well as education and tour of Leinster House. Everyone — students and teachers — learned something new. @NewryHigh @stpaulsbbrook @StJosephs1964 @politicsinacti1

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 23/11/2023

Louise Vance makes an impassioned speech calling on #NorthernIreland health and social care system to have a duty of care for unpaid carers: "When will they realise they are asking too much from us?" #CarersRightsDay @CarersNI @CentreForCare

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 07/11/2023

Another excellent session w/ @StJosephs1964 @stpaulsbbrook @NewryHigh students deciding their top issues to lobby local politicians. Thanks for the invigorating discussion! @SES_Project @politicsinacti1

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 24/10/2023

‘Don’t get used as a propagandist’: visual storytelling of Ulster’s loyalist community My summary article of an artist talk by Malachi O’DOHERTY with Mariusz SMIEJEK and Ed KASHI 👉 #NorthernIreland #photography #photobook #photoexhibition @OliWhitehouse

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 17/10/2023

A visual and creative delight in reading @OliverJeffers "Working Mind and Drawing Hand" @Rizzoli_Books. A sincere insight into the thought process of a remarkable artist. Looking forward to his upcoming book launch Belfast event.

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 15/09/2023

A bright morning for some bright ideas at the @bonninstitute @bfuturefestival #constructivejournalism💡

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 19/06/2023

Transcript of Helen Jones's interview with me recently about #carers' call for more support in #NorthernIreland 👉

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 14/06/2023

Transcript of Linda Macaulay's interview with me in April about the call for a new deal for #carers in #NorthernIreland 👉

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 11/06/2023

15 years on Twitter. Hard to believe. Lesson learnt from Flickr drama over the years: hang tight and hope for better days. #MyTwitterAnniversary

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 25/05/2023

And we're on our way drinking and digesting #NorthernIreland #LE23 election results #hangover @SluggerOToole @alaninbelfast

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 18/04/2023

Two Bostonians meet in Belfast and discuss their journeys to Ireland. I told him that his father was first person I met in Boston when he was running for office. #worldscolliding @joekennedy @LilliputPress @MarcyMurninghan @MoakleyChairUMB @QUBelfast #Agreement25

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 14/04/2023

Padraig O'MALLEY called into @NOALIBISBOOKS to sign copies of his new book Perils and Prospects of a United #Ireland. Felt good to support this great independent bookseller. @LilliputPress @MarcyMurninghan @MoakleyChairUMB @andyjpollak @QuintinOliver

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 02/04/2023

"I have no bucket list. Life is the bucket." I can't remember where or when I read this but I marked it at the time. #QOTD via @readwise

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 16/03/2023

Behnam's playing of the santoor is beautiful: Listen in person yourself to this and other performances at Accidental Theatre this Saturday: @AccidentalT

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 02/03/2023

Lively launch of @ImagineBelfast festival today! Be sure to check out the programme 👉 @CllrBlack #Belfast #brainfood #ImagineBelfast

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 01/03/2023

"We cannot get into a situation where no one listens anymore. Without trust, we are lost." #QOTD via @readwise

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 22/02/2023

"The construction of isolated ethnic clusters defies liberal principles of tolerance and pluralism in favor of rudimentary group survival." @lebbeuswoods @estherchar1 @Penn #DividedCities #QOTD via @readwise

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 07/02/2023

"Journalists set up their narratives as conflicts between two opposing people, views, or groups. They prefer stories of extreme poverty and billionaires to stories about the vast majority of people slowly dragging themselves toward better lives." #QOTD #journalism #factfulness

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 01/02/2023

"The #Ireland imagined by Pearse and de Valera was progressively dismantled as unworkable." #NorthernIreland @readwise @malodoherty @MerrionPress

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 31/01/2023

"Traditional journalism, with its inaccuracies, distortions, and occasionally inflammatory hate-mongering, proves the need for a more responsible approach that emphasizes context, perspective, and accuracy." via @readwise @PeaceJourn #peacejournalism

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 31/01/2023

"It used to be assumed ... that you just needed to put the facts out ... and people would come round to a ‘sensible’ view as a result. This has been rightly discredited as the power of identity, ideology and partisanship have been brought to the fore." #factchecking

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 30/01/2023

"Facts convince. Emotions motivate. Facts can convince you to do or not to do something, but whether you act on that conviction depends on how you feel." via @readwise #QOTD

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 19/01/2023

Discovering the amazing images by Robert John Welch (1859-1936) of the visual history of shipbuilding in Northern Ireland #northernireland #shipbuilding #belfast #photography #history

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 05/01/2023

New Year's run. May it shine.

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 25/12/2022

Merry Christmas to all! May your turkey dinner be fine. 🦃

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 18/12/2022

Weekend getaway in Dingle, Ireland. Slea Head Drive in sunny weather. Part 2/2.

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 18/12/2022

Weekend getaway in Dingle, Ireland. Slea Head Drive in sunny weather. Part 1/2.

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 02/12/2022

Revisiting the Ring of Steel: Theatrical Walking Tour by @kaboshtheatre @belfast_stories @ringofsteel50. Belfast, Northern Ireland. © Allan LEONARD

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 24/11/2022

We went out for a turkey dinner this year #HappyThanksgiving

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 08/09/2022

While this was as close as I ever got to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, she was well received by all at a reception function @niassembly in May 2002. RIP.

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Allan LEONARD @mrulster.com · 02/09/2022

A little wetter today on the Wild Atlantic Way. But still a grand tour.

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