BBC Archive Footage Reveals Pioneering Belfast Comedy Club

BBC Archive Footage Reveals Pioneering Belfast Comedy Club

More than 9,000 new archive videos, reflecting life in Northern Ireland in the 1990s, have been added to a dedicated BBC Northern Ireland Rewind website – www.bbcrewind.co.uk/northernireland.

The footage includes comedian Patrick Kielty (pictured) compering at the pioneering Empire Comedy Club in Belfast.

This new archive content means that there is now more than 30,000 video clips specifically about Northern Ireland for the public to access - stretching as far back as the 1950s right up to 1996. The extra 9,000 video clips, taken from BBC News output, feature on BBC Rewind as part of the BBC’s celebrations to mark 100 years of its services in the region.

These latest additions from the archive, which will offer up a whole new world of nostalgia for visitors to BBC Rewind, will be available from Monday 4 November.

BBC Rewind Northern Ireland opens up a vast portion of the BBC’s extensive archive to the public containing tens of thousands of audio-visual pieces of content reflecting life and events dating back to the 1950s.

The dedicated BBC Northern Ireland Rewind website also includes an interview with a fresh-faced Darren Clarke reflecting on his first year on golf’s European Tour.

Visitors to BBC Rewind have the ability to search for archive footage from their local area and can use an interactive map narrowing down content searches to street level.

The new dedicated Northern Ireland BBC Rewind website is available at bbcrewind.co.uk/northernireland

Watch a very young Patrick Kielty and Owen O'Neill here.

 

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