New home sought for historic Northern Ireland collection

The largest known private collection of memorabilia charting the bloody history of the North is being offered free to a good home.

Despite spending most of his life building up the remarkable, 38,000-item archive, retired London-based architect Peter Moloney wants to hand it over to a suitable institution that can preserve it.

The often unsettling record of the recent conflict — including political propaganda, pamphlets, and posters — has already attracted interest from world-class museums, such as London’s Victoria and Albert.