Exhibition | 02 June – 30 June | 9.30 am – 5.30 pm | Free
Susan Hughes presents a series of atmospheric paintings of breeding seabirds including Arctic terns, little terns and fulmars. She paints in response to observations made during artist residencies on Rathlin Island, Inishlacken (Connemara) and Hrisey Island (Iceland). Hughes is greatly influenced by the birdwatching practice of her own father.
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Talk | Thursday 8th June | 1 pm – 2 pm | Free
Liam Logan is a writer and broadcaster from North Antrim. He often refers to his homeplace as ‘the hame o the Hamely Tongue’. A native Ulster-Scots speaker and an enthusiastic promoter of Ulster-Scots, Liam sees it as an integral part of shared linguistic and cultural heritage something he will explore in this insightful talk.
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THE LAST PRIME MINISTER OF IRELAND
Play | Friday 9th June | 6 pm – 8.30 pm | £12
On the morning of his wife’s funeral in January 1941 David Lloyd George is forced to confront his past political and personal behaviour. In his dealings with Ireland, he stands accused of deceiving both the unionist and nationalist communities, but it is the betrayal of his family and his native Wales that torture the former Prime Minister most. Tension and comedy come together in this historical drama that Splodar Theatre will bring to life in The Linen Hall.
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Talk | Thursday 15th June | 1 pm – 2 pm | Free
Three interwar female photojournalists – Dora Maar, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, and Gerda Taro – challenged gender norms, embracing modernity. They reinvented themselves, using cameras to document their experiences. This talk by Dr Daniel Kowalsky (QUB) will explore their unique modernist approach, examining their personal lives and the intersections of modernism, propaganda, and media in the 1930s.
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Digitisation Project | Saturday 17th June | 10 am – 4 pm | Free
As personal stories of the Second World War fade from living memory, it is vital that these stories and the objects that accompany them are preserved. Bring your diaries, letters, photographs, memoirs, objects, or stories about your family’s experience in the war to be recorded and added to an online archive. Volunteers will be on hand to welcome you, record your story and photograph your objects.
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Conversation | Wednesday 21st June | 1 pm – 2 pm | Free
Rosemary Jenkinson is an author, playwright, and one of the boldest and most sparkling chroniclers of contemporary life. Join Rosemary just a few weeks after her latest short story collection ‘Love in the Time of Chaos’ is published for a conversation with critically acclaimed author of ‘Sweet Home’ and ‘Dance Move’, Wendy Erskine.
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The Linen Hall (Belfast Library And Society For Promoting Knowledge) is registered with the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland NIC 104 564.
