News Archive

The Linen Hall Library’s What’s On guides listing all events for April – June 2019 are now available in the Library, through Northern Ireland Tourist Information Centres, and at various venues throughout Belfast. Or download a guide here. You can view and books our events online at https://linenhall.com/event/...

Who are the prominent females in Northern Ireland history? Find out in the Linen Hall’s new exhibition Anonymous Was a Woman which begins on 12 April. Also this month, the Library continues its exploration into the LGBTQ+ archives with a walking tour of Belfast on 10 April. The schedule of…...

Just a reminder that the Linen Hall will be closed on Monday 18 March for the St Patrick’s Day holiday. We will reopen on Tuesday 19 March at 9.30am. For a full list of upcoming Library holiday closures click here....

On Thursday 28 March, the Linen Hall launches Staging Sexuality, a series of performances and events based around the Library’s LGBTQ+ archive. The project is funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. From March through to June, Staging Sexuality will feature an event a month involving a number of…...

The Linen Hall Library is delighted to announce that we have retained our 4-star Visitor Attraction rating from Tourism Northern Ireland.  Tourism NI is committed to developing quality experiences for visitors. The Quality Grading Scheme for Visitor Experiences offers tourism operators a chance to be awarded with a one to…...

Many studies point to the intellectual and emotional benefits of being read to as a child and continuing that endeavour throughout one’s life. In March the Linen Hall celebrates this rewarding activity with a schedule of events concentrating on reading including marking World Book Day on 7 March, World Storytelling…...

At the Linen Hall Library, we believe in exercising your mind – and your body! We are, therefore, delighted to announce that Team Linen Hall will be running the 2019 Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon on Sunday 5 May. The Linen Hall Library is one of Belfast’s oldest charities. This…...

The Linen Hall is taking part in Gradam Ceoil (Irish Traditional Music Awards) this year with a lecture on 15 February about the courageous Highland bagpipers of the First World War. There’s also a visit on 14 February from Ethel McGladdery, a mill worker from the early 19th century who…...

  Participants Sought to Help ‘Make the Future’ With Launch of €1.82m Cross-Border Cultural Programme  A new cross-border cultural programme, Making the Future, which will empower 5,000 people to use museum collections and archives to explore the past and create a powerful vision for future change, has launched today (Friday…...

THE TRAUMA OF PERSECUTION AND LOSS OF ‘HOME’ ARE EXPRESSED THROUGH ARTWORK CREATED BY SURVIVORS OF CONFLICT IN NEW LINEN HALL EXHIBITION Launching on 10 January, Torn From Home: Remembering the Holocaust expresses the horror and long-term repercussions of conflict felt by affected people through a series of textiles, personal…...