There are many fascinating and surprising artefacts in the vast trove of the Gibson Collection. I came across one particular piece during a recent rummage that I’d lke to bring to your attention. It’s called “Phrenological Development of Robert Burns” and it was published in 1834 in Edinburgh....
Michael McLaverty Short Story Award Winners Announced
Niall Bourke from Kilkenny has won the prestigious Linen Hall Michael McLaverty Short Story Award for his story ‘The Catch’. The two runners-up are Sadhbh Moriarty for ‘Saint Caillín and The Carwash’ and Dawn Watson for ‘The Condition of Stopped Time’. (left to right: Sadhbh Moriary, Niall Bourke, Dawn Watson)…...
Andrew Gibson- we celebrate the man who gave Burns to Belfast!
Starting Friday 10 December the Linen Hall Library will celebrate the 120-year acquisition of one of its most important archives – the Gibson Collection of Burns and Burnsiana – with a week-long online homage to Andrew Gibson, the man behind the phenomenal collection. The online series of events is funded by…...
Winners of the Inaugural Ulster-Scots Writing Competition Announced
The Linen Hall Library has today announced the winners of the Linen Hall Ulster-Scots writing competition at a special ceremony to mark Ulster-Scots language week. The competition was sponsored by the Ulster-Scots Agency. First prize in the prose category went to Alan Millar (image left below) for ‘Sam an Jeck…...
LINEN HALL TO LAUNCH EXTRAORDINARY WEBSITE AND EXHIBITION 8 NOVEMBER
LINEN HALL LIBRARY CELEBRATES POWERFUL CONTRIBUTION MADE BY NI’S EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN IN A PROJECT THAT AMPLIFIES THE FEMALE VOICE The Linen Hall Library today (Monday, November 1st) launches the culmination of its ambitious collections-based community driven heritage project extraORDINARYwomen, in celebration of their powerful and important contribution to Northern Ireland…...
EXTRAORDINARY ARCHIVE AND EXHIBITION LAUNCH AT THE LINEN HALL IN NOVEMBER
I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR!LINEN HALL LAUNCHES EXTRAORDINARY WEBSITE AND EXHIBITIONSPOTLIGHTING NORTHERN IRISH WOMEN After two years of meticulous research and production, the Linen Hall Library will launch ‘extraORDINARYwomen’ on Monday 8 November. A new website and complementary exhibition will focus on Northern Irish women from 1965 to the…...
OCTOBER EVENTS AT THE LINEN HALL
The Linen Hall revisits and reinterprets the 1921 partition of Ireland in an insightful, new exhibition starting 4 October. This is complemented by a series of events featuring luminaries from academia, showbusiness, and politics. Are you happy? Or almost happy? On 11 October join Brian Kaplan MD and art therapist…...
