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…...
Linen Hall Brings LGBTQ+ Archive Out of the Closet in Staging Sexuality
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…...
Linen Hall Retains 4-star Visitor Attraction Rating from Tourism Northern Ireland
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…...
It’s a Month of Reading and Being Read To at the Linen Hall in March
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…...
Official Launch of Linen Hall ‘Women in the Archives’ Project Today
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 Poignantly Expressed Through Art in New Linen Hall Exhibition
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…...
Linen Hall Powers Into New Year With Two New Exhibitions Centred Around Conflict and Robert Burns
Intricate textiles created in areas of conflict around the world feature in the exhibition Torn From Home: Remembering the Holocaust at the Linen Hall from 10 January. And it’s a Burn’s bonanza this month with an exhibition and events around our world-famous Burns collection, the second largest outside of Scotland.…...
