The Linen Hall Library has received notification from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland regretfully informing us that our application for funding through its National Lottery Programme Project funding stream has been unsuccessful. The amount, appoximately £25,000, pays for our popular cultural events programme which includes lectures, exhibitions, performances and readings.…...
Linen Hall Receives £50,000 for New Cultural Project
Linen Hall Receives £50,000 Grant From HLF, Tourism NI and the Dept for Communities for New Cultural Project The Linen Hall Library is delighted to receive a £50,000 grant as one of nine projects chosen by Heritage Lottery Fund Northern Ireland to explore new ways to celebrate and promote Northern…...
Heaney and Longley 1968 Poetry Tour de Force Revisited in May
Linen Hall Marks 50 Years Since Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley Embarked on Poetry Tour de Force Fifty years ago, at a time when Northern Ireland balanced precariously on the brink of 30 years of conflict, poets Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley (pictured) embarked on an unprecedented regional poetry reading…...
A Career Captured and Donated to the Linen Hall
Facinating Local Journalist Archive Donated to the Library The Library was delighted to receive a donation from Susan Baker of the work of her late mother journalist Ruth Barnett Baker. A prolific writer who started at the Belfast News Letter as a junior reporter, Ruth Barnett Baker eventually worked her…...
New and Exclusive ‘Troubles’ Photographic Exhibition at the Linen Hall in April
The Desolation and Destruction of the ‘Troubles’ Captured in New and Exclusive Linen Hall Photography Exhibition Launching on 10 April in the Linen Hall is the poignant photography exhibition Melancholy Witness Images of the Troubles by Séan Hillen. The documentary feel of the images elicits a powerful emotional response. Also…...
Linen Hall Studies Faces and Places in Two June Exhibitions
LINEN HALL STUDIES FACES AND PLACES IN TWO JUNE EXHIBITIONS The little known, but hugely influential, Belfast poet Pádraic Fiacc is the inspiration behind the art exhibition Faces of Fiacc, launching at the Linen Hall on 1 June. Also in June visual artist Kevin Hamilton takes us on a kaleidoscopic…...
Iconic Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo is Inspiration Behind Well-Being Art Exhibition at the Linen Hall In March
Iconic Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo Is The Inspiration Behind Well-Being Art Exhibition at the Linen Hall in March Northern Ireland service users have tapped into the colourful life and art of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo as the inspiration for a new art exhibition, In Full Bloom, launching on 1 March.…...
Internationally renowned journalist Kate Adie OBE to launch the Linen Hall Library’s new digital resource ‘Divided Society’
Internationally renowned journalist Kate Adie OBE to launch the Linen Hall Library’s new digital resource ‘Divided Society’ ‘Divided Society’ is a Heritage Lottery-funded digital archive on the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ and peace process. The resource will be launched by acclaimed journalist Kate Adie OBE on Monday the 22nd of January.…...
