Funded by The Pilgrim Trust, Objects, History & Me is an exhibition that explores the experiences of a group of young women living in a post-conflict society. The project leading to the exhibition aimed to inspire and empower young women, provided access to public spaces and equipped them with new skills.…...
Migration As Seen Through the Eye of a Camera is Focus of Linen Hall September Exhibition
MIGRATION AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYE OF A CAMERA IS FOCUS OF LINEN HALL SEPTEMBER EXHIBITION Launching at the Linen Hall on 5 September is Migration, Memory and Mimesis¸ an exhibition cameoing three artists working in photographic practices exploring the theme of migration. Award-winning painter Sean McGibbon is also showing…...
Innovative Linen Art Exhibition ‘Flax Field’ Features Embedded Sound
INNOVATIVE LINEN ART EXHIBTION FEATURES EMBEDDED SOUND – NEW AND EXCLUSIVELY AT THE LINEN HALL IN AUGUST A unique art exhibition visually celebrating flax and linen entitled Flax Field is taking place at the Linen Hall Library in August. Master printmaker Josephine McCormick has created a series of artwork some…...
Linen Hall Library in Conjunction with Ulster University Seeks Intern
The opportunity has arisen for a volunteer graduate internship at the Linen Hall Library. This placement is specifically aimed at those who are planning to undertake the Postgraduate Certificate / Diploma in Library & Information Management at Ulster University. The successful applicant will be required to contribute to the work…...
Arts Council Northern Ireland Pulls Funding for Linen Hall Events Programme
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…...
