Time: 12.15pm-1.45pm From Monday 13th April to Monday 22nd June (9 weeks). There is no class on Monday 4th or 25th May. Monday 13th April Monday 20th April Monday 27th April Monday 11th May Monday 18th May Monday 1st June Monday 8th June Monday 15th June Monday 22nd June This final part of the Beginnners […]
From Monday 13th April to Monday 22nd June (9 weeks). There is no class on Monday 4th or 25th May. Monday 13th April Monday 20th April Monday 27th April Monday 11th May Monday 18th May Monday 1st June Monday 8th June Monday 15th June Monday 22nd June The final module of Lower Intermediate Italian helps […]
This new, specially-curated exhibition will explore the development and growth of integrated education in Northern Ireland, drawing on the library’s unique archives and newly recorded oral history testimonies. Join us to discover more about the story of All Children Together, the parent-led campaign group formed in the early 1970s that in 1981 opened Lagan College, […]
Come and explore The Linen Hall’s Genealogy Collection This collection consists of a wide range of resources including historic newspapers and indexes, ‘how-to’ guides, individual family histories, gravestone inscriptions and passenger lists. Highlights include the unique collection of handwritten family trees known as the Blackwood Pedigrees; Birth, Death & Marriage indexes for the Belfast News […]
Delivered as part of the Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary, a partnership project with Poetry Ireland, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and The Linen Hall. This two-hour workshop will take the theme of the Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary, ‘Home Again’, as its starting point. ‘Home again’ conjures the places with which we are familiar, together with how […]
Frances Molloy (1947-1991) was the author of thirteen short stories (collected as Women are the Scourge of the Earth. 1998) and one novel, No Mate for the Magpie (1985), before her untimely death. Slim though this body of work is, it is without doubt significant. No Mate for the Magpie, written in Molloy’s own vernacular, demonstrates both the scope […]
Join us on a tour of the oldest library in the Belfast and the only remaining subscription library in Ireland. Housed in a Victorian-era former linen warehouse on Donegall Square North, The Linen Hall is home to The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge which developed from the Belfast Reading Society which was founded […]
At key moments in the history of our education system — the formation of the National School system in 1831 or the 1923 reforms from the first Northern Ireland government — there has been an official preference, but an unfulfilled ambition, for integrated education. The first planned integrated school only opened in 1981. Legislation in […]
Join us on a tour of the oldest library in the Belfast and the only remaining subscription library in Ireland. Housed in a Victorian-era former linen warehouse on Donegall Square North, The Linen Hall is home to The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge which developed from the Belfast Reading Society which was founded […]
Why is an Austrian archduchess who died nearly two-and-a-half centuries ago on a scaffold in Paris still one of the most famous characters in history, the object of countless films, TV series and exhibitions throughout the world? Why does she continue to inspire fashion collections and advertising campaigns? What makes her such a recognisable figure […]
Come and explore The Linen Hall’s world-renowned political collection on a collections-based tour which explores the history of the recent past through the prism of the rare and unique artefacts and objects we have been collecting for over 50 years. Started in 1968 with one civil rights leaflet, this incredible collection now holds over 350,000 […]
Join us on a tour of the oldest library in the Belfast and the only remaining subscription library in Ireland. Housed in a Victorian-era former linen warehouse on Donegall Square North, The Linen Hall is home to The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge which developed from the Belfast Reading Society which was founded […]
Join us on a tour of the oldest library in the Belfast and the only remaining subscription library in Ireland. Housed in a Victorian-era former linen warehouse on Donegall Square North, The Linen Hall is home to The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge which developed from the Belfast Reading Society which was founded […]
Join us on a tour of the oldest library in the Belfast and the only remaining subscription library in Ireland. Housed in a Victorian-era former linen warehouse on Donegall Square North, The Linen Hall is home to The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge which developed from the Belfast Reading Society which was founded […]
Join us for a compelling panel discussion exploring the future of integrated education in Northern Ireland. Our panellists include Paul Caskey (Chief Executive Officer of the Integrated Education Fund), Stephen Roulston (Honorary Research Fellow at Ulster University) and Michele Marken (former Principal of St Joseph’s College). The panel will reflect on the history of integrated […]
Join us on a tour of the oldest library in the Belfast and the only remaining subscription library in Ireland. Housed in a Victorian-era former linen warehouse on Donegall Square North, The Linen Hall is home to The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge which developed from the Belfast Reading Society which was founded […]
In this talk, cinema historian Sam Manning uses a 1939 diary to explore cinema-going habits in 1930s Belfast. The anonymous diarist recorded and rated all 325 films they saw in 1939, revealing their preferences at a time when a trip to the flicks was the most popular leisure activity. The talk also looks at the […]
Join us on a tour of the oldest library in the Belfast and the only remaining subscription library in Ireland. Housed in a Victorian-era former linen warehouse on Donegall Square North, The Linen Hall is home to The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge which developed from the Belfast Reading Society which was founded […]
Join us on a tour of the oldest library in the Belfast and the only remaining subscription library in Ireland. Housed in a Victorian-era former linen warehouse on Donegall Square North, The Linen Hall is home to The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge which developed from the Belfast Reading Society which was founded […]
Come and explore The Linen Hall’s world-renowned political collection on a collections-based tour which explores the history of the recent past through the prism of the rare and unique artefacts and objects we have been collecting for over 50 years. Started in 1968 with one civil rights leaflet, this incredible collection now holds over 350,000 […]
Join us on a tour of the oldest library in the Belfast and the only remaining subscription library in Ireland. Housed in a Victorian-era former linen warehouse on Donegall Square North, The Linen Hall is home to The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge which developed from the Belfast Reading Society which was founded […]
Join us on a tour of the oldest library in the Belfast and the only remaining subscription library in Ireland. Housed in a Victorian-era former linen warehouse on Donegall Square North, The Linen Hall is home to The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge which developed from the Belfast Reading Society which was founded […]