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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, […]
Alice Milligan (1866-1953) was the most significant writer-activist of the Irish Cultural Revival. A northern Protestant, born in Omagh, her contribution to Irish cultural life is enormous, but largely forgotten. A contemporary of Yeats, AE Russell, Maud Gonne, Roger Casement, and a number of other key figures, Alice was an activist, poet, publisher, essayist, dramatist, […]
Come and explore The Linen Hall’s world-renowned political collection every Wednesday 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 […]
Join us for the launch of our exhibition, All Children Together and the Story of Integrated Education in Northern Ireland. This event will include a programme of contributions and reflections from guest speakers including: Cecil Linehan (founder member of All Children Together) Brian Lambkin ( founder teacher and later Principal of Lagan College) Noreen Campbell […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 every Wednesday 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 […]
Booking is essential for all events including free events. All event tickets are non-refundable. Please view our Customer Service Policy.
