Taken from the Museum’s extensive art collection, the exhibition depicts views of Lisburn from its recent past, and examines the town’s architectural heritage, from Georgian townhouses to long-forgotten secret gardens.  The exhibition is open Monday to Saturday, 9.30-5pm and entry is free.

Highlights of the exhibition include scenes of:

• Bridge Street
• Union Bridge
• Piper’s Hill
• Market Square
• Railway Street
• Castle Street
• Seymour Street

And work from Jim Dunlop, Jack Calderwood, Anna Cheyne , Patrick Stevenson PPRUA, Joe O’Kane, Eric McCully, Stephen Gourley and Raymond Piper.

‘Peace Day, 1919: Living and remembering in the aftermath of the Great War’ is a major new exhibition from the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum.

The Great War raged in Europe from 1914-18 and affected all aspects of life in Lisburn and district, with almost 1000 local men and women losing their lives.  In summer 1919, as world powers were making plans for peace in Europe, towns and cities across the British Isles looked to honour their ex-servicemen and women, living and dead, through a day of celebrations.

Peace Day was held in Lisburn on 16 August 1919, and the town held a huge civic parade and reception to honour ex-servicemen, while a temporary cenotaph in Market Square honoured the war dead.  The day was remembered as one of the ‘greatest in Lisburn’s history’.

The exhibition features objects and photographs from its collection to explore Peace Day celebrations.  Highlights include:

• Original artefacts from Lisburn’s Peace Day organising committee
• Rare photographs of the parade and ex-servicemen
• Medals, uniforms and stories of Lisburn soldiers and sailors
• Recreated temporary cenotaph and memory wall – record your views, thoughts or family memories of the Great War
• First Edition copy of the Treaty of Versailles

The exhibition coincides with Northern Ireland’s Armed Forces Day, 22 June 2019, and hosted by Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council.

Rev David Corkey (1882-1924) was minister at Dundrod Presbyterian Church from 1911.  During the Great War he served as a chaplain to various units on the Western Front, and in particular the 36th (Ulster) Division at Le Havre.

In this exhibition we explore the life and work of Rev Corkey, from his early years on missionary work in Belfast to his war work.  An avid diarist and letter writer, the exhibition  explores the war years through Rev Corkey’s words, from the loss of lost his left arm to a shrapnel wound, and the tragic death of his first wife in 1916, through the his experience of Armistice in Marseilles, France, in November 1918.

Alongside letters, objects and photographs, the exhibition includes a triptych, or three-panelled work of art, dedicated to Rev Corkey.

The exhibition showcases the Museum’s vast collections and celebrates 40 years of collecting Lisburn’s history!  The Museum is reviving the spirit of the cabinet of curiosity and presenting an eclectic mix of objects from the collection, including rare objects, curiosities, photographs, postcards, art, and much more!

An exhibition featuring pieces from contemporary Batik artist Mary Lee Murphy.

About the artist

Mary Lee Murphy is a visual artist working through the medium of wax resist and dye. She has explored this medium for the last thirty years, and over this time has developed her own unique contemporary approach.

She draws her inspiration directly from nature and also from traditional Indonesian Batik.

The background to her work involves many hours drawing in the landscape in Connemara and more recently in her garden in Sligo, both these locations influencing her work, and the subsequent development of her textile pieces.

Mary was born in Waterford City and went to Sligo to study Fine Art, where she continues to work in her countryside studio.

Mary’s work has been widely acclaimed throughout Ireland, having exhibited in fifteen solo shows to date, and numerous group, open submission and invited exhibitions in Ireland and abroad.

This exhibition is Mary’s first in Northern Ireland and features 15 original pieces on cotton, silk and linen woven in the Museum’s weaving workshop.