Free Historical Walking Tours for Positive Ageing Month Join our expert guides, and explore Lisburn's rich history, from significant buildings and streets in the town, to the graves and monuments of some of Lisburn's most famous residents. The tours celebrate Positive Ageing Month. If you would like to find [...]
Winter Talks Programme 2020 feat Pearse Lawlor, Chris Magill, Brian Walker, Cormac Moore, Alan Parkinson and Patricia Marsh We are pleased to announce our Winter 2020/2021 online talks programme, supported by Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council's Good Relations Programme. The talks are free and will take place online via Youtube at 7pm (the previously scheduled [...]
Welcome to the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum’s 2019 Autumn Events Programme. The Museum presents its sixth annual Autumn Events Programme. Featuring talks, exhibitions, community engagement projects, workshops and film screenings, the programme has something for visitors of all ages. This year we feature: Kate Adie, Donna Gilligan, Eamon Phoenix, Brenda Collins and Ruairí [...]
A huge thank you to our visitors for their support - this has been our most successful Autumn Events Programme to date! About the Programme The museum launched its fifth annual events programme in September 2018. The programme marked a number of significant anniversaries, including the end of the Great War and the granting of [...]
History of the local ‘votes for women’ campaign explored in a talk at the Museum Almost 100 people attended a talk on the history of women’s suffrage in Lisburn and the life of local suffragette Lilian Metge at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum on Wednesday 21st November 2018. The talk was part of [...]
New performance by Philip Orr marking the end of the Great War in Lisburn The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum has commissioned a performance by historian and playwright Philip Orr to mark Armistice, the end of the Great War (1914-18). The premiere of the work will take place on 1st December 2018 at [...]
Musical Christmas Cracker at Lisburn Museum Music and Festive Food at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum will host a musical Christmas extravaganza on 15th December 2018. The evening will feature festive music from award-winning brass band Dynamic Brass, local author and rising literary star [...]
The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum presents its fifth annual autumn programme, a diverse range of events marking a number of significant anniversaries. These include the end of the Great War and the granting of ‘votes for women’ in 1918, through to the bicentenary of the birth of Sir Richard Wallace (1818-90), the subject [...]
