Launch of New Exhibition Marks 400 Years of Lisburn Cathedral A new exhibition which explores the history of Lisburn Cathedral has opened at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum. ‘Lisburn Cathedral: 400 years’ is open to the public Monday to Saturday, 9.30am-5.00pm and entry is free. Showcasing documents, photographs and original artefacts from the […]
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Sir George Rawdon has returned to Lisburn for first time in over 350 years Three portraits of the Rawdon family are now on display at the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum. It has been over 350 years since the portrait of Sir George Rawdon has been seen by the public. It is part of
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A new guide exploring the history of Hilden War Memorial was recently launched by the Mayor, Alderman Stephen Martin. The leaflet weaves together research, photographs, text and stories of the lives of the men who feature on the memorial. It also provides a colourful and accessible history of the monument. Free copies of the guide
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Mayor welcomes New Zealand High Commissioner to Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum Mayor of Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council, Alderman Stephen Martin was delighted to welcome His Excellency Mr Bede Corry, High Commissioner for New Zealand to the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum as part of his first trip to Northern Ireland. Along
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Call for local veterans: Join Lisburn Museum’s Force for Change Veterans’ Project Lisburn Museum is calling for local veterans to join its Force for Change Veterans’ Project aimed at giving voice to veterans and their families. The Museum has received funding of £20,000 from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust to create bespoke programmes with
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The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum is delighted to be involved with the Suffolk Cross Community Group’s project of rediscovering a shared heritage. ‘Rediscovering Linenopolis: West Belfast’s Shared Heritage’ is in partnership with the Half Moon Lake, Grosvenor and the Plough Men’s Sheds together with Springfield Healthy Living Centre. After visiting the award
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Exhibition exploring the life of Rev David Corkey, Chaplain to the Ulster Division, is celebrated with presentation to the Museum An artwork dedicated to Rev David Corkey (1882-1984), Minister at Dundrod Presbyterian Church and Chaplain to the 36th (Ulster) Division during WWI (1914-18) was recently presented to the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum. The
The life of Conn O’Neill (D.1619), who once owned land stretching from the Ards Peninsula to modern-day Lisburn, is told in a new book by local author Roy Greer. ‘Con O’Neill, Last Gaelic Lord of Upper Clannaboy’ was launched at a special evening event at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum on November 2019.
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A new guide to the monuments of Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, was recently launched by the Dean of Connor, The Very Reverend Sam Wright, and Alderman Paul Porter, Chair of the Council’s Leisure & Community Development Committee. The self-guided tour, a collaboration between the Cathedral and the Museum, tells the stories behind some
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Sir Richard Wallace’s Legacy Recognised with Presentation and Lecture at Lisburn Museum Suzanne Higgott, a curator at the Wallace Collection, spoke to a packed house on the life and work of Sir Richard Wallace (1818-90) at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum on Wednesday 29th November 2018. The lecture was part of both the
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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
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Musical Christmas Cracker at 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 Colin Sloan and harpist Ursula Burns. Tickets must be booked in advance and are
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The recent opening of two new exhibitions in The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum have been featured on Ulster University “The Shuttle & Shafts exhibition is a result of a two-year project funded by the National Lottery via the Heritage Lottery Fund and led by Senior Research Fellow Trish Belford of Ulster University to
A new exhibition exploring the role of women during and after the Great War (1914-18) has opened at the museum. ‘A voice of her own. A woman’s place after the Great War’ is open to the public Monday to Saturday, 9.30am -5.00pm, entry is free. The display includes the museum’s most recent acquisition, a rare
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The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum has acquired a rare medal awarded to local suffragette Lillian Metge. The medal was presented to Mrs Metge in recognition of a hunger strike she undertook in August 1914 while on trial for her alleged role in blowing up the east window of Lisburn Cathedral. The medal was
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The first visit of Sir Richard Wallace (1818-90) to Lisburn in 1873 is marked in a new souvenir edition of Lisburn Yarns published by the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum. The limited edition free newspaper can be picked up in the museum, open Monday to Saturday 9.30-5pm, as part of its hugely popular Sir
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On behalf of Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum will mark Ireland’s contribution to the Great War by collaborating in a special project with In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium. The museum was specially invited to donate a chair from its collection to sit alongside chairs from 120 other
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The ‘Sir Richard Wallace Exhibition: the life and legacy of a philanthropist, art collector and landlord’, was officially opened by Alderman Paul Porter, Chairman of the Council’s Leisure & Community Development Committee at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum. The free exhibition marks the bicentenary of the birth of Lisburn’s landlord Sir Richard Wallace
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Lisburn Suffragette story featured in a new NIMC book about ‘protest’ in Ulster A shard of glass from the window of Lisburn Cathedral, blown up by suffragettes in August 1st 1914 features in a new book from the Northern Ireland Museums Council (NIMC). In the book, titled ‘’Protest: A Collection from Local Museums in Northern
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New Reformation Exhibition Opens at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum The new exhibition entitled ‘Reformation 500: the Reformation in Europe, and its Local Legacy’ was officially opened at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum by Alderman James Tinsley, Chairman of the Council’s Leisure & Community Development Committee. This free exhibition marks the
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‘Lisburn 1918-23’ exhibition opens at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum A major new exhibition detailing the events in Lisburn from Armistice (1918) to the unveiling of the town’s war memorial in 1923 opened at the museum on June 26th 2017. The display includes rare and unusual material relating to the August 1920 ‘Swanzy
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