In 2026, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann – the world’s largest annual celebration of traditional Irish music, song, and dance – comes to Belfast. As part of the Fleadh Fringe Festival in Lisburn and Castlereagh, we have organised a programme of events on local history, heritage, and culture. Our programme runs from 31 July through 5 […]
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We’re excited to announce our Winter Talks for 2026! The talks are free and in person, and take place in the museum’s historic Assembly Room. Booking is essential. Doors open at 6.30pm for tea and coffee on arrival, and talks start promptly at 7pm. Please note there is no allocated seating for these events. Tuesday
It’s great to bring you details of our Lisburn Museum Culture Club programme for winter/spring 2026. There’s historical talks, music, bookbinding, and more! Our events are free and in person, and take place in the museum’s historic Assembly Room on Saturday afternoons. Tea and coffee will be served from 1:45pm, and talks start promptly at
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As part of EHOD 2025, the museum is opening its doors for two unique tours on Saturday 13 September. Booking is essential. Lisburn from Above! Behind the scenes at the museum Enjoy a new view of Lisburn with our clock tower tour. The museum’s clock tower has dominated Lisburn’s skyline since the early 19th century,
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We’re excited to announce our Lisburn Museum Culture Club programme for autumn/winter 2025. There’s historical talks, storytelling, and live music – taking you from military history to Belfast’s mills, St. Patrick to Christmas! Based on visitor feedback, we’ve moved our events to Saturday afternoons to make them more accessible for those who can’t attend on
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Moira Demesne Community Archaeology – June 2025 In summer 2018 the hot weather revealed the possible remains of Moira Castle. The following year, the museum partnered with the Centre for Community Archaeology (CCA) at Queen’s University Belfast to conduct a geophysical survey of the site. The results were promising, and in summer 2019 a two-week
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Our FREE popular summer workshops will start on Monday 18th July and will run every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (finishing on Wednesday 17th August). Workshops are one hour long from 10am-11am and 2pm-3pm. Booking is essential, please contact museum reception on 028 9266 3377 or ilc.reception@lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk Workshops will change daily and will include a variety of
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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
Thursday 11th April 2019 7pm – 9pm The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum is pleased to present Helen C. Jones, Research Librarian at The Wallace Collection. Helen concludes our programme of events celebrating Sir Richard Wallace’s bicentenary with her talk: “The great, the good and the interesting: a snapshot of late Victorian society uncovered
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
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
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Free Autumn Talks Programme 2017 Including: Michael Jackson, Philip Orr, Dr Henry Jeffries, Prof Johnston McMaster, Rev Dr Martyn Cowan and Piet Chielens. Autumn Talks Programme 2017: Tuesday 3 October – Saturday 28 October The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum presents its fourth series of autumn talks, which is designed to complement our exhibition
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Exhibition: Dennis H Osborne Artist – An Appreciation The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum’s new exhibition: Dennis H Osborne (1919-2016) Artist: An Appreciation features over 30 paintings and sketches from both the museum’s extensive Osborne collection, and a number of generous private donors and collections. A resident of Lisburn for over 20 years, Osborne
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The Somme, Our Story, 1916 To mark the Centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum presents its new major exhibition: The Somme, Our Story, 1916. Packed with letters, photographs, original artefacts, documents and archival footage, the exhibition offers up a social history of the
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Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th Birthday Exhibition Our new exhibition – titled: Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th Birthday Exhibition – will open in the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum on Monday 25 April, and will look back at the Queen’s 90 years. This will include displays of royal memorabilia, images and literature relating to royal visits to Lisburn
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Rising Voices: Lisburn at Easter 1916 New Exhibition On March 24th 2016 the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum opened ‘Rising Voices: Lisburn at Easter 1916’, a new exhibition exploring the Easter Rising and Lisburn, through the story of individuals associated with the town. When the Rising broke out in April 1916 Lisburn, like many towns in Ulster,
Exhibition (April 2015) – The ‘dreaded peninsula’ April 25th (Anzac Day), marks the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, a series of disastrous allied landings in, what is now, modern-day Turkey during the First World War (1914-1918). Turkey’s entry into the war had cut off the supply route between Britain and France and their ally Russia
