A voice of her own? A woman’s place after the Great War: Exhibition

During the Great War (1914-18) more women than ever went out to work, largely in support of the war effort. But what was the lasting legacy of the war for women? Did their new-found freedoms last?

In this exhibition the Museum will use objects and photographs from its collection to explore the place of women in Ireland from 1914-19, examining war work, at home and at the Front, as well as domestic life and politics.

Highlights of the exhibition include:

• Lisburn Suffrage, the 1914 bombing of Lisburn Cathedral and Lilian Metge’s rare WSPU Hunger Strike medal
• Nursing at the Front and at home, from sphagnum moss to Anna Barbour and Hilden Convalescent Home
• Women and domestic life during the war, from the Lusitania to Lisburn’s 11^th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles at the Somme
• Votes for women, from Lisburn’s first Guardians to its first female mayor, Elsie Kelsey
• A lost voice? The place of women in Ireland, north and south, after the war

For more information please contact Museum reception:

Email: ilc.reception@lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk

Tel: 028 9266 3377