Tuberculosis (TB) was a major killer in late 19th century and early 20th century Belfast. In the early 1900s an epidemic of the disease led to 13,000 deaths in Ireland. TB is caused by a bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria…
On the outbreak of the Great War on 4 August 1914, the former Robinson and Cleaver department store building on Donegall Square, opposite the City Hall, was subject to anti-German vandalism by a Germanophobic mob. If you look between the…
The three steel cut-out figures represent a shipyard worker who helped build the Nomadic, a French waiter who served on the Nomadic and Charlie Chaplin, possibly her most famous passenger. This sculpture was erected as part of the Sustrans Portrait…
Sir Daniel Dixon was seven times Chief Magistrate, Chairman of the Harbour Board and Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1892-1893, 1901-1903 and 1905-1906. This memorial was unveiled in 1910. Do you want to learn more about the history of Belfast?…
Unveiled in 1919, this statue is to R.J. McMordie, Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1910 to 1914. He served as MP for Belfast East and his wife Julia McMordie, was one of two women elected to the first Parliament of…
Sir James Haslett was Mayor of Belfast from 1887-1888. The statue was unveiled in 1909 and was sculpted by Frederick W Pomeroy. Haslett was educated at Inst and became a successful chemist and druggist. Do you want to learn more…
The statue by Thomas Brock was unveiled in 1903. Edward Harland was the founder of the Harland and Wolff shipyard. He was also the Mayor of Belfast from 1885 until 1886 and MP for North Belfast from 1889 until his…
The current replaced a previous St Patrick’s Church built between 1810 and 1812. The new and current church was built in the Gothic Revival Church and erected in the mid-1870s. It features a gable rose window, red sandstone with limestone…
St. Mary’s Church was opened in 1784. At the time, it was the only Roman Catholic church in the then town of Belfast and the census of 1782 recorded only 365 Catholics living in Belfast city. It was funded by…
St Malachy’s Church was constructed in 1840 and designed by Thomas Jackson in the Tudor Revival style. It is reminiscent of Queen’s College in having Tutor arches, being of brick construction and Elizabethan symmetry. It also has touches of Gothic…
