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…
St George’s Market is the last surviving Victorian covered market in Belfast. It was built between 1890 and 1896. It is located in an area known as the ‘Markets’ as it was dominated by the Belfast abattoir and animal and…
On 14 July 1792, the famous Belfast Harp festival was held in the Assembly Rooms. Ten harpists, most of them blind, took part in this celebration of the fall of the Bastille prison in Paris that had taken place three…
St George’s Market is the last surviving Victorian covered market in Belfast. It was built between 1890 and 1896. It is located in an area known as the ‘Markets’ as it was dominated by the Belfast abattoir and animal and…
This is Belfast Cathedral, and gives the Cathedral Quarter is name. Cathedral Quarter is a cultural and nightlife zone of the city and features the Metropolitan Arts Centre, the Black Box theatre, bars and restaurants. The Church is also known…
