In 2021, to celebrate the 10 years of filming of HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones in Northern Ireland, Tourism Ireland created six giant, stained glass windows depicting some of the most iconic scenes from the series. These windows – known…
Friar’s Bush Cemetery is a burial site used since Medieval times up until 1869 when it was closed and the new Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast was used. It has traditionally been a Catholic cemetery and many leading Catholic citizens…
The Europa Hotel is a four-star hotel in Great Victoria Street, Belfast. It is known as the “most bombed hotel in the world” after having suffered 36 bomb attacks during the Troubles. It opened in July 1971 and was built…
On the 2017 commemoration of International Women’s Day, the Ulster History Circle unveiled a blue plaque for Emma Duffin at her former University Square home in south Belfast. Duffin was best known for her work as a nurse and was…
Elmwood Hall is a modern day concert hall owned by Queen’s University Belfast. It was built originally as the Elmwood Presbyterian Church and erected in 1862. The building has a mixture of styles, principally Italianate with a spire on top…
The public art piece is in front of the McClay Library at Queen University Belfast and was created by the Breton artist Marc Didou. It is made of bronze and is in response to the artist’s investigation of digital imaging…
The original four storey building was constructed in 1929-30 for F.W. Woolworth. It is a fine example of Art Deco design and occupied by Woolworth’s until 2003.[1][2] Henry Joy McCracken was executed in July 1798 on the corner of Dunnes…
Murray was Born at Culnady, Co Londonderry. Educated in Edinburgh, at the age of nineteen he was appointed apothecary at Belfast’s Dispensary and Fever Hospital (later the General Hospital and then Royal Victoria Hospital) but left after a year to…
The Congregational Church tabernacle was built in 1805 and was described of ‘spartan simplicity’. A second church was built on this site in 1858 and constructed in the ‘primeval Gothic design’ using ‘Scrabo stone’ quarried in Co. Down. On 15…
On 20 December 2004, a total of £26.5 million in cash was stolen from the headquarters of Northern Bank on Donegall Square West in Belfast. Having taken family members of two bank officials hostage, an armed gang forced the workers…
