I’m delighted to be part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival 2024 and am leading three Drs & Diseases Tours on Belfast’s medical history. Dates are 18, 19 and 24 Feb from 14.00-15.30. Places can be booked at
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Dr Toms Tours is one half of team that is ASB. The tour explores Belfast’s complicity in the transatlantic slave trade & city’s valiant role as a hotspot of abolitionist activism. Dates 2024: Feb 11 & 25 Mar 10 &…
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Balmoral Cemetery was declared open to the public on 13 October 1855. The cemetery was built after Reverend Henry Cooke and Reverend Joseph Mackenzie of Malone were refused permission to carry out a ‘proper’ Presbyterian funeral in another churchyard. The…
ByadminToday marks the Jewish Festival of Yom Kippur. Many Jews in Belfast would have celebrated this festival at the Greenville Hall Synagogue, located on Annesley Street. This was opened in 1904 and was the second synagogue in Belfast, the first…
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Arthur Square is named after Arthur Chichester, the founding father of Belfast. Chichester obtained a charter to establish Belfast as a corporation, or town, from British King James in 1613. The site was originally known as the corn market and…
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