ECO statue
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…
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Dunnes Store, 1-15 High Street
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…
Dr James Murray
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…
Donegall Street Congregational Church
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…
Northern Bank robbery (Danske Bank)
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…