I led the first tour of the Festival for Social Sciences around Belfast today. Despite the rain and cold, we did a range of sites. Thanks to Raymond O’Regan, the historian of the First Presbyterian Church for his hospitality and…
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Saturday (6.11.21) marks the start of a series of walking tours as part of this year’s Festival of Social Science run by Queen University Belfast and Ulster University throughout November 2021. The Festival is run by the Economic and Social…
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In Botanic Gardens, in Belfast’s Queen’s Quarter, stands the Gift of Life sculpture commemorating those who have given people a chance to live through organ donation. The candle-shaped memorial was placed in the Gardens in June 2016 and gifted to…
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This display covers two important documents that underpin the eventual partition of Ireland in 1921, creating the Irish Free State, which later became the Republic of Ireland and what became Northern Ireland. The Solemn League and Covenant were signed on…
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This cabinet tells the story of the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion. The United Irishmen were a group of mainly middle-class Presbyterian merchants who undertook violent revolution to establish an independent Irish republic free of British control. They took their inspiration…
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