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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The Girona was one of the 130 ships that sailed in the Spanish Armada that aimed to land a Spanish Army in England in 1588 to depose Protestant Queen Elisabeth 1 and restore England to the Catholic faith. The Armada…
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This cabinet contains the Clonemore Shrine. It is the earliest example of Christian metalwork in Ireland dating from the seventh century AD and found in a field near Clonmore, County Armagh in 1990. It is a reliquary for the storage…
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