Tura Arutura

Tura Arutura

Eileen Bell

Eileen Bell

John Kindness – Retrospective Exhibition

John Kindness – Retrospective Exhibition

Getting to Know You: Natty Wailer

Getting to Know You: Natty Wailer

Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson

(The First) East Belfast Lantern Parade

(The First) East Belfast Lantern Parade

Northern Ireland War Memorial

Northern Ireland War Memorial

Gallows & other tales of suspicion and obsession

Gallows & other tales of suspicion and obsession

The Legacy Programme

The Legacy Programme

Angela Ifonlaja

Angela Ifonlaja

A Century Later: Ethnic Minorities in Northern Ireland – Identities and Shared Histories

A Century Later: Ethnic Minorities in Northern Ireland – Identities and Shared Histories

Joseph Ricketts

Joseph Ricketts

General Collections highlights

Afghanistan: Chronotopia

Afghanistan: Chronotopia

A discussion between Belfast Exposed and Simon Norfolk on his wonderful exhibition of photographs, a personal vision of a war-ravaged landscape (2004). “I was reminded of the story of Schliemann’s discovery of the ...

Circus School

Circus School

The first Circus School exchange programme with Belfast Community Circus and the international association CARAVAN Network, which brings together young people from seven different nations throughout Europe to learn an...

Ulster Scots Agency Folk Festival

Ulster Scots Agency Folk Festival

The 2006 festival.

July 29th, 2006 was the day Rosemount Estate in Greyabbey celebrated the 400th anniversary of the settlement of the Hamilton and Montgomery families in Ulster. The rapid development of the Ards and north Down was d...

McGurk’s Bar Bombing – Loss of Innocence

McGurk’s Bar Bombing – Loss of Innocence

Discussing the 1971 bombing.

Relatives of those who were killed and injured in the McGurk's Bar bombing talk of that night and its aftermath. On 4 December 1971, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), exploded a bomb at McGurk's Bar in Belfast, Nor...

Heritage Collections highlights

Kate O Hanlon

Kate O Hanlon

Nursing at the RVH

The eldest of five children, Kate O Hanlon was born in the Markets area of Belfast in 1930. Her father worked in the Market, “That was a fruit market, where the Waterfront is today, that was all fish markets and the b...

A Century Later: John Lennon

A Century Later: John Lennon

A dangerous job as an armourer in World War Two living on an airbase with constant air raids and the sound of bombs raining down. “We put guns and rockets into the aircraft and sent them on their way”

Margaret McDevitt

Margaret McDevitt

Growing up on the Donegall Road

As a child Margaret lived on Ulrika Street now Ulrika Terrace on the Donegall Road with her older sister and brother. “There were no nurseries and you didn’t get to school until you were seven years old” Margar...

Vera Henderson

Vera Henderson

Community development in Tyrone

Vera had a tough start to life. Her mother died when she was only one year old. Her father, unable to manage, sent her to a home until he remarried when Vera was 4 years old. “I don’t remember an awful lot about it be...