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*Rescheduled* Open Heritage 2022 Events
Doorways Tell Stories Walking Tours - 1st & 2nd October
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The rescheduled dates have been announced to join UAH supported by Belfast City Council for Open Heritage Belfast 2022! This year we will be exploring the fascinating history of Belfast’s doorways through online tours, walking tours and photography and oral history workshops.
On the Doorways Tell Stories Walking Tour, we will be exploring the history and architecture of doorways across Belfast City Centre including College Square, Great Victoria Street, the Linen Conservation Area and Victoria Street. Come with us to discover the hidden histories of Belfast’s doorways and what lies within!
This event is run as part of Open Heritage Belfast, in partnership with Belfast City Council.
Event is FREE, booking essential, all are welcome. Please bring comfortable walking shoes and weather appropriate clothing.
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*Rescheduled* Open Heritage 2022 Events
Oral History Workshop - 1st October
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The reschedule dates have been announced to join UAH supported by Belfast City Council for Open Heritage Belfast 2022! This year we will be exploring the fascinating history of Belfast’s doorways through online tours, walking tours and photography and oral history workshops.
Join us in the Old Museum Building, where we will explore the concept of oral history and how this can be used to record the stories of our doorways. We will hold a 1 hour workshops with PhD student Philip Rivers, where he will walk us through how oral histories promote other ways of recording our intangible heritage. He will walk us through the meaning of oral histories, why we use them, and how we can encourage their use.
Our oral history workshops will be led by Philip Rivers. Philip is a final year PhD researcher based in the School of Law at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is a Postgraduate Associate of the Institute of Irish Studies.
This event is run as part of Open Heritage Belfast, in partnership with Belfast City Council.
Event is FREE, booking essential, all are welcome. Please note that there is currently no lift and the front entrance is by way of a number of steps.
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*Rescheduled* Open Heritage 2022 Events
Photography Workshop - 2nd October
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The rescheduled dates to join UAH supported by Belfast City Council for Open Heritage Belfast 2022 have been announced! This year we will be exploring the fascinating history of Belfast’s doorways through online tours, walking tours and photography and oral history workshops.
On our photography workshop, you will be learning to look at your surroundings in a new way- through a lens! Led by talented architectural photographer David Bunting, you will be learning how to capture the essence of Belfast’s historic doorways and sense of place through photography. The tour will highlight the dramatic features of the city’s architecture. Participants will need to bring their own camera, smartphone or tablet to take part.
FREE and Open to All. Booking Essential.
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Open Heritage 2022 Events
*ONLINE TOUR AVAILABLE NOW*
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To coincide with our free booklet documenting 40 of the most iconic and important doors in Belfast City Centre, we are delighted to launch an online tour, with a story-map locating all of the doors across the city. Visit our website to start the tour at your own pace, create your own walking tour, or just learn more about the history of our most iconic doors from the comfort of your own home!
The Story-Map is FREE to access, register now and start exploring!
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Henry Seaver, A Monumental Architect
Lecture by Dr Paul Harron, Friday 7th October
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UAH Chief Executive Dr Paul Harron will give a talk on the architect
Henry Seaver to mark the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone at the Knockagh Monument (which he designed) on Friday 7 October in Ballymena Town Hall at 7.30pm.
The talk will be entitled ‘Henry Seaver, a Monumental Architect’, and will include discussion of the monument, the architect’s life and family and some highlights of his practice such as the Belfast Evening Telegraph in Royal Avenue, St. John’s Church, Malone, Saul Church near Downpatrick and the Scottish Temperance Building on the corner of Bedford Street and Donegall Square North, Belfast.
If you are interested in attending please contact UAH via email in...@uahs.org.uk who will pass on your details to Mid & East Antrim Borough Council.
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Armagh Robinson Library
Adopt a book or a shelf!
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Armagh Robinson Library has over 40,000 literary gems – from medieval Books of Hours and early editions of the Bible to classic literature, books on science, mathematics, art, music and travel. It’s a truly international collection with works in over eight languages including highly prized texts in Irish. One of the highlights of the collection is Jonathan Swift’s own annotated copy of Gulliver’s Travels, dating from 1726.
To help to future-proof its collections, the Armagh Robinson Library is seeking support from individuals, families, groups or businesses to help continue developing, conserving and protecting these treasures – thus fulfilling the Greek inscription on the Library entrance as ‘the healing place of the soul’. From £50 to £1,000, there is a range of ‘Adopt-a-Book’ and ‘Adopt-a-Shelf’ options to choose from.
For further information, please contact the Armagh Robinson Library.
Website: armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/adopt, email ad...@armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk or call the library on 028 3752 3142.
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Enniskillen – Fifty Years On
1st October 2022
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Enniskillen’s position, wedged between the two Loughs Erne, made it a natural place for defence and later for marketing and administration – and acute traffic challenges. Its townscape was determined as much by geography as by planning. Its buildings, ranging from mediaeval to modern, include significant works by William Farrell, John O’Neill, W.J.Barre, William Scott and Shanks and Leighton.
Fifty years ago, Hugh Dixon was preparing the UAHS List for the town which was eventually published in 1973. Join Hugh for a tour of the town, noting change and progress and seeing if he still agrees with his younger self.
The tour will begin at Enniskillen Castle at 10.30am. Tea/coffee and a light lunch will be provided.
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