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The Belfast Literary Society was founded in 1801, the second oldest learned society in Belfast (the Belfast Reading Society, now the Linen Hall Library, predates it by just over a decade). Its first meeting was held in the old Exchange and Assembly Rooms on the junction of Bridge, North, Waring and Rosemary Streets.
The Library is now run by Northern Ireland Libraries, a public authority covering the whole of Northern Ireland. [2] Belfast Central Library houses a range of sections, including a lending library & Information and Business library still based in the original reading room. A Belfast, Ulster and Irish Department & Music Library on the top floor.
The original Linen Hall Library in 1888, shortly before its demolition and replacement with Belfast City Hall.. The Linen Hall Library is a unique institution. It was founded in 1788 by a group of artisans as the Belfast Reading Society and in 1792 became the Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge.
The Seamus Heaney Centre is located at Queen's University Belfast, and named after the late Seamus Heaney, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.Heaney graduated from Queens in 1961 with a First Class Honours in English language and literature.
The Library Quarter, sometimes referred to as Scotch Quarter and Press Quarter, is the area of Belfast City Centre, Northern Ireland, [1] [2] located around Belfast Central Library on Royal Avenue. The Library Quarter is bounded by Royal Avenue, Donegall Street, Carrick Hill and North Street.
The college was awarded a government grant of £4,600 (equivalent to £523,000 in 2023) [4] to construct the library, which was completed in 1868. [5] The continued growth of Queen's University of Belfast (as it had become in 1908 as a result of the Irish Universities Act 1908) saw the need to expand the library further. WH Lynn won the tender ...
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The Northern Ireland Music Archive is a digital archive of materials related to music from Northern Ireland.It is based on a publicly accessible computer system situated in the Music Library at Belfast Central Library, Belfast, County Antrim.