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Due to the latest guidance from the NI Executive, our museums will remain closed for a planned 6 week period from the 23 December. We look forward to welcoming visitors back to our museums when it is safe to do so and we would like to thank the public for their continued support and patience.
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Postcard showing 'Ulster at Bay as in 1690 and Now.' Macaulay, writing of the Seige of Derry, 1690 says: "There, at length on teh verge of the ocean, hunted to the last asylum, and baited into a mood in which men may be destroyed, but will not easily be subjugated, the imperial race turned desperately to bay." On reverse: THOUGH DEAD< YET SPEAKETH. Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at Bayswater February, 1886, said: " He believed there were hundreds and thousands of English hearts and also hands ready when the moment of trial came when Protestants of Ireland were called upon, as they might be called upon, to give in a most practical and convincing form of demonstration a proof of their loyalty to the English Throne.... They would be of opinion that before the sun of the British Empire would commence to set, a blow would have to be, and a blow would be struck (cheers) the sound of which would go into all lands, and the echoes of which should reverberate into the uttermost corners of the earth."
Postcard featuring ‘Mr.Churchill sends a message to Ulster,' drawing of Bangor of British troopships allegedly being sent to help quell Ulster on 26th...
Postcard showing 'The Ill-Fated White Star Liner "Titanic" (45,000 Tons) Sunk by Collision with an Iceberg, April 15th 1912, with A Loss of 1,500 Soul...
Postcard depicting an 'Audience at Women's Anti-Home Rule Demonstration in the Ulster Hall, 30th September 1912.'...
Embossed postcard with clasped hands and shramrocks, sent as Patrick's Day card to Mr Rahilly Annalong from Kilkeel 1906....
Greetings postcard featuring girl with milking stool and pail with cottage behind; verse entitled 'Land of the Green'; sent to Miss Smyth Glassdummon...
Greetings postcard featuring farmer with 'Kitty of Coleraine' Sent to Miss Smyth Glassdrummond from Kilkeel 1905....
Pin badge 'Firm in Ulster's Cause.' Badge associated with the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council, founded January 1911. By 1913, with over 100,000 membe...
Close up of crowds on balcony of packed Ulster Hall on Ulster Day Eve, 27th September 1912....
Anti-Home Rule demonstration at Royal Ulster Agricultural Showgrounds, April 1912....
First World War recruitment poster; 'To Irishmen. To you fellow countrymen I appeal for help to raise a brigade to fight on the Western Front.' Recrui...