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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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White painted kitchen chair belonging to Edward Cushnahan, Belfast. On the bottom of the seat of the chair are pasted two photocopied photographs of Cushnahan's coal cart and horse and family, dated 1910, the lower one inscribed ' This is horse and cart used by Edward Cushnahan for family coal business. It was also used to take a chair from his home 51 Pilot Street to Peel Street and Mary Street for James Connolly to stand on and make social and political speeches.' James Connolly often stood on this chair in order to address the Belfast public. Between 1911 and 1913, he lived in the west of the city, working as a labour organiser, standing as a candidate in municipal elections and striving for the creation of a unified Irish Labour Party.
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...