Stories involving Belfast & beyond. Read about our myths & legends over the centuries and true stories of our people and products.
Belfast’s first museum, located in College Square North, was the first museum in Ireland to be financed solely through public donations.
A popular tourist destination, Glenarm Castle has been home to the Earls of Antrim and the McDonnell family for 400 years.
Laura Bell was a noted Irish beauty, who led a somewhat flamboyant and notorious life, with an unexpected ‘twist in the tail’!
The news in 1876 – August 1876 – Severe Gales, Theft of Feathers, Injury of Clothes and the Days of Coaches
Groomsport, Co. Down, popular with retirees, week-end visitors and sailing enthusiasts , has a history of Vikings, wealth and tragedy.
Today Crown Entry is only a sad reflection of what it once was, when schools, and shops and houses and businesses jostled for space.
Queen Street’s Belfast Hospital for Sick Children opened in April 1879 funded through donations and subscriptions. Today it lies derelict
What was being reported in our local newspapers 150 years ago? Read some of the news & stories of July 1876
Edward Bunting was a celebrated musician who gifted us a precious inheritance of the matchless melodies of our native bards…
Marquis Street today is an abandoned thoroughfare, its long history forgotten but it played a surprising part in Belfast’s development.
The extraordinary true story of Newry’s James Gill, a steeplejack who became a national celebrity for evading jail by sitting on a chimney
What was being reported in our local newspapers 150 years ago? Read some of the news & stories of June 1876
How many walking down Howard Street in Belfast today realise that it once hosted Belfast’s “House of Correction” – a prison to be feared!
What was being reported in our local newspapers 150 years ago? Read some of the news & stories of May 1876
Cushendall, County Antrim is a pretty, friendly, colourful and busy village with a colourful history to match.
What was being reported in our local newspapers 150 years ago? Read some of the news & stories of April 1876
A small 17th‑century street, Church Lane has an impressive history featuring a myriad of occupants, ghosts, bars and ‘Bullseye Braithwaite’
Belfast has ‘lost’ many quirkily named streets, lanes and alleys over the years, among them Cooney’s Court, Bluebell Entry and Elbow Lane
The newspapers of March 1876 delivered a variety of stories including deadly duel, a Newfoundland Ghost and a “Pretty Girls’ Fund”
The Newtownstewart Bank Murder Trial – “the most extraordinary case ever tried in this or any other country”
The newspapers of February 1876 covered a range of stories including court proceedings, “babes” in the city and murder at a “Spelling Bee”