Events

The Belfast Society Lecture Programme September 2022-April 2023

All lectures will take place at 6.30pm in The Old Museum Building in College Square North, or by Zoom as indicated below.

2022

Wednesday 7 September

The inaugural lecture for the 2022-2023 Series will be given by William Blair, Director of Collections, NMNI – ‘Transforming the Ulster Museum: A New Vision’

Wednesday 5 October

Dr Sharon Arbuthnot – ‘Before Finn McCool:  Lough Neagh in Medieval Irish Literature’ (By Zoom)

Wednesday 9 November

Professor Alun Evans – ‘Love thy Neighbour? The Museum’s Curtilage and Vicinage’

Wednesday 7 December

Dr Alison Muir – ‘Paper Mills in Ireland’

2023

Wednesday 4 January

Dr Mark McCartney – ‘Professor Karl G Emeleus, former Professor of Physics, QUB, 1901-1989 – “An able, modest and thoroughly capable man”‘

Wednesday 8 February

Professor Roy Spence – ‘Reflections of a Surgeon of the Troubles’

Wednesday 8 March

Sylvia Sumira – ‘Saving the earth, and the heavens: the Conservation of historic globes’

Wednesday 5 April

Emeritus Professor Cormac O Grada – ‘The New York Famine Irish and their Bank’

The Annual General Meeting will take place at 6pm on Wednesday 5 April 2023.

Details of the May outing will be circulated nearer the time.