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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.

 

 


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Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting will take place at 6.00pm on Wednesday 5 April 2023.

May Outing

The May outing will be held on a date to be confirmed.

Refurbishment of Drummond Grave

The Society is seeking to refurbish the grave of its first President, James Lawson Drummond.

The Refurbishment of the Drummonds’ Grave in Ahoghill

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