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Belfast Natural History & Philosophical Society

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Founded in 1821 to promote knowledge in the arts and sciences.
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As part of #EHOD on Sat 11th Sept at 11.00am we are sharing a lecture on the history of the Society by Professor Brian Walker. belfastsociety.org/events

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The Society is seeking to refurbish the grave of its first President, James Lawson Drummond. For more information and the fundraising appeal, see belfastsociety.org/the-refurbishm…

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2022 / 23 Inaugural Lecture next Wednesday, 7th September at the Old Museum Building at 6.30pm. Our speaker for the evening is William Blair, Director of Collections at NMNI and his title is ’Transforming the Ulster Museum: A New Vision.'

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👀 Part of #EHOD22, UAH have developed a FREE informative booklet highlighting some of Belfast’s most iconic doorways. Over the next few days UAH will be sharing a few entries from this booklet! #OpenHeritageBelfast #EHOD22 Kindly supported by Belfast City Council

👀 Part of #EHOD22, UAH have developed a FREE informative booklet highlighting some of Belfast’s most iconic doorways. Over the next few days UAH will be sharing a few entries from this booklet! #OpenHeritageBelfast #EHOD22

Kindly supported by <a href="/belfastcc/">Belfast City Council</a>
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✨Doorways Tell Stories✨ 🚪DOOR ONE: The Old Museum Building, 7 College Square North (1831)🚪The first museum in Ireland to be erected by voluntary subscription, built by the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society. #OpenHeritageBelfast #EHOD22

✨Doorways Tell Stories✨
🚪DOOR ONE: The Old Museum Building, 7 College Square North (1831)🚪The first museum in Ireland to be erected by voluntary subscription, built by the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society.

#OpenHeritageBelfast #EHOD22
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Our next lecture is in person at the Old Museum Building on Wednesday 9th November at 6.30pm. We hope you will join us there to hear our speaker for the evening, Our President, Professor Alun Evans, when his title will be: Love Thy Neighbour? The Museum’s Curtilage and Vicinage.

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Next Lecture is Dr Allison Muir "Paper Mills in Ireland"– Wednesday 7th September at 6.30pm in The Old Museum Building in College Square North. As it will be our last lecture before Christmas, it will be followed by some seasonal cheer, including a drink.

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First lecture of 2023 is on Wednesday 4th January at the Old Museum Building. Dr Mark McCartney - Professor Karl G Emeleus, Former Professor of Physics at Queen’s: ‘An Able, Modest and Thoroughly Capable Man’

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The lecture this evening in the Old Museum Building at 6.30pm will be given by the distinguished academic Professor Roy Spence: ‘Reflections of a Surgeon of the Troubles’.

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The AGM of the Society will be held at 6.00pm this evening, Wednesday 5th April, and will be followed at 6.30 by a lecture by Professor Emeritus Cormac Ó Gráda – ‘The New York Irish and their Bank’. Both events are in the Old Museum Building.

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The Inaugural lecture of the 2023/24 Programme will take place on Wednesday 6th September at 6.30pm at the Old Museum Building, Belfast. Professor Emeritus Ronán Conroy - ‘Unravelling Ravel’s Bolero: Neurologists versus Musicologists’ belfastsociety.org/events