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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 12 August 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Wednesday 12 August 2026\, for a group visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-12-august-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Closure 17 August 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this afternoon\, Monday 17 August 2026\, for a group visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/afternoon-closure-17-august-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 20 August 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Thursday 20 August 2026\, for a group visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-20-august-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Closure 21 August 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this afternoon\, Friday 21 August 2026\, for a Charles Wood Summer School event.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/afternoon-closure-21-august-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260825T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260825T160000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Closure 25 August 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this afternoon\, Tuesday 25 August 2026\, due to staff leave.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/afternoon-closure/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260828T140000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Closure 28 August 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this afternoon\, Friday 28 August 2026\, due to staff leave.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/afternoon-closure-28-august-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260831T235959
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SUMMARY:August Bank Holiday Closure 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed today\, Monday 31 August 2021\, for the August Bank Holiday.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/august-bank-holiday-closure-2026/
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 4 September 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Friday 4 September 2026\, to allow staff to attend the funeral service for Harry Carson\, former Governor and Guardian of the Library\, and a faithful supporter.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-4-september-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 8 September 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Tuesday 8 September 2026\, for a group visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-8-september-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260910T100000
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 10 September 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Thursday 10 September 2026\, for a group visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-10-september-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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SUMMARY:European Heritage Open Days 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library and No 5 will open for European Heritage Open Days 2026 on Saturday 12 September\, and the Library on Sunday 13 September. \n\n\n\nSaturday 12 September \n\n\n\n\nArmagh Robinson Library – 11.00am to 5.00pm\n\n\n\nNo 5 Vicars’ Hill – 11.00am to 5.00pm\n\n\n\nCathedral – 10.00am to 5.00pm\n\n\n\n\nSunday 13 September\n\n\n\n\nArmagh Robinson Library – 2.00pm to 5.00pm\n\n\n\n Due to staff shortages\, we will be unable to open No 5 on Sunday. Our sincerest apologies.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe theme for EHOD this year is ‘Heritage at Risk: Revive\, Resist\, Reimagine’. The buildings open for this annual event will show the traditions and skills applied in their construction. It will also show how the built heritage needs to be protected for the future. More than 500 buildings and venues throughout Northern Ireland will be open for EHOD. In the City of Armagh alone\, 11 buildings will be open\, including churches and museums\, and the Hill of Armagh sits well within those categories. \n\n\n\nThe Library will have on display the 1770 original drawings of the Library building by the architect Thomas Cooley whose work is also known elsewhere in Armagh. Indeed\, the Library’s second building at No 5 Vicars’ Hill is also a Cooley design. From the outside\, No 5 looks like a modest dwelling house\, and visitors are often surprised when they actually enter the building. 18th century craftsmanship is shown off well in both buildings. \n\n\n\n\n\nSt Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral\, Armagh will also be open for EHOD on the Saturday from 10.00am to 5.00pm and will be open for services on Sunday\, but not for EHOD. Visitors may view the architecture and gain that sense of stepping back in time over many centuries on the ancient sacred site that is the Hill of Armagh.The Very Revd Shane Forster\, who is both the Dean of Armagh and Keeper of Armagh Robinson Library and No 5\, said\, “All three buildings on the Hill of Armagh\, which I am a custodian of\, tell the story of how our predecessors lived\, learned and prayed. Yet they are not museums that simply look back to the past but are architectural gems which are still open to the public today\, very much loved and relevant in the current age. Come\, explore and walk in the steps of St Patrick\, High King Brian Boru and Archbishop Richard Robinson.” \n\n\n\nFor more information\, please go to:https://discovernorthernireland.com/european-heritage-open-days/
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/european-heritage-open-days-2026/
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260917T100000
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 17 September 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Thursday 17 September 2026\, due to the quarterly Governors and Guardians meeting taking place in the Long Room.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-library-17-september-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260918T100000
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 18 September 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Friday 18 September 2026\, due to a Morning on the Hill School visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-18-september-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260924T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260924T130000
DTSTAMP:20260918T165916Z
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 24 September 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Thursday 24 September 2026\, for a group visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-24-september-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260928T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260928T130000
DTSTAMP:20260925T092729Z
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 28 September 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Monday 28 September 2026\, for a group visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-28-september-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T140000
DTSTAMP:20260925T093054Z
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 1 October 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Thursday 1 October 2026\, due to a Morning on the Hill School visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-1-october-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261005T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261005T140000
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 5 October 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Monday 5 October 2026\, due to a Morning on the Hill School visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-5-october-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261014T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261014T140000
DTSTAMP:20261013T150327Z
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure 14 October 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Wednesday 14 October 2026\, due to a Morning on the Hill group visit.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-14-october-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261020T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261020T210000
DTSTAMP:20261008T154225Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture | Stories\, Landscape and Folklore
DESCRIPTION:Early Investigations of Ireland in the Armagh Robinson Library Collections\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Library will host a lecture on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland project (VRTI) on Tuesday 20 October 2026 at 7.30pm: Stories\, landscapes and folklore: early investigations of Ireland in Armagh Robinson Library’s collections. \n\n\n\nThe speakers will be Dr Ciaràn Wallace\, Programme Director for the VRTI and Dr Eamon Darcy from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at Maynooth University. \n\n\n\nAdmission free with booking essential via e-mail admin@armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk or phone 028 37523142. \n\n\n\nDr Eamon Darcy led the project\, with funding from the Royal Irish Academy’s Nowlan Digitisation Grant scheme.  \n\n\n\nThe Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland is an all-island and international research partnership hosted by Trinity College Dublin\, working to reconstruct the Public Record Office of Ireland — a magnificent archive destroyed in 1922 at the outset of the Civil War. This is an ever-growing\, open-access resource\, freely and permanently available online to all those interested in Ireland’s deep history\, at home and abroad. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nFour manuscripts from the Library’s collections were digitised through the project and have been made freely available online. The digitisation work was carried out by Michael Heath of Digital Scanning Services\, Armagh. \n\n\n\nThese specific items will be discussed in the lecture: \n\n\n\n\nWalter Harris & the Physico-Historical Society of Ireland\n\n\n\nItinerary of Journey Through the Counties of Dublin\, Meath & Louth\n\n\n\nA Natural History of the Parish of Killasher [Killesher]\n\n\n\nThe History and Antiquities of Dublin\, by James Ware\n\n\n\n\nSpeaking about the project\, the Keeper of the Library\, the Very Revd Shane Forster\, said\,  \n\n\n\n\nOur Governors and Guardians were delighted to give permission for the relevant manuscripts in Armagh Robinson Library to be included in this project. Funded by the Royal Irish Academy\, we believe that this has been a successful collaboration between Armagh Robinson Library\, Maynooth University\, the Royal Irish Academy\, Trinity College Dublin\, and the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland and allows many more people\, through this project\, to have access to and engage with some of the treasures held within our collection.  \n\n\n\n\nTo see all the works from Armagh Robinson Library listed in the VRTI\, visit \n\n\n\nhttps://virtualtreasury.ie/browse/Armagh_Robinson_Library
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/talk-stories-landscape-and-folklore/
LOCATION:Armagh Robinson Library\, 43 Abbey Street\, Armagh\, BT61 7DY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261021T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261021T210000
DTSTAMP:20261014T094007Z
CREATED:20261008T152841Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture | Jonathan Swift: Gulliver Amongst Friends
DESCRIPTION:The Library will host the lecture Gulliver Amongst Friends\, given by Hester Grant\, on Wednesday 21 October 2026 at 7.30pm.  \n\n\n\nThe lecture will be one of the many to be given this autumn to highlight the 300th anniversary of the publication of Jonathan Swift’s work Gulliver’s Travels. \n\n\n\nAdmission is free with advanced booking required via e-mail admin@armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk or phone  028 37523142. \n\n\n\nIn March 1726 Jonathan Swift travelled from Dublin to London with the manuscript of Gulliver’s Travels in his baggage. He spent the summer with his close friends Alexander Pope and John Gay\, at Pope’s villa on the Thames at Twickenham\, wandering through Pope’s beautiful garden and grotto\, boating downriver to visit newly built Marble Hill\, and plotting the clandestine publication of Gulliver’s Travels. \n\n\n\nHester said about her lecture\,  \n\n\n\n\nI will explain how the intensity of the reunion of the three writers\, and stimulation provided by the long-absent Swift\, marked a turning point in the careers of Pope and Gay\, while Gulliver’s Travels received its final amendments. Threaded through this narrative is an account of the writing of Swift’s masterpiece\, and the story of its secret publication (necessary on account of its explosive satire) that involved dropping the manuscript at a publisher’s ‘in the dark from a Hackney-coach’. \n\n\n\n\nCopies of Hester’s publication The Twitnam Summer will be available to buy following the lecture at £25.00. \n\n\n\n\n\nKeeper of Armagh Robinson Library\, the Very Revd Shane Forster\, on Hester’s lecture\,  \n\n\n\n\nThe first edition of Gulliver’s Travels\, with Jonathan Swift’s hand-written annotated notes\, is definitely one of the most famous items in our collection at Armagh Robinson Library. In this significant year for the book\, we are delighted that Hester Grant will be delivering this lecture for us\, opening the door to the relationships\, context and events around the eighteenth-century publication of this very significant piece of literature. \n\n\n\n\nHester Grant is a writer specialising in the eighteenth century. Her first book The Good Sharps\, a biography of a remarkable eighteenth-century family\, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2020. Hester’s second book\, The Twitnam Summer\, published by Harper Collins\, was launched earlier this year to coincide with Gulliver’s Travels special anniversary.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/talk-jonathan-swift-gulliver-amongst-friends/
LOCATION:Armagh Robinson Library\, 43 Abbey Street\, Armagh\, BT61 7DY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261028T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261028T210000
DTSTAMP:20261014T162038Z
CREATED:20260807T094450Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture | Swift and the Vexed Publication of Gulliver’s Travels\, 1726-1735
DESCRIPTION:The lecture Swift and the Vexed Publication of Gulliver’s Travels\, 1726-1735\, will be given on Wednesday 28 October 2026\, by Professor Ian Campbell Ross\, Professor Emeritus Trinity College Dublin. The lecture is part of the series to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the first publication of Gulliver’s Travels. \n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nAdmission is free\, but booking is essential by e-mailing: admin@armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk . \n\n\n\nSupported by Queen’s University Belfast. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIan Campbell Ross\, Emeritus Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Fellow Emeritus in Trinity College Dublin\, has published widely on writers including Laurence Sterne\, Tobias Smollett\, Elizabeth Sheridan\, Oliver Goldsmith and Jonathan Swift. With Stephanie Breen and Aileen Douglas\, he has co-curated the ‘Gulliver at 300’ exhibition in the Long Room\, The Library\, Trinity College Dublin\, which will run until 31 December 2026. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaking ahead of his lecture in Armagh\, Ian said\,  \n\n\n\n\nGulliver’s Travels is among the most famous\, widely-read books in world literature and one that has certainly succeeded\, as Swift intended\, in vexing many of its readers over three centuries. The work now exists in thousands of versions\, from scholarly editions to popular printings\, abridgements\, illustrated editions and translations into many languages\, to children’s books\, comics and film adaptations. The Gulliver’s Travels familiar to today’s readers accordingly varies greatly. It is an irony that the first reader of the Travels to be vexed by the book was none other than Swift himself. This lecture will look at the author’s labyrinthine stratagems to avoid being identified as the author of his dangerously satirical work on first publication in 1726\, and his subsequent efforts over the next decade to see his book in print in a version he could approve. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nIan added the quotation from Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope written on 29 September 2025\, ‘the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than divert it.’ \n\n\n\nCarol Conlin\, Assistant Keeper of Armagh Robinson Library said\,  \n\n\n\n\nThe lecture series is being organised in association with the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. We are most grateful for this support and wish to thank in particular Professor Moyra Haslett\, the Coordinator for the Library’s Memorandum of Understanding with Queen’s University Belfast. We also look forward to the second lecture in the series\, which will be given by Professor Haslett on Thursday 12 November 2026.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/lecture-swift-and-the-vexed-publication-of-gullivers-travels-1726-1735/
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SUMMARY:Halloween Break Closure 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed Thursday 29 October and Friday 30 October 2026 for the Halloween Break.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/halloween-break-closure-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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SUMMARY:Lecture | The Armagh Gulliver
DESCRIPTION:The lecture The Armagh Gulliver\, part of the series to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the first publication of Gulliver’s Travels\, will be given on Thursday 12 November 2026\, by Professor Moira Hazlett (School of Arts\, English and Languages\, Queen’s University Belfast). \n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nAdmission is free\, but booking is essential by e-mailing: admin@armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk .
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/the-armagh-gulliver/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Morning Closure Library 26 November 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Library will be closed this morning\, Thursday 26 November 2026\, due to the quarterly meeting  of the Governors and Guardians.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/morning-closure-library-26-november-2026/
CATEGORIES:Closure
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SUMMARY:Annual Rokeby Lecture | Gulliver's Travels Now
DESCRIPTION:The annual Rokeby lecture is the last lecture in the series to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the first publication of Gulliver’s Travels. \n\n\n\nOn Thursday 26 November 2026\, Brean Hammond: Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature\, University of Nottingham\, will ask: what is the continuing significance of Gulliver’s Travels and indeed of literary satire\, now? \n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nAdmission is free\, but booking is essential by e-mailing: admin@armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk . \n\n\n\nSupported by Queen’s University Belfast. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Swift’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World\, better known as Gulliver’s Travels\, was published in London by Benjamin Motte on 28 October 1726. This edition was a bitter disappointment to Swift both for its carelessness and because it contained altered and omitted passages. An early witness to Swift’s unhappiness is the large-paper copy on permanent display in the Long Room in the Armagh Robinson Library that is believed to have been annotated by Swift himself.  \n\n\n\nIn 1735\, Dublin publisher George Faulkner brought out a new version as part of a complete edition of Swift’s writings that promised to set the text to rights. \n\n\n\nWhere\, then\, is there a more appropriate venue for a lecture on Gulliver’s Travels? But why lecture on it at all? Why\, 300 years later\, are we still reading it? What might it have to say to the reader who picks it up for the first time in 2026? In this year’s Rokeby Lecture\, Brean Hammond asks what is the continuing significance of Gulliver’s Travels and indeed of literary satire\, now? \n\n\n\n\n\nBrean Hammond\n\n\n\nBrean Hammond is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham. Amongst his most significant book publications are Professional Imaginative Writing in England 1670-1740 (Oxford University Clarendon Press\, 1997)\, Double Falsehood (The Arden Shakespeare\, 2010)\, Jonathan Swift (Irish Academic Press\, 2010) and Tragicomedy (Methuen\, 2021).  \n\n\n\nHe has written many articles on Jonathan Swift including\, most recently\, contributions to The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels (CUP\, 2024) and Jonathan Swift in Context (CUP\, 2024).  \n\n\n\nHe also writes prose fiction and theatre pieces. His music-theatre play Master Byrd has been widely performed in England and overseas. In 2026 it can be seen at the Stour Festival and at the Guernsey Music Festival with music provided by the acclaimed ensemble Stile Antico.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/gullivers-travels-now/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Georgian Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION:Armagh Robinson Library & No 5 Vicars’ Hill will be open for the Georgian Festival on Saturday 28th November and Sunday 29th November 2026. \n\n\n\n\nSat 28 November from 12pm to 5pm\n\n\n\nSun 29 November from 2pm to 5pm\n\n\n\n\nAll events are drop in – no booking required – free of charge\, donations welcome. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nLibrary staff and volunteers will be to answer any questions about the Library’s treasures. Both the Library and No 5 Vicars’ Hill will also have Georgian Living History Interpreters present. \n\n\n\nIn the Library\, we will have a caricaturist in the Library on the Saturday afternoon\, and a silhouette cutter on the Sunday afternoon.   \n\n\n\nIn No 5 Vicars’ Hill\, we will have a wax sealing activity on Saturday\, highlighting its early use as a registry.
URL:https://armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/georgian-festival-2026/
CATEGORIES:Event
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