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Exhibitions, talks and events

PRONI event at the John Hewitt Bar, Belfast PRONI exhibtion of documents relating to China Talk in the PRONI lecture room

What's on?

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) regularly organises or participates in talks, events and exhibitions, often in conjunction with other local organisations.  
The ‘Hidden Connections: Ulster and Slavery, 1807-2007’ exhibition to mark the bi-centenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire ran in a number of venues throughout Northern Ireland.  Curated by PRONI and launched in November 2007 in the Linen Hall Library Opens a new browser window., the exhibition drew on documents from PRONI’s archives, artefacts from the Ulster Museum Opens a new browser window. and contemporary books and pamphlets from the Linen Hall Library and elsewhere.  
As part of the PRONI contribution to Archive Awareness Campaign for 2007 based on the theme of ‘Freedom and liberty’, a booklet Ulster and Slavery (4.2MB) Adobe PDF formatted document Opens a new browser window. has been produced.  It includes an extensive appendix listing the references to slavery to be found in the various archives held in PRONI.
You will find details of talks, events and exhibitions, currently running or coming up in the near future, on the Exhibitions talks, events and - what's on? page.

Online exhibitions

PRONI has also produced a number of online exhibitions in recent years, which include digitised images of many PRONI documents.
The following online exhibitions are currently running:

Northern Ireland's Contribution To The Development Of Australia

PRONI produced this online exhibition in association with the Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh.  Launched on St Patrick's Day, 17th March 1999, the exhibition concentrates on the contribution to the growth and development of Australia made by people from the north of Ireland - from convicts to bush-rangers and from famine orphans to gold diggers.

19th Century Emigration to North America

Launched in 1998, PRONI produced this online exhibition in collaboration with the Belfast Telegraph.  It features approximately 55 digitised images - just a few items from the vast array of records relating to emigration in PRONI's holdings - including photographs, emigrant letters, advertisements and guides (to encourage emigration) and even passenger tickets.

PRONI on the Record

This online exhibition gives an indication of the wide range of subjects covered by the archives held by PRONI.