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Lisburn Museum Podcast

Lisburn Museum Podcast

Written by: Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum
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 Official podcast of the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum. Join us as we sit down for a chat with historians, journalists, authors, and other guests to discuss their research, career, and love of museums.Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum World
Episodes
  • Raising a Belgian Army in Ulster, with Scott Edgar

    Raising a Belgian Army in Ulster, with Scott Edgar
    Jan 30 2026

    Scott Edgar of WartimeNI returns to the podcast. This time,he sits down with our Research Officer, Dr James Frazer, to discuss one of thelesser-known groups that were stationed in Northern Ireland during the SecondWorld War – Belgian soldiers.
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    14 mins
  • Ulster townlands in the seventeenth-century sources, with Andrew Kane

    Ulster townlands in the seventeenth-century sources, with Andrew Kane
    Jan 30 2026

    What is a townland? What was their purpose? Why do theymatter? Find out as our Research Officer, Dr James Frazer, talks to Andrew Kane. A research consultant for the Ulster Historical Foundation, Andrew is an expert on Ulster’s townlands, having mapped all 16,000 in his book, ‘Thetownland atlas of Ulster’.
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    13 mins
  • The Belfast Boys and the Yangtze Incident, with Andrew Bannister and Raymond McCullough

    The Belfast Boys and the Yangtze Incident, with Andrew Bannister and Raymond McCullough
    Jan 30 2026

    Our Research Officer, Dr James Frazer, chats to Andrew Bannister and Raymond McCullough. From different sides of Northern Ireland’s religious divide, they were brought together by a mission to honour the memory of their fathers and other crew of HMS Amethyst. This is the gripping story of two young men from Belfast that inspired the 1957 British war film, ‘Yangtse Incident’.
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    22 mins
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