Carnegie Oldpark

Carnegie Oldpark Carnegie Oldpark Library, Belfast, Northern Ireland - now being restored and licenced for community use. Tell us what you would like to see in it!

Carnegie Oldpark is one of the over 2,500 libraries, that Andrew Carnegie gifted, over a century ago, across the English-speaking world. Abandoned by the public sector nearly a decade ago, Carnegie Oldpark stands as a beacon of hope for the new Belfast. We want to bring this superb example of Tudorbethan architecture back to life, for community use. We want the local people back to this building

and fill it with enterprise, education and training, poetry and song - it will buzz with the voices of the local community.

Great bunch of visitors from and The Seamus Heaney Centre to explore our Weaving Centre and plan exciting collaborati...
12/06/2026

Great bunch of visitors from and The Seamus Heaney Centre to explore our Weaving Centre and plan exciting collaborations!

Great bunch of visitors from and to explore our Weaving Centre and plan exciting collaborations!Seamus Heaney Centre...
12/06/2026

Great bunch of visitors from and to explore our Weaving Centre and plan exciting collaborations!

Seamus Heaney Centre Belfast.
Inspiring Young Artists
Queen's University Belfast

Join us for a history talk with Historian Sara Drybis McQuaid, Associate Professor , Aarhus University, Denmark. Next Th...
11/06/2026

Join us for a history talk with Historian Sara Drybis McQuaid, Associate Professor , Aarhus University, Denmark. Next Thursday 18th June at 18:30
Drawing on research into Belfast’s Carnegie Oldpark Library, closed in 2010, this talk traces a different history of Northern Ireland’s peace process.
One where librarians and library users replace political leaders and armed actors as main characters, while the politics of peace unfolds through regeneration policy, service provision and municipal bargaining rather than international diplomacy. Where memories of conflict transformation crystallise around a shared social infrastructure and the autonomy of getting your first library card, rather than culture wars and political stalemates.
From this perspective, we ask:
- What has been lost in transition?
- What possibilities for collective life can be imagined and reconstructed from the forgotten histories of everyday peacebuilding?
























With Historian Sara Drybis McQuaid Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark

Drawing on research into Belfast’s Carnegie Oldpark Library, closed in 2010, this talk traces a different history of Northern Ireland’s peace process.

One where librarians and library users replace political leaders and armed actors as main characters, while the politics of peace unfolds through regeneration policy, service provision and municipal bargaining rather than international diplomacy. Where memories of conflict transformation crystallise around a shared social infrastructure and the autonomy of getting your first library card, rather than culture wars and political stalemates.

From this perspective, we ask:

- What has been lost in transition?
- What possibilities for collective life can be imagined and reconstructed from the forgotten histories of everyday peacebuilding?

11/06/2026

We’re giving modern expression to the Carnegie legacy!

07/06/2026

Well done everyone!

Great story, well told by Tony Smith, Ethan Lay, Geraldine Wilkins, Olla Nua, Cat Leigh, Rachel Smith, Dani Larkin and Quintin Oliver

Come join us help bring this fine place !

Two of the wonderful Else Regensteiner weaving text books donated by her Chicago grandson Jesse Sinaiko to Carnegie Oldp...
05/06/2026

Two of the wonderful Else Regensteiner weaving text books donated by her Chicago grandson Jesse Sinaiko to Carnegie Oldpark Library.

Delighted weavers, grateful charity, humble donor - everyone happy!

From Chicago to Oldpark! Our newest donor Jesse Sinaiko gifts his grandmother’s weaving books for our library. Munich-bo...
04/06/2026

From Chicago to Oldpark!
Our newest donor Jesse Sinaiko gifts his grandmother’s weaving books for our library. Munich-born Else Regensteiner (1906-2003) is a guru of the American tradition

Exciting visit to our weavers’ studio - watch this space for further news! in so many ways.
03/06/2026

Exciting visit to our weavers’ studio - watch this space for further news!

in so many ways.

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