Talks and events at PRONI

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) located in the Titanic Quarter in Belfast, hosts free talks and events on themes that include local and family history/ genealogy. All welcome.

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To find out more information of forthcoming talks, events and new resources you can subscribe to PRONI’s monthly eNewsletter, the PRONI Express and visit our Eventbrite Page.

To find out more details about an event or book a place, visit the relevant event page below.

February 2026

Saturday 7 February - Collection Day at PRONI
Thursday 12 February - Conference on the Ulster Plantation
Tuesday 17 February - Wrens, WAAF and wardens: women during the war
Wednesday 18 February - HERoNI Lecture Series - Ruin to Revival
Thursday 19 February - Getting Started at PRONI Workshop

March 2026

Thursday 5 March - Transport Number Four - Vienna 1941
Wednesday 11 March - HERoNI Lecture Series - Nutts Corner in War and Peace 1941-1963
Thursday 12 March - The NI Wartime Diaries held in the Mass Observation Archive
Thursday 19 March - Getting Started at PRONI Workshop
Monday 23 March - The Transformation of the US Presidency in the 20th Century
Thursday 26 March - Roof Over Northern Ireland
Friday 27 March - DNA Stories Day

April 2026

Friday 3 April - Shadows of Light: Victorian Photography Archives in PRONI
Wednesday 15 April - HERoNI Lecture Series - Hidden in plain sight? Mapping medieval urban landscapes in Ireland
Friday 17 April - German Air Raids: Belfast Civil Defence Services fatalities

May 2026

Thursday 7 May - German Air Raids: Destroyed Churches and Lost War Memorials
Wednesday 20 May - HERoNI Lecture Series - The Workhouse Fever Hospital in the North of Ireland
Friday 29 May - House Stark in the Second World War

June 2026

Wednesday 17 June - HERoNI Lecture Series - An archaeology of the coarse earthenware industry in Ulster

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