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.

Introduction

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.

April 2026

Monday 27 April - Finishing Stitch Your Bit

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
Thursday 21 May - The London Irish and London Pride
Thursday 28 May - Voices from the War Memorial: Witness to the Blitz
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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