Belfast Millie Tours

29/05/2026

The events are aimed at those who are strong, fit, enthusiastic, and passionate about protecting the local community.

19/05/2026

And just like that my first born is now 30! Sonas ort Billie and Grma for making me a mammy. Love you to bits baby gurl ❤️

17/05/2026

Day one of Marjorie & Bill’s multi day tour around the North of Ireland. I picked them up in Dublin and headed north to Meath, Ireland’s spiritual heartland where the high kings of Eire were crowned and Newgrange, a 5000 year old tomb that is older than the pyramids.

We then celebrated our Viking heritage at Slane Castle with the extras from the hit series The Vikings. If you are going to tour Ireland you may as well start from the beginning!

12/05/2026

Folks, we will be meeting at the Glenalina gate on Whiterock RD facing Ballymurphy. If you don’t know where this is then be at main gate for 6.45 and someone will direct you. Apologies for the late notice!

12/05/2026

Folks, unfortunately we weren’t able to get main gates left oven a bit later so we are meeting at the Glenalina entrance facing Ballymurphy. If you don’t know where this is then be at the main gates for 6.45 and someone will direct you. Apologies for the late notice but we were hoping that somebody knew somebody who knew somebody knew somebody, turns out nobody knew anybody lol See you all tomorrow

Bígí linn le haghaidh siúlóid treoraithe reilig na cathrach le Lorraine Mills

Join us for the Belfast City Cemetery Tour with Lorraine Mills

7.00pm ⏰

Wednesday 13ú Bealtaine | Tuesday 13th May 🗓️

Bualadh | Meeting: Main Gates 📍

10/05/2026

Come join me on the 13th May at 7pm for a wee dander through the many layers of our history in the Belfast City Cemetery aka The Gravey. This will be the first tour to take place in the cemetery during the evening but it’s when the Gravey comes alive. If you are interested in history or not this is a lovely walk, if you’ve nobody to mind the kids, bring them. Everyone who wants to listen will have an earpiece, those who just want out of the house you are more than welcome. This is a FREE tour provided by Belfast’s fastest growing community festival Feile na gCloigini Gorma (The Bluebell festival)

01/05/2026

This is becoming one of the best community festivals in Belfast and im delighted to be asked to be a part of it. Come and join me for a wee dander around the Gravey. I’ll be talking about industrial Belfast, Suffragettes, Unionists, Nationalists, etc and just basically waffling about everything so come along and join in the craic!

Bígí linn le haghaidh siúlóid treoraithe reilig na cathrach le Lorraine Mills

Join us for the Belfast City Cemetery Tour with Lorraine Mills

7.00pm ⏰

Wednesday 13ú Bealtaine | Tuesday 13th May 🗓️

Bualadh | Meeting: Main Gates 📍

28/04/2026

25/04/2026

Good luck Aontriom 🍀🤞

🔥 Championship time awaits 🔥

Our Senior Ladies begin their Ulster Ladies Gaelic Championship campaign this weekend as they take on Derry in Ballymcguigan.

🟡⚪️ Antrim v Derry Ladies Gaelic Football 🔴⚪️
🗓️ Saturday 25th April
📍 Ballymcguigan
⏰ 4PM

Best of luck to the players and management🟡⚪️

25/04/2026

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The Belfast workhouse was one of 130 workhouses built in Ireland under the Irish Poor Law of 1838. Ireland was split up into sections called 'Unions' based on population size, usually with a town in the centre.
This is where the workhouse would be located.

The Belfast workhouse was a large model workhouse, capable of accommodating 1,000 paupers. It opened on 11 May 1841.
All workhouses were built to the same design by architect George Wilkinson.
It was designed to keep men & women, adults & children completely separate. This is known as an "architecture of deterrence".

The workhouse was managed by a local Board of Guardians who were partly elected by ratepayers and partly appointed due to their standing in the community.
In 1847 the Guardians expanded the workhouse by erecting a Fever Hospital.
This offered free medical care for infectious diseases like typhus, smallpox, dysentery & the dreaded cholera.

By the 20th century, most of the focus of the workhouse was on the medical relief it was providing. In the new Northern Ireland, workhouses either closed or were repurposed into hospitals.
The Belfast workhouse started to be referred to as the city hospital in the 1940s.
In 1948 it official transferred under the National Health Service & became Belfast City Hospital.