Qualla: Lisburn https://qualla.com/lisburn en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Lisburn https://qualla.com/lisburn Lisburn: Introduction https://qualla.com/lisburn/ Ex igne resurgam, Lisburn's motto reads. Out of the fire I shall arise. The town has had reason to choose those words. An accidental conflagration in 1707 destroyed most of Lisburn, sparing only a few buildings - the Friends' Meeting House among them. The cathedral that Charles II had designated in 1662 was rebuilt around its surviving tower; the distinctive octagonal spire was not added until 1804. The Manor House was never restored. And yet the town that rose from those 1707 ashes became the engine of Ireland's linen industry, drawing Huguenot refugees, Scottish flax workers, and English merchants into a single industrial story that ran for two and a half centuries.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/w/lisburn-wp/gcew-lisburn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lisburn: The Conways and the Welsh Knight https://qualla.com/lisburn/ In 1609, King James I granted Sir Fulke Conway, a Welshman of Norman descent, the lands of Killultagh in southwest County Antrim. By 1611, George Carew was reporting that Conway had built a fine timber house and a bridge across the Lagan and was planning a fortified bawn at a pla...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/w/lisburn-wp/gcew-lisburn-the-conways-and-the-welsh-knight.mp3 0:06 2 full Lisburn: The Huguenots and the Looms https://qualla.com/lisburn/ Linen had been brought to Ireland by Scots, but it was the arrival of Huguenot refugees in 1698 that turned Lisburn into the industry's capital. Driven from France by religious persecution, they brought sophisticated weaving techniques and government support. The Crown gave Louis...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/w/lisburn-wp/gcew-lisburn-the-huguenots-and-the-looms.mp3 0:06 3 full Lisburn: The Burnings of 1920 https://qualla.com/lisburn/ On 22 August 1920, as worshippers left Sunday service at Lisburn Cathedral, the IRA assassinated RIC Inspector Oswald Swanzy in Market Square. Swanzy had been named at a Cork inquest as responsible for the killing of Tomás Mac Curtain, the city's republican Lord Mayor. Over the n...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/w/lisburn-wp/gcew-lisburn-the-burnings-of-1920.mp3 0:06 4 full Lisburn: Linen Decline, City Status https://qualla.com/lisburn/ Through the twentieth century the linen industry slid into long decline. New synthetic textiles, changing fashion, and global competition reduced what had been the engine of the town. The Hilden mill that the Barbours built closed in 2006 with a workforce of just eighty-five, dow...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/w/lisburn-wp/gcew-lisburn-linen-decline-city-status.mp3 0:06 5 full Lisburn: Thiepval and the Twenty-First Century https://qualla.com/lisburn/ First built in 1940 and named after a Somme battlefield where the Ulster Division suffered its heaviest losses in 1916, Thiepval Barracks remains the British Army's Northern Ireland headquarters and home to 38 Irish Brigade. Two IRA car bombs killed a soldier and injured 31 insid...

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