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Quintin Oliver @quintinoliver.bsky.social · 21h

Look - it’s right next to the chapel!
And bears a similar cross - did Carnegie know, I wonder?

Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 22h

Tiniest in our series #18 of #IrishCarnegies - in Garriston near Dublin 66 in Ireland.

A priest asked Carnegie’s permission to place the library on church land. Declined.
it was built there by 1906, same land, same stone even - looks like a church outbuilding. But it’s still a free public library!

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 4d

Really positive listing, ironically, of endangered crafts - searching for new specialists! @heritagecrafts.bsky.social
@quintinoliver.bsky.social spoke for us!

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 5d

Fascinating event yesterday at @themacbelfast.bsky.social by @heritagecrafts.bsky.social on skills, techniques and heritage outcomes!

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 8d

Spectacular edifice - beautiful location, superb content, lovely gardens

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Quintin Oliver @quintinoliver.bsky.social · 6d

Loving this art cube in The Hague - where could we locate one?

For whom? With what? By when? How?

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 10d

Our beautiful sandstone Belfast Coat of Arms ‘Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus’ over our front door, and the colourful City Hall carpet version!

Who knows the heraldic features?

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Quintin Oliver @quintinoliver.bsky.social · 7d

Set in beautiful city centre gardens - great for staff and visitors

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 7d

Beautiful modern extension with superb library in Andrew Carnegie’s Peace Palace in The Hague!
@library.cmu.edu

Carnegie’s timing was unfortunate in his efforts to prevent WWl - but the spectacular building remains a powerful legacy now occupied by @icjp.bsky.social

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 8d

Spectacular edifice - beautiful location, superb content, lovely gardens

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 9d

The fabulous @peacepalace.bsky.social in The Hague that Andrew Carnegie gifted to try to prevent WWl - now used by @icjp.bsky.social

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 9d

Getting close!

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Quintin Oliver @quintinoliver.bsky.social · 10d

Both beautiful in their different ways!

Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 10d

Our beautiful sandstone Belfast Coat of Arms ‘Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus’ over our front door, and the colourful City Hall carpet version!

Who knows the heraldic features?

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 10d

We’re off to The Hague to see the Carnegie Peace Palace which Andrew Carnegie endowed in an effort to prevent WWl
@carnegieendowment.org
@carnegiemec.bsky.social

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 10d

Our beautiful sandstone Belfast Coat of Arms ‘Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus’ over our front door, and the colourful City Hall carpet version!

Who knows the heraldic features?

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 14d

This work was facilitated by our #greatplacenorthbelfast cluster of heritage assets across north Belfast!

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 14d

Before and after, then and now!

Carnegie Oldpark Library a century ago, and today with our new night floodlighting

Shines a light on heritage (literally!).

#BackToLife

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 15d

Tell us your story!

Our Carnegie counterpart in Manchester the @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social boasts Sir Norman Foster as a child borrower - who passed through our doors?

Let us know how it affected you! Memories? Change…

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 18d

We went to Dromore Linen Festival - lots of learning for our proposed Carnegie Centre for Weaving!

Flax, retting, scutching, spinning, weaving; every aspect of linen production.

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Quintin Oliver @quintinoliver.bsky.social · 16d

I used to work there at @stratagemni.bsky.social now called @connectparanormal.bsky.social

Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 16d

The elegant Carnegie Library on Donegall Road - one of three in Belfast (Falls Road, still a library, and ours in the third sector).
This one in private hands, let out as offices.
Carnegie liked hills - I want people to walk up to the enlightenment.
It’s still called ‘Library Hill’!

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 16d

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 16d

The elegant Carnegie Library on Donegall Road - one of three in Belfast (Falls Road, still a library, and ours in the third sector).
This one in private hands, let out as offices.
Carnegie liked hills - I want people to walk up to the enlightenment.
It’s still called ‘Library Hill’!

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 17d

Always a joy to visit Clifton House Belfast to share and learn #GreatPlaceNorthBelfast

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 17d

D’oh… haven’t we known this since even before Andrew Carnegie gifted 2,500 free public libraries to the world!

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Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social · 18d

We went to Dromore Linen Festival - lots of learning for our proposed Carnegie Centre for Weaving!

Flax, retting, scutching, spinning, weaving; every aspect of linen production.

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