This year we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the formation of Lismore Historical Society, Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mòr The Society was formed in 1994 with the help of Beathag Morrison of Comann na Gaidhlig. It was founded by the late Donald Black, the...
Artist Iona MacLeod created an exciting installation in a depopulated croft at Ballimackillichan. As well as creating arresting art, she drew attention to what is not just an historical problem but a very real present one . As the population falls today those who...
Because 2020’s special exhibition could not open until July, it was seen by fewer people. So this year the story is continuing, the story of Lismore life during the second half of the 19th century, a time of such poverty and upheaval, many families left the island...
This year's special exhibition at the museum opened in July as a result of Covid and lockdown. Unfortunately it was seen by fewer people than in other years particularly as it dealt with the middle years of the nineteenth century when the population began its great...
The Museum opened on 1 April 2017, with a large crowd keen to see this year's special exhibition of the work of Elizabeth and Ted Odling, who spent their retirement on the island. Their daughter Noelle introduced them and then artist Alex Gourlay from Appin spoke...
The Heritage Centre opened on 26 March 2016 with a new display, an important talk and an historic visit. The 2016 Special exhibition at the museum isThe Last Post: Remembering World War One on the Island of Lismore (Exhibition for a worked-based dissertation project...
The Heritage Centre will reopen on 29th March 2015 with a photographic exhibition telling the story of women at work on the island through the centuries. If there was work to be done, Lismore's women have always done it and that was as true in earliest times as it is...
From Saturday 1st till Saturday 28 June you will find ‘Shelter’ an exhibition by Colette Walker in the Heritage Library. Colette is an Art Therapist working in East Lothian and she creates using oils acrylics applique and inks, to represent the point between Abstract...
The 2014 season has opened with a well stocked shop, a cafe under new management, and a brand new exhibition in the Museum room. Homecoming Lismore 2014 tells the story of John MacDougall (1803-1888) a , cottar, weaver, churchman and founder of an Emigrant Family,...
Growing up on Lismore, an event at the Heritage Centre , invited islanders of all ages to a party where they could swap their memories, photographs and even talk about their experiences in a real recording studio. it was organised by Caroline Willis, Helen Crossan and...
Gilly B is an artist and illustrator. She studied art in England in the eighties, then raised a family on the island, and now after many years of working only for friends and family or to satisfy her own desire to express, she has been persuaded to open her work up....
29 March 2013 was a beautiful Spring day for the reopening of the Lismore Gaelic Heritage Centre. Visitors started arriving on the early ferries and there was great interest in the special exhibition - “The Lismore Ploughman” - with one of today’s champion vintage...