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the purchase of the Linen Hall site by the Corporation, 

 the library has been removed to a spacious building close 

 by. Among its literary treasures it contains the Gibson 

 Collection of Burns and Burnsiana, a unique collection 

 of over one thousand volumes. 



Working Men's Institute and Temperance Hall, 

 a commodious building at the corner of Castle Street and 

 Queen Street; contains a news-room, an amusement-room 

 and library, and also a laru,e lecture and concert hall. The 

 institute was founded in 1873, and was inaugurated by Lord 

 Dufferin. Science and technical classes, under the auspices 

 of the Corporation, are held here. 



The Young Men's Christian Association, Wellington 

 Place, possess a splendidly-equipped building, with class- 

 rooms, gymnasiums, and lecture halls, with appointments 

 of the most complete kind in every way, capable of doing 

 excellent work. 



The Belfast Art Society, established in 1880, has a 

 suite of rooms at 49, Queen Street, and holds its annual 

 exhibitions in the galleries of the Public Library in the 

 autumn of each year. 



Music. — There are several musical societies, the principal 

 of which are the Philharmonic Society, Belfast City 

 Choral Society, the Ladies' Cecilian Choir, Dr. Price's 

 Male Choir, etc. 



There are also societies devoted to literary, medical, and 

 scientific subjects, which it is needless to enumerate. 



