Historic Entries

Starting at the Albert Clock, this tour explores six historic entries off High Street that date back to the 17th century.

This features the iconic street art on show and the impact made on the city of Belfast by the Joy and McCracken families.

Total length is 500 metres.

Belfast’s drive toward emancipation, equality of rights for “Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter” began in the latter half of the 18th Century with the United Irishmen. The story continues with the philanthropy of women such as Martha McTier and Mary Ann McCracken. The abolition of slavery was one of the movement’s fundamental aims. The speeches of Frederick Douglass in Belfast in 1849 would have encouraged Mary Ann McCracken’s zeal..

This tour covers flat ground and is 1km in length. It lasts for 2½ hours and starts at the front gates of the City Hall.