Folk Life and Agriculture
Our domestic life collection holds a variety of items that offer a glimpse into everyday life in 19th and early 20th century Ulster. Cradles, pine kitchen dressers, and spinning wheels were once valuable and much-loved items. Religious and cultural pieces embody the hopes and diversions of ordinary people living through extraordinary times.
HOYFM.891.1989
Commemorative Jug
Jug
HOYFM.2015.216
'A bit of old Ireland'
Postcard
HOYFM.2012.245
A Bright and Happy Christmas
Card
HOYFM.2011.17.14
A Christmas of Bright Joy to Thee
Card
HOYFM.2011.17.10
A Christmas Reverie
Card
HOYFM.2011.17.11
A Happy Christmas
Card
HOYFM.DB.1879.24.1
A Happy New Year
postcard
HOYFM.111.1973.37
A Happy New Year
postcard
HOYFM.111.1973.38
A Happy New Year
postcard
HOYFM.2011.17.2
A Happy. Happy Christmas
Card
HOYFM.2012.240
A Jolly New Year to you
Card
HOYFM.2010.52.8
A Merry Christmas
postcard
HOYFM.118.1965
A merry christmas and a happy new year
Mug
HOYFM.2011.17.4
All Christmas Joys be Yours
Card
HOYFM.2022.2.3
Armagh
Shield
HOYFM.38.1979
aud lang syne
Mug, Miniature mug with xmas & new year greetings
HOYFM.2015.313
Auld Lang Syne
postcard
HOYFM.SCH2021.32.11
Baby Jesus
Statue
HOYFM.1428.1993
Burns Centenary 1896
Jug
HOYFM.SCH2021.32.4
Camel
Statue
HOYFM.SCH2016.816
Christmas Candles
Box of Candles
HOYFM.NITB.2592
Christmas Illuminations
Photograph: B&W/ Negative
HOYFM.NITB.2587
Christmas Illuminations Belfast
Photograph: B&W/ Negative
HOYFM.NITB.2589
Christmas Illuminations Belfast
Photograph: B&W/ Negative
HOYFM.NITB.2594
Christmas Tree
Photograph: B&W/ Negative
HOYFM.NITB.3262
Christmas Tree At City Hall
Photograph: B&W/ Negative
HOYFM.2011.17.1
Christmas, with all good wishes for your happiness
Card
HOYFM.NITB.3139
City Hall Floodlit And Christmas Tree
Photograph: B&W/ Negative
HOYFM.660.1972
Crochet lace sampler
Sampler
HOYFM.SCH2021.32.5
Donkey
Statue
HOYFM.NITB.4075
Down (Folk Museum) Cultra Cottier's House
Photograph: B&W/ Print
HOYFM.389.1988C
England and Wales
Jigsaw puzzle
HOYFM.2015.235
'Erin Go Bragh'
Postcard
HOYFM.2022.2.2
Fermanagh
Shield
HOYFM.1354.2000
Girl Selling Whiskey at the Giants Well at the Causeway
Watercolour
HOYFM.2010.52.7
Good Luck Walk Close Beside You
Card
HOYFM.2012.237
Happy May your Christmas be
postcard
HOYFM.2011.17.15
Hearty Christmas Wishes
postcard
HOYFM.2010.52.11
in pleasant recollection
Greeting card, Christmas
HOYFM.DB.2232.6
inglis yuletide
Tin, biscuit
HOYFM.SCH2021.32.9
Joseph
Statue
HOYFM.2010.52.13
Many Good Wishes
Card
HOYFM.SCH2018.4
n/a
Christmas sweet container
HOYFM.SCH2018.5
n/a
Christmas sweet container
HOYFM.231.1985
n/a
Plaited straw mattress (in 2 parts)
HOYFM.SCH2022.58
Nativity Scene
Nativity Set
HOYFM.2015.453
New Year 1908
postcard
HOYFM.WAG.2906
R. LAGAN IN WINTER
Photograph; glass plate negative
HOYFM.2010.52.10
remembrance
Greeting card
HOYFM.DUNDEE.51
Sentry Hill in snow, January 1909
photograph; glass plate negative
HOYFM.SCH2021.32.6
Shepherd
Statue
HOYFM.SCH2021.32.8
Shepherd
Statue