Mountjoy Post Office
This building was moved to the Ulster American Folk Park from nearby Mountjoy village, where it had served as a Post Office and dwelling house from 1861 until the early 1900s.In 1862, the house was listed under the Post Towns in Ireland as Mountjoy Post Office, ninety-nine miles from Dublin. Like...

Patchwork Quilts
The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum has a comprehensive collection of patchwork and quilted bedcovers, dating from 1790 to the mid-1990s. This definitive collection of Irish quilts includes examples of all the main patchwork techniques and styles, from the elaborate chintz appliques of the early...

Pawn Shop, Glenarm
The Ulster American Folk Park’s pawnbroker shopfront came from Toberwine Street, Glenarm, County Antrim. This attractive little shopfront was typical of small provincial shops in Ulster in the late 1800s. The style is repeated time after time in town scenes captured by the Lawrence photogra...

Penal Crosses
The story of the crucifixion has inspired the imagination of artists for generations and in Ireland during the 18th century it found expression in wooden carved crosses.These 'penal' crosses take their name from a series of laws passed to suppress the Catholic population. It restricted the types ...

Pennsylvania House
The Pennsylvania Farmhouse is an exact replica of the six-room dwelling lived in by Thomas Mellon and his family.The original house still stands to this day in the town of Export, Pennsylvania.This log farmhouse is typical of those constructed by permanent settlers in the New World.The technique ...

Peter the Polar bear
Peter the Polar Bear is one of the Ulster Museum's most popular exhibits and is on display in the Window on Our World (Nature Zone).  When he died in August 1972 he was presented to the Ulster Museum by Belfast Zoo.He was carefully prepared and mounted for display by the museum’s ...

Picture House
The silent cinema came from the linen mill village of Gilford, Co Down.It operated from 1909 up to the late 1931 and the cinema was known locally as the Picture House. Its’ premises were housed in an old hay loft, in the upper floor of an old two storey outhouse; part of a group of out...

Polished Stone Axe
The polished stone axe is one of the most well know objects from the Neolithic period (c.4500-2500BC) when it was necessary to devise a tool to clear the forest of trees so that crops could be planted and animals enclosed within fields. There has always been a great antiquarian interest in coll...

Potty about Pots
The Museum has a very good collection of prehistoric pots. The ability to 'fire' clay and make a pot was a skill first learned in the Neolithic period (about 4000BC).  These were made from coils of clay rather than using a potter's wheel.  As well as using pots for cooking, they were of...

Railway disaster
On 12th June1889, 89 people died and hundreds were injured in Ireland’s worst railway disaster (get closer by clicking the images). That morning almost 1200 people crammed into 13 carriages at Armagh Station - about 400 more passengers than expected. At 10.15am, the train departed for ...