page_title: Belfast Literary Society
hierarchical_section_title: Belfast Literary Society
caption_attribution_description: English: Exchange Rooms Belfast 1841
context_page_description: The Belfast Literary Society was founded in 1801 and survives as the second oldest learned society in Belfast. Its first meeting was held in the long demolished Exchange Rooms in Belfast on 23 October. Among the 12 founding members were Rev. William Hamilton Drummond, Dr. William Bruce, Henry Joy, John Templeton, S.M. Stephenson, S.S. Thompson and James McDonnell.
context_section_description: The Belfast Literary Society was founded in 1801 and survives as the second oldest learned society in Belfast (the Belfast Reading Society, now the Linen Hall Library, predates it by just over a decade).  Its first meeting was held in the long demolished Exchange Rooms in Belfast on 23 October.  Among the 12 founding members were Rev. William Hamilton Drummond, Dr. William Bruce, Henry Joy, John Templeton, S.M. Stephenson, S.S. Thompson and James McDonnell.
caption: The Exchange Rooms in 1841
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