Shared Roots: Belfast Women’s History & Heritage Walking Tours

October – November 2026 | Belfast

Discover Belfast through the stories of the remarkable women, communities and movements that helped shape the city.

Join us for a series of free guided walking tours exploring Belfast’s hidden histories, from pioneering suffragists and revolutionary women to mill workers, peace campaigners and everyday lives often overlooked in traditional accounts of the past.

Led by local guide and storyteller Emma Casey, our women’s history tours offer a fresh perspective on familiar streets, uncovering stories of courage, resilience and social change. The programme also includes a guided exploration of the Forth Meadow Community Greenway, connecting local heritage, landscape and community.

Think you know Belfast? You haven’t heard her side of the story!

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Monday 26 October | 11.30am – 1.30pm
Belfast City Centre

Discover the extraordinary women who challenged expectations and made their mark on Belfast’s history. From pioneering inventors and boxing promoters to courageous performers during the Belfast Blitz, this fascinating walking tour celebrates the women whose remarkable stories deserve to be told.

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Millies & Militants: Women of Belfast

Tuesday 27 October | 11.30am – 1.30pm
Belfast City Centre

Explore the stories of Belfast’s working women, trade unionists, political pioneers and peace campaigners. Discover the women who challenged powerful industries, fought for representation and helped shape the city’s social and political history through courage, determination and collective action.

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Brothels, Babies & Old Belfast

Monday 9 November | 11.30am – 1.30pm
Cathedral Quarter, Belfast

Step into the streets of Old Belfast and uncover the fascinating, surprising and sometimes scandalous stories of the women who lived and worked there.

From the city’s first maternity hospital to female writers, poets and unusual social traditions, this guided walk reveals a different side of Belfast’s historic Cathedral Quarter.

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Highlights of Belfast: Women’s History Walking Tour

Saturday 14 November | 11.30am – 1.30pm
Belfast City Centre

See Belfast through a different lens on this relaxed guided walk exploring the women and communities who shaped the city.

Discover fascinating stories of social and cultural change, visit significant historic locations and uncover the often-overlooked contributions of women to Belfast’s rich heritage.

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Exploring the Forth Meadow Community Greenway

Thursday 26 November | 11.30am – 1.30pm
Meeting Point: Springfield Dam

Discover the Forth Meadow Community Greenway on a guided walk exploring local heritage, landscape and the connections between Belfast’s communities.

Enjoy an opportunity to experience this shared green space, discover more about the surrounding area and reflect on the places and stories that connect us.

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Winifred Carney: Beyond the Revolutionary Portrait

Saturday 28 November | 11.30am – 1.30pm
Belfast City Centre

Discover the remarkable life of Winifred Carney, one of Belfast’s most fascinating and influential women.

Often remembered as the ‘typist with the Webley’, Carney was also a trade unionist, suffragist, revolutionary and lifelong champion of working-class women.

Follow in her footsteps through Belfast and uncover her journey from the labour movement to the 1916 Rising and her later campaigning for workers’ rightsThis tour reveals the woman behind the familiar revolutionary portrait and the extraordinary life that made her so much more. Think you know Winifred Carney? You haven’t heard her side of the story!

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Join us as we uncover the hidden histories, remarkable people and shared stories that have shaped Belfast.

Shared Roots is part of the From Multiculturalism to Interculturalism led by ArtsEkta, Kabosh and Cairde na Cille under the Belfast Local Community Action Plan, supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body.