Elegant Carnegie Library on Belfast's Oldpark Road. Join us in its renovation and rejuvenation!
I knew little about steel magnate and latterly philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, when I was looking for an office for a business I was setting up in 1998, after Belfast’s Good Friday Agreement and the new Assembly created an opportunity for a political lobbying consultancy. A friend alerted me and my partner Fiona to an old …
Continue reading "Why did I buy a library? Co-owner Quintin Oliver explains all"
Three months ago, if someone had predicted that I would be the interim chair of the Carnegie Oldpark Library trustees in North Belfast, I would have riposted ‘unlikely’; if they had then explained that the purpose of the trust would involve a #BackToLife endeavour, reimagining an abandoned Carnegie Library as a centre for celebrating the …
