Belfast Literary Society
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Belfast Literary Society
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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 the Trinity-educated minister of Belfast's First Presbyterian congregation and historian, Dr. William Bruce; proprietor of the Belfast News-Letter Henry Joy; and the polymath and "father of Belfast medicine", James McDonnell. The members met "on the first Monday
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