Somme Heritage Centre

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The Somme Heritage Centre is a tourist attraction and education center in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland. Opened in 1994 the centre promotes Ireland's role in the First World War, and especially the role of both Protestant and Catholic, unionist and nationalist in the war. It focuses on three of the volunteer divisions in Ireland;

• 10th (Irish) Division
• 16th (Irish) Division
• 36th (Ulster) Division

[edit] External links

• The Somme Heritage Centre Homepage
• Information and Picture Collection from The Somme Heritage Centre
• Second World War online resource for NI

Museums and Public Galleries in Ireland

The Chester Beatty Library | The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery | Donegal County Museum | Downpatrick & County Down Railway* | Dublin Writers Museum | The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery | The Hunt Museum | The Irish Museum of Modern Art | The Irish Jewish Museum | James Joyce Centre | Kilmainham Gaol | Marsh's Library | The National Gallery of Ireland | The National Museum of Ireland | The National Print Museum of Ireland | The Natural History Museum | National Library of Ireland | National Transport Museum of Ireland | National Wax Museum | Ormeau Baths Gallery* | The Pearse Museum | The Somme Heritage Centre* | Saint Patrick Visitor Centre* | The State Heraldic Museum | The Ulster Folk & Transport Museum* | The Ulster Museum* * indicates Northern Ireland