“In a Blue Velvet Dress”: The Inspiration behind an Irish Ghost Story
caroline2018-05-14T09:48:21+00:00Inscribed copy of the original 1973 edition of 'In a Blue Velvet Dress' On Friday 11th May Clifton House hosted a special 'Plots and Plotters' tour of Clifton House and Clifton Street Cemetery, looking at the radicals of Belfast in the late 1700s, in association with the Linen Hall Library to mark their 230th anniversary. Prior to the tour commencing Monica Cash, deputy librarian, presented Clifton House with a book with a rather usual connection to what was then the Belfast Poor House. Martin Waddell, who has written under the pseudonym Catherine Sefton, had asked the library to donate an [...]