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A trad session in a busy Belfast bar

A Place to Meet,
Then and Now

The Meeting House is a new pub in one of Belfast’s oldest entries. Across three bars, there’ll be pints, trad music and room for everyone. The history is in the walls, but this is a place to make your own memories too.

A proper Belfast
boozer, open to all.

Portrait of Theobald Wolfe Tone
Portrait of Theobald Wolfe Tone

Centuries of
conversation

People have been gathering in Crown Entry for centuries to talk, debate, exchange ideas and have a few drinks.

In October 1791, Belfast reformers including Theobald Wolfe Tone, Thomas Russell and Samuel Neilson met in this very building, then known as the Crown Tavern.

Debate that
changed history

Wolfe Tone’s journals describe long dinners, late nights and plenty of political debate.

Out of those conversations came the Belfast Society of United Irishmen, founded on the belief that Ireland could have a fairer, more representative parliament and greater political equality across religious divides.

Belfast was alive with ideas inspired by events in America and France.

Books, pamphlets and newspapers carried them further.
Just metres away in Wilson’s Court, Samuel Neilson helped establish The Northern Star in 1792, giving the United Irishmen a voice across Ireland.

The authorities later moved to suppress the movement. Leaders were arrested, meetings went underground and The Northern Star was destroyed in 1797. Rebellion followed a year later.

Embracing the Past
and the Future

More than 230 years on, Crown Entry is still a place to come together. The Meeting House brings the building back to what it has long been: a proper Belfast boozer, open to all. A place for conversation, trad music and a pint, with the stories of the past all around you.