Lisburn

The town was originally known as Lisnagarvy (also spelt Lisnagarvey or Lisnagarvagh) after the townland in which it formed. This is derived {{etymology|ga|Lios na gCearrbhach|ringfort of the gamesters/gamblers}}.{{cite web|title=Lisburn, County Down|url=http://www.placenamesni.org/resultdetails.php?entry=16190|publisher=Place Names NI|access-date=6 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406201801/http://www.placenamesni.org/resultdetails.php?entry=16190|archive-date=6 April 2017|url-status=live}}

In the records, the name Lisburn appears to supersede Lisnagarvey around 1662.{{cite web|url=http://www.lisburn.com/books/lisburn_cathedral/cathedral-1.htm|title=Lisburn Cathedral – Lisburn.com|first=W. P.|last=Carmody|access-date=29 July 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120526003612/http://www.lisburn.com/books/lisburn_cathedral/cathedral-1.htm|archive-date=26 May 2012|url-status=live}} One theory is that it comes from the Irish lios ('ringfort') and the Scots burn ('stream'). Some speculate that -burn refers to the burning of the town during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, but there is evidence of earlier use. An English soldier later recalled the rebels having entered the town of Lisnagarvy at "a place called Louzy Barne". In the town's early days, there were possibly two ringforts: Lisnagarvy to the north and Lisburn to the south, and the latter may simply have been easier for the English settlers to pronounce.

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Lisburn's original site was a fort located north of modern-day Wallace Park.{{Cite web |url=http://www.lisburnmuseum.com/collections/origins-name-lisburn-lios-na-gcearrbhach-lisnagarvey-mean/ |title=The origins of the name Lisburn - Irish Linen Centre | |access-date=23 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123204028/http://www.lisburnmuseum.com/collections/origins-name-lisburn-lios-na-gcearrbhach-lisnagarvey-mean/ |archive-date=23 November 2016 |url-status=live }} In 1609 James I granted Sir Fulke Conway, a Welshman of Norman descent,{{cite web|url=http://www.lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/linen_and_the_lambeg_drum.htm|title=Land of Linen and the Lambeg Drum – Lisburn.com|publisher=James & Darryl Collins|access-date=23 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704050122/http://www.lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/linen_and_the_lambeg_drum.htm|archive-date=4 July 2010|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.lisburn.com/books/glenavy_past_present/glenavy_past-1.html|title=Glenavy Past and Present – Lisburn.com|publisher=James & Darryl Collins|access-date=23 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517153212/http://www.lisburn.com/books/Glenavy_past_present/glenavy_past-1.html|archive-date=17 May 2011|url-status=live}} the lands of Killultagh in southwest County Antrim.

In 1611 George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes remarked: "In our travel from Dromore towards Knockfargus, we saw in Kellultagh upon Sir Fulke Conway’s lands a house of cagework in hand and almost finished, where he intends to erect a bawn of brick in a place called Lisnagarvagh. He has built a fair timber bridge over the river of Lagan near the house."{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/40491941|title=Carew's report on the Voluntary Works in Ulster, 1611|first=Ian|last=Montgomery|date=1 January 2019|journal=Directory of Irish Family History Research|access-date=27 January 2022}} In 1622 the first impressions of Sir Fulke's brother and heir, Edward Conway, was of "a curious place ... Greater storms are not in any place nor greater serenities: foul ways, boggy ground, pleasant fields, water brooks, rivers full of fish, full of game, the people in their attire, language, fashion: barbarous. In their entertainment free and noble."{{Cite web|last=Craig|first=W. I.|date=1960|title=Presbyterianism in Lisburn from the Seventeenth Century|url=http://lisburn.com/books/presbyterianism_lisburn/presbyterian1.htm#CHAPTER%204|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-09|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=17 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117084704/http://www.lisburn.com/books/presbyterianism_lisburn/presbyterian1.htm#CHAPTER%204}}

Management of the Conways' Irish estate fell largely to George Rawdon, a Yorkshire man, who laid out the streets of Lisburn as they are today: Market Square, Bridge Street, Castle Street and Bow Street. He had a manor house built on what is now Castle Gardens, and in 1623, a church on the site of the current cathedral. In 1628, King Charles I granted a charter for a weekly market, which is still held in the town every Tuesday.{{cite book|last=Hanna|first=John|url=http://www.stenlake.co.uk/books/view_book.php?ref=283|title=Old Lisburn|publisher=Stenlake Publishing|year=2002|isbn=978-1-84033-227-8|location=Catrine, Ayrshire|page=3|access-date=26 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029211836/http://www.stenlake.co.uk/books/view_book.php?ref=283|archive-date=29 October 2013|url-status=live}} To populate the town, Rawdon, hostile to the Presbyterian Scots already moving into the area, brought over English and Welsh settlers.{{cite web|url=http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/george_radwon_and_lisburn.html|title=George Rawdon and Lisburn|first=George|last= McBratney|publisher=Lisburn.com|access-date=21 November 2022}}

In 1641 the Irish, rising in the first instance against English, and not Scottish, settlers,{{Cite book|last=Stevenson|first=David|title=Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confderates|publisher=Ulster Historical Foundation|year=1981|isbn=9781903688465|location=Belfast|pages=83–85}} were driven back three times from the town. A herd four hundred head of cattle driven against the gates failed to batter them down. The town nonetheless burned.{{cite book|last1=Bardon|first1=Jonathan|title=A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes|date=2008|publisher=Gill & Macmillan|isbn=9780717146499|location=Dublin|pages=190}} In 1649 the town was secured by forces loyal to Cromwell's English Commonwealth, routing an army of Scots Covenanters, and their Royalist allies, in the Battle of Lisnagarvey.{{cite book |last1=Bennett |first1=Martyn |title=The Civil Wars Experienced: Britain and Ireland, 1638-1661 |date=1999 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0415159029|pages=161–162}}

The Presbyterians, despite their loyalty to the Crown, upon its Restoration continued to be penalised as "dissenters" from the established Anglican church, the Church of Ireland. It was not until 1670 that they were permitted a meeting house in town, and that had to be of "perishable materials [...] dark, narrow and devoid of any pretensions to art and comfort. Their support for King William (whose forces wintered in the town) and the "Protestant cause" in 1690 likewise failed to win them equal standing. Like the Roman Catholics, who had to wait another 60 years for a "Mass House", Presbyterians were discouraged from exerting their presence. The First Presbyterian Church built in 1768 was screened (until 1970) from Market Square by shops.{{Cite web|title=First Lisburn Presbyterian Church Lisburn {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/first-lisburn-presbyterian.html|access-date=2021-05-09|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510142414/http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/first-lisburn-presbyterian.html|url-status=live}}

The town was destroyed once again in 1707: the accidental conflagration giving rise to the town's motto Ex igne resurgam --"Out of the fire I shall arise". Conway's Manor House was not restored (part of the surrounding wall and its gateway with the date 1677 engraved still stands on the south and east side of Castle Gardens). The Anglican church, designated by Charles II as Christ Church Cathedral in 1662, was rebuilt retaining the tower and the surviving galleries in the nave. The distinctive octagonal spire was added in 1804.{{cite web|url = http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/lisburn-cathedral.html| title = Lisburn Cathedral|publisher=Lisburn.com|accessdate = 21 November 2022}}

One of the few buildings spared in the fire of 1707 was the Friend's Meeting House. Quakerism had been brought to the town in 1655 by a veteran of Cromwell's army, William Edmundson. In 1766, a prosperous linen merchant, John Hancock, endowed what is now the grammar school known as Friends' School Lisburn.{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.lisburnquakers.org/what-we-do|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Lisburn Quakers|language=en-US|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510001950/https://www.lisburnquakers.org/what-we-do|url-status=live}}

John Wesley first visited Lisburn in 1756, and thereafter he returned to preach biannually until 1789. The first Wesleyan Methodist Preaching House was established in the town in 1772.{{Cite web|title=Wesley's links with Lisburn are strong {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/history/memories/memories-2004/wesleys-links_with_lisburn.html|access-date=2021-06-06|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=24 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024122837/http://lisburn.com/history/memories/memories-2004/wesleys-links_with_lisburn.html|url-status=live}}

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Lisburn prides itself as the birthplace of Ireland's linen industry. While production had been introduced by the Scots, the arrival in 1698 of Huguenot refugees from France brought more sophisticated techniques, and government support.{{Cite book|last=Bardon|first=Jonathon Bardon|title=The Plantation of Ulster|publisher=Gill & Macmillan|year=2011|isbn=9780717147380|location=Dublin|pages=322}} Even as it raised duties on Ireland's successful woollen trade (with the concurrence of the subordinate Irish Parliament),{{Cite web|title=Restrictions on Irish Trade and Manufacture – Concise History of Ireland|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/JoyceHistory/Restrictions.php|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Libraryireland.com|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510092534/https://www.libraryireland.com/JoyceHistory/Restrictions.php|url-status=live}} the English Parliament removed them on all Irish articles of hemp and flax, and the government gave Louis Crommelin, "overseer of the royal linen manufacture of Ireland", money to promote their production.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Crommelin, Samuel-Louis|volume=13}}

The Huguenot retained their own place of worship, the "French Church" in Castle Street, until 1820. The last of its pastors, Saumarez Dubourdieu, was 56 years Master of the Classical School of the Bow Street. His students subscribed to his memorial and bust on the south interior of the cathedral.{{Cite web|title=Saumarez Dubourdieu|url=https://huguenotsinireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Who-Was-Saumarez-Dubourdieu.pdf|access-date=15 May 2021|website=huguenotsireland.com}}

Large scale manufacture began in 1764 when William Coulson established his first linen looms close by is now the Union Bridge. His mill supplied damask to the royal courts of Europe and, in the early nineteenth century, was to draw celebrity visitors, among them Grand Duke Michael of Russia, Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden, Louis Napoléon Lannes duc de Montebello, the Duke of Wellington and Lord John Russell.{{Cite book|last=Bayly|first=Henry|url=http://www.lisburn.com/books/history_of_lisburn/topographical_and_historical.htm|title=Topographical and Historical Account of Lisburn|year=1834|location=T Mairs|access-date=24 September 2021|archive-date=26 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026193929/http://lisburn.com/books/history_of_lisburn/topographical_and_historical.htm|url-status=live}}

To carry the town's new trade, construction of the Belfast-Lisburn section of the Lagan Canal began in 1756. Despite problems of low water levels during the summer, the canal (extended in 1794 to Lough Neagh) continued to carry bulk cargoes until 1958.{{Cite web|title=The History Of Lisburn {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/history_of_lisburn.htm|access-date=2021-05-06|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506193509/http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/history_of_lisburn.htm|url-status=live}}

In 1784, the Scotsman John Barbour began spinning linen thread, and in 1831 his son William moved production to what had originally been Crommelin's bleach green at Hilden. By the end of the century Barbour's Linen Thread Company was the largest mill of its kind in the world employing about 2000 people to work 30,000 spindles and 8,000 twisting machines. The company had built a model village for the workers, with 350 houses, two schools, a community hall, children's playground and a village sports ground.{{Cite web|last=McCreary|first=Mark|date=2017-05-03|title=Haunting movie and gallery show immense Hilden factory left to decay|url=http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/health/ruin-mill-haunting-movie-gallery-12977651|access-date=2021-05-06|website=BelfastLive|language=en|archive-date=7 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507033523/https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/health/ruin-mill-haunting-movie-gallery-12977651|url-status=live}}

File:The Lisburn and Lambeg Volunteers Firing a 'Feu de Joie' in Honour of the Dungannon Convention, 1782.jpg in honour of the Dungannon Convention1782.]]

Mechanisation, tied first to water, and then to steam, power, drove the growth of industry, but displaced independent weavers. In 1762, over 300 paraded through Lisburn brandishing blackthorn sticks as a protest against the threat of unemployment. In the 1780s they were gripped by the spirit of "combination"—the formation, in defiance of the law, of unions to press for higher piece rates. This brought workers into a sometimes uneasy relationship with the Volunteer militia.{{Cite book|last=Gray|first=John|title=The San Culottes of Belfast: The United Irishmen and the Men of No Property|publisher=Belfast Trades Union Council and the United Irishmen Commemorative Society|year=1998|location=Belfast|pages=7–13}}

The Volunteer militia movement, formed in response to the defence emergency caused by French intervention in the American War of Independence, served the town's merchants and tradesmen as an opportunity to protest (with their kindred in the American colonies) the restrictive English Navigation Acts and to insist on the independence of the Irish Parliament in Dublin. In 1783 [https://www.dib.ie/biography/jones-william-todd-a4348 William Todd Jones],{{Cite web |last=Woods |first=C. J. |date=2009 |title=Jones, William Todd {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/jones-william-todd-a4348 |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=www.dib.ie |language=en}} a captain of the Lisburn Fusilier Corps of Volunteers, took this patriot programme (approved at a convention in Dungannon) a step further. He successfully challenged the parliamentary nominees of the town and district's principal landlord, the Hertfords, on a platform of a representative reform to include votes for Catholics.{{Cite journal|last=Kelly|first=James|date=1988|title=The Parliamentary Reform Movement of the 1780s and the Catholic Question|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25487483|journal=Archivium Hibernicum|volume=43|pages=(95–117) 99|doi=10.2307/25487483|jstor=25487483|issn=0044-8745|access-date=6 May 2021|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506205808/https://www.jstor.org/stable/25487483|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}

In the wake of the French Revolution the cause of religious equality and representative government for Ireland was taken up in a still less compromising form by the Society of United Irishmen. The society won support of working men in the town, and of its leading Catholic family, the Teelings of Chapel Hill, wealthy linen manufacturers. Bartholomew Teeling (destined to hang) and his brother Charles, were an important connection between the largely Presbyterian "United men" and Catholic Defenders in rural areas.{{Cite book|last=Smyth|first=Jim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rEyvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA118|title=The Men of No Property, Irish Radicals and Popular Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century|publisher=Macmillan|year=1998|isbn=9781349266531|location=London|pages=118–119|access-date=6 May 2021|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506193505/https://books.google.com/books?id=rEyvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA118|url-status=live}} It is likely, however, that the greater strength in the district was the fraternal Orange Order, newly formed in defence of the Protestant [Church of Ireland] Ascendancy. In 1797 the Order paraded 3000 loyalists in the town before the British commander General Lake.{{Cite web|last=Gray|first=John|date=2010-07-01|title=The Twelfth of July|url=https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/features/heritage/twelfth-july-0|access-date=2021-05-12|website=Culture Northern Ireland|language=en|archive-date=12 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512150320/https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/features/heritage/twelfth-july-0|url-status=live}}

The neighbouring military camp at Blaris, ensured that when in 1798 the United Irishmen, decided upon insurrection, there could be no rebel demonstration in the town.{{Cite web|title=1798 Rebellion {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/1798_rebellion.htm|access-date=2021-05-06|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506193507/http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/1798_rebellion.htm|url-status=live}} Blaris supplied troops that helped ensure defeat for the forces of the "Republic" to the north of the town at the Battle of Antrim on June 7, and to the south at the Battle of Ballynahinch on June 12 where the "Croppies" had been under the command of the Lisburn linen draper, Henry Munro. For over a month, the severed heads of Munro and three of his lieutenants were displayed on pikes, one on each corner of the Market House.{{Cite web|date=1952|title=Lisburn, the Official Guide|url=https://eddiesextracts.com/books/lisburnc1952.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-13|website=eddiesextracts.com|archive-date=13 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513131523/https://eddiesextracts.com/books/lisburnc1952.html}}

The county-by-county record of pre-Famine Ireland, Hall's Ireland: Mr and Mrs Hall's Tour of 1840, found Lisburn recognisable as the settlement Rowden had formed more than two centuries before. Believing that between Drum Bridge and Lough Neagh the people were "almost exclusively" of English and Welsh extraction, the Halls ventured that in no town in Ireland were "the happy effects of English taste and industry more conspicuous".{{Cite book|last=Mr & Mrs S. C.|first=Hall|title=Hall's Ireland: Mr and Mrs Tour of 1840. Volume 2 (Edited by Michael Scott)|publisher=Sphere Books|year=1984|location=London|pages=341}} With the formation in 1836 of the Lisburn Cricket Club, the Halls might have noted that English taste also extended to sport and leisure.{{Cite web|title=The History Of Lisburn {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/history_of_lisburn.htm|access-date=2021-05-11|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506193509/http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/history_of_lisburn.htm|url-status=live}}

To the visitors the town still appeared in 1840 to consist "principally of one long street" (Bow Street) at the Market Square end of which stood the cathedral. An "interesting and picturesque church", it contained "two very remarkable monuments". One is of "the great and good Jeremy Taylor" (1613–1667), sometime Bishop of Down and Conor (reputed "Shakespeare of the Divines" and former chaplain to Charles I).{{Citation|last=Bowker|first=John|title=Taylor, Jeremy|date=2003-01-01|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192800947.001.0001/acref-9780192800947-e-7270|work=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780192800947.001.0001|isbn=978-0-19-280094-7|access-date=2021-05-11|archive-date=11 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511222918/https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192800947.001.0001/acref-9780192800947-e-7270|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}} The other is to the memory of Lieutenant William Dobbs killed in the capture of his vessel, HMS Drake, by the American privateer John Paul Jones (an engagement in Belfast Lough in 1778 that spurred formation of the Volunteer movement).{{Cite book|last1=McBride|first1=Ian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7AmxrBMKnaQC|title=Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century|last2=McBride|first2=Lecturer Department of History I. R.|date=1998|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-820642-2|pages=123|language=en|access-date=10 May 2021|archive-date=26 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526085122/https://books.google.com/books?id=7AmxrBMKnaQC|url-status=live}}  

The Halls would have been able to proceed the eight miles to Belfast on the newly completed Ulster Railway line. The line from Belfast was continued to Portadown and, with the completion of the Boyne Viaduct, connected with Dublin in 1855. A junction out of Lisburn at Knockmore, established further service to Banbridge and Newcastle and to Antrim and Derry. Lisburn's present railway station, built for the Great Northern Railway Company, dates from 1878.{{cite web|url=https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/virtual-museum-lisburn/photograph-lisburn-railway-station/|title=Photograph: Lisburn Railway Station|date=30 June 2020 |publisher=Lisburn Museum|access-date=21 November 2022}}

The new transportation links encouraged further industrial growth. In 1889, newspapers reported a rival to Barbour's factory: a "splendid new mill" by Robert Stewart & Son to employ over a thousand hands, with the novelty of electric lighting and "toilets on every floor".{{Cite web|title=Land of Linen and the Lambeg Drum {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/linen_and_the_lambeg_drum.htm|access-date=2021-05-14|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=15 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515140324/http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/linen_and_the_lambeg_drum.htm|url-status=live}}

As had other Protestant-majority districts, Lisburn quickly reconciled to the union with Great Britain that followed the 1798 rebellion. Support for the Union, seen both as a guarantee of free trade and as security against Catholic-majority rule, spurred the further growth in the town of the Orange Order and helped return Hertford-approved Conservative candidates to the Westminster parliament. The political loyalty of tenants (who were to enjoy a secret ballot only from 1871) was further secured by the relative beneficence of the 3rd Marquess of Hertford. Despite a reputation of being "the most thoroughgoing rove in the kingdom" and spending almost all of his life on the continent,{{Cite journal |last=Adams |first=Sharon |date=1979 |title=Relations between Landlord, Agent and Tenant on the Hertford Estate in the nineteenth century |url=http://lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume2/volume2-1.html |journal=Lisburn Historical Society |volume=2 |issue=1}} when cholera struck in 1832 Francis Seymour-Conway (1777–1842) erected a hospital and distributed medicines, blankets, clothing and other necessities throughout the estate.

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In 1842, Captain Richard Seymour-Conway (1800–1870), the 4th Marquess of Hertford, inherited 10 by 14 mile Lagan Valley estate on which some 4,000 tenants (and many more sub-tenants) provided an income of £60,000 (or £5 million in today's money).{{Cite web|last=Carson|first=James|date=1919|title=Some Extracts from the Records of Old Lisburn. LXXXI. Stannus v. Northern Whig, December 1872|url=http://anextractofreflection.blogspot.com/2012/05/stannus-v-northern-whig-1872.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326095028/http://anextractofreflection.blogspot.com/2012/05/stannus-v-northern-whig-1872.html|archive-date=26 March 2017|access-date=2021-09-24|website=An Extract of Reflection}} Yet he was to visit it but once, and then with the wish that, "pray God!", he should never have to do so again.{{Cite journal|last=Adams|first=Sharon|date=December 1979|title=Relations between Landlord, Agent and Tenant on the Hertford Estate in the nineteenth century|url=http://lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume2/volume2-1.html|journal=Lisburn Historical Society|volume=2:1|access-date=6 May 2021|archive-date=22 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022012852/http://lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume2/volume2-1.html|url-status=live}} When the edge of the Great Irish Famine reached the valley in 1847 and 1848, the Marquess declined to join the mill owners in subscribing to the relief efforts.{{Cite web|title=The Lisburn Workhouse {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume8/volume8-4.html|access-date=2021-05-11|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=12 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512084641/http://lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume8/volume8-4.html|url-status=live}} London's Wallace Collection, named after his illegitimate Parisian son and heir Sir Richard Wallace, is testimony to his chief passion, the acquisition of art.

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Wallace (1818–1890) was created baronet in 1871 and was the Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Lisburn from 1873 to 1885 (when Lisburn was incorporated into the new South Antrim constituency).{{Cite web |last=Lucy |first=Gordon |date=2018-06-25 |title=Lisburn benefactor Sir Richard Wallace was a man of international standing |url=https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/lisburn-benefactor-sir-richard-wallace-was-a-man-of-international-standing-280211 |access-date=2023-04-29 |website=Belfast News Letter |language=en}} His bequests to the people of Lisburn included Wallace Park, grounds for the Intermediate and University School (later renamed in his honour, Wallace High School), and a remodelling of the Market House.{{Cite web|title=The Market House And Assembly Rooms {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume6/volume6-6.html|access-date=2021-05-10|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510123417/http://lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume6/volume6-6.html|url-status=live}} (The large residence he built on Castle Street, but never occupied, today houses offices of the South Eastern Regional College). In 1872 he donated 50 "Wallace" drinking fountains (cast from a sculpture of Charles-Auguste Lebourg), to Paris (on whose humanitarian relief during the German siege of 1870–1871 he had already spent a considerable fortune)Horne, Alastair (1965) The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870–71, pgs 167–168. Penguin Books, London. {{ISBN|978-0-14-103063-0}} and five to Lisburn where one is still to be found in Castle Gardens and another in Wallace Park.{{Cite web|last=HIS|date=2015-01-30|title=Lisburn's Wallace Fountains|url=https://memorialdrinkingfountains.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/lisburns-wallace-fountains/|access-date=2021-05-07|website=Memorial Drinking Fountains|language=en|archive-date=7 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507175214/https://memorialdrinkingfountains.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/lisburns-wallace-fountains/|url-status=live}} The town responded with a memorial to Wallace In Castle Gardens.{{cite web|url=https://www.connollycove.com/castle-gardens-lisburn/|title=Castle Gardens, Lisburn|publisher=Connolly Cove|access-date=21 November 2022}}

In 1852, Lord Hertford's agent, the Reverend James Stannus, the Rector of Lisburn Cathedral, had occasion to write to him suggesting a general increase in rents as punishment for the tenants both for an attack on his person and for their defiance in voting for a dissident Conservative, a free-trade "Peelite". The following year the tenants sent a delegation to Hertford in Paris in a vain protest. In 1872, charges of "high-handed management of the estate" (the arbitrary fining and eviction of tenants, interference in elections, and discrimination against non-Anglicans) prompted Stannus's son and successor to sue the Belfast paper, the Northern Whig for defamation. The Dublin jury found for the plaintiff only under pressure from the judge, fixing the damages at £100.

Together with failing agricultural prices, a willingness even of Orangemen to join the Irish National Land League helped turn the tables: in the 1880s agents were proposing to appease tenant with rent reductions. Under the later marquesses, and as their legal powers to dictate terms diminished, tenant-landlord relations improved.

By the new century the Irish Land Acts had effectively retired the great proprietors and their agents from the scene. In a departing gesture, in 1901, Sir John Murray Scott, heir of Lady Wallace, gave the Market House with its Assembly Rooms to Lisburn Urban District Council, for "the benefit of the inhabitants of the town". The Hertford Rent Office in Castle Street was closed in 1901 and became Lisburn Town Hall.{{cite web|url=http://www.lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/maps_of_the_town.htm|title=Maps of the Town and the Hertford Estate|publisher=Lisburn.com|access-date=17 June 2022}}

In July 1914, in the first of many acts of political violence Lisburn was to experience in the new century, the chancel of Lisburn Cathedral was destroyed by a bomb.{{Cite web|last=Toal|first=Ciaran|date=2014|title=The brutes – Mrs Metge and the Lisburn Cathedral, bomb 1914|url=https://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/brutes-mrs-metge-lisburn-cathedral-bomb-1914/|access-date=22 November 2019|website=History Ireland|archive-date=14 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414224751/https://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/brutes-mrs-metge-lisburn-cathedral-bomb-1914/|url-status=live}} It had been placed by Lilian Metge as part of a broader campaign on behalf of women's suffrage, co-ordinated by Dorothy Evans of the Women's Social and Political Union. The previous year, explosives having been found in her Belfast apartment, Evans had created uproar in court when she demanded to know why James Craig, who at that point had overseen the arming of the Ulster Volunteers (UVF) with smuggled German munitions, was not appearing on the same charges.{{cite web|last1=Kelly|first1=Vivien|title=Irish Suffragettes at the time of the Home Rule Crisis|url=http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/irish-suffragettes-at-the-time-of-the-home-rule-crisis/|access-date=15 September 2020|website=historyireland.com|date=24 January 2013|publisher=History Ireland|archive-date=16 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916135844/http://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/irish-suffragettes-at-the-time-of-the-home-rule-crisis/|url-status=live}}

Lisburn and neighbouring communities raised three battalions of the UVF, the South Antrim Volunteers. They were a token of the determination of local people (in the words of Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant) "to stand by one another in defending for ourselves and our children our position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom, and in using all means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland".{{cite web|author=PRONI|title=The Ulster Covenant: Ulster Day|url=http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/ulster_covenant/ulster_day.htm|access-date=29 September 2012|archive-date=29 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829093828/http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/ulster_covenant/ulster_day.htm|url-status=live}} The United Kingdom declaration of war upon Germany (August 3), paused resolution of the Home Rule Crisis, and many of Lisburn's Volunteers would go on to serve with the 36th (Ulster) Division.{{cite web|url=http://lisburn.com/history/memories/memories-2006/somme-heroes.html|title=Why Lisburn's Somme heroes deserve to be remembered|publisher=Lisburn.com|access-date=21 November 2022}}

On July 12, 1916, for the first time since 1797 there was no Orange demonstration of any kind to celebrate the Williamite victory at the Boyne. The customary midnight drumming parade was abandoned, and no arches or flags were displayed. Most of the mills and factories were closed.{{Cite web|title=Orange Institution – 12th of July Anniversaries – GlenavyHistory.com|url=http://glenavyhistory.com/brotherhoods/brotherhoods-glenavy/12th-of-july-anniversaries/|access-date=2021-05-13|website=glenavyhistory.com|archive-date=13 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513215105/http://glenavyhistory.com/brotherhoods/brotherhoods-glenavy/12th-of-july-anniversaries/|url-status=live}} The town responded to the news that on the first day of Somme offensive, July 1, the Ulster Division had lost 5,000 men wounded, 2,069 killed.{{cite web|title=The 36th (Ulster) Division on 1 July 1916|url=https://www.royal-irish.com/stories/the-36th-ulster-division-on-1-july-1916|url-status=live|access-date=12 May 2021|publisher=Royal Irish|archive-date=13 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513215112/https://www.royal-irish.com/stories/the-36th-ulster-division-on-1-july-1916}}

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In 1920, Lisburn saw violence related to the Irish War of Independence and partition of Ireland. On 22 August, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) assassinated Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) Inspector Oswald Swanzy in Lisburn's Market Square, as worshippers left Sunday service in the cathedral.{{Cite web|title={{sic|Assas|ination|nolink=y}} of Detective Inspector Oswald Ross Swanzy {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/history/memories/memories-2004/swanzy.html|access-date=2021-05-12|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=21 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221201614/http://lisburn.com/history/memories/memories-2004/swanzy.html|url-status=live}} Swanzy was among those a coroner's inquest in Cork had held responsible for the killing of Tomás Mac Curtain, the city's republican Lord Mayor.{{Cite web|last=McCarthy|first=Kieran|date=2020-08-22|title=A Gun and its Story: The Assassination of Oswald Swanzy|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-40035962.html|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Irish Examiner|language=en|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510094350/https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-40035962.html|url-status=live}}

Over the next three days and nights Protestant loyalist crowds looted and burned practically every Catholic business in the town, and attacked Catholic homes.Lawlor, pp.115–121 There is evidence that Ulster Volunteers had helped organise the burnings.{{Cite book |last=Lawlor |first=Pearse |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvwLAQAAMAAJ&q=Lawlor,+the+burnings+1920 |title=The Burnings 1920 |date=2009 |publisher=Mercier Press |isbn=978-1-85635-612-1 |pages=153 |language=en |access-date=26 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526085122/https://books.google.com/books?id=dvwLAQAAMAAJ&q=Lawlor,+the+burnings+1920 |archive-date=26 May 2021 |url-status=live}} Rioters attacked firemen who tried to save Catholic property,Lawlor, p.137 and lorries of British soldiers sent to help the police. Brigadier-General William Pain (a former Ulster Volunteer leader) had troops guard the Catholic church and convent, but failed to take strong action to quell rioting elsewhere. The parochial house was looted, burnt out and daubed with sectarian slogans.Lawlor, p.143 Some Catholics were severely beaten, and a Catholic pub owner later died of gunshot wounds. A charred body was found in the ruins of a factory.Lawlor, p.126

Lisburn was likened to "a bombarded town in France" during the war.[https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/virtual-museum/the-swanzy-riots-1920/ The Swanzy Riots, 1920] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112093318/https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/virtual-museum/the-swanzy-riots-1920 |date=12 January 2021 }}. Lisburn Museum. About 1,000 people, a third of the town's Catholics, fled Lisburn.{{Cite web|title=Swanzy Riots|url=https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/virtual-museum/swanzy-riots/|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum|language=en-GB|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510144345/https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/virtual-museum/swanzy-riots/|url-status=live}} Many were forced to take the mountain road to Belfast where troops were already blocking off streets with barbed wire cordons, a prelude to still greater violence. Fires soon raged across Belfast and in the next few days thirty people were killed in the city (see Belfast Pogrom).{{Cite book|last=Walsh|first=Maurice|title=Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World, 1918–1923|publisher=Faber and Faber|year=2015|isbn=9780571243006|location=London|pages=304}} As a result of the violence, Lisburn was the first town to recruit the special constables who went on to become the Ulster Special Constabulary. In October, about thirty special constables faced charges for involvement in the "Swanzy riots".Lawlor, pp.171–176 The last Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Hamar Greenwood, admitted that "some hundred special constables in Lisburn threatened to resign" in protest.{{Cite web|title=Outrages and Reprisals. |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1920/oct/25/outrages-and-reprisals|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-08|website=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|archive-date=1 November 2020|date=25 October 1920|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101100513/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1920/oct/25/outrages-and-reprisals}} Charges were not pursued.

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On the day that a 700-year English presence in the south of Ireland ended with the formal hand over of Dublin Castle to the government of the Irish Free State, 16 January 1922, Lisburn celebrated the centenary of the local "hero of the Indian Mutiny", John Nicholson (1822–1857).{{Cite web|title=Unveiling of the John Nicholson Statue, January 1922, ILC&LM Collection|url=https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Unveiling-of-the-John-Nicholson-Statue-January-1922-ILCLM-Collection.jpg|access-date=2021-05-07|website=Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum|language=en-GB|archive-date=7 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507175214/https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Unveiling-of-the-John-Nicholson-Statue-January-1922-ILCLM-Collection.jpg|url-status=live}} Under a marble relief of his final assault on Delhi's Kashmir Gate, a memorial in the Cathedral credited Nicholson with dealing a "death blow to the greatest danger that ever threatened the British Empire".{{Cite web|title=War Memorial John Nicholson Memorial in Lisburn (Christ Church) Cathedral, Lisburn, Antrim|url=http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/Memorials-Detail?memoId=1220|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Irishwarmemorials.ie|archive-date=11 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511131016/http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/Memorials-Detail?memoId=1220|url-status=live}} For James Craig, now the first prime minister of Northern Ireland, and for other dignitaries speaking at the unveiling of a new statue in Market Square, the East India Company Brigadier (depicted with both sword and gun in hand) was "a symbol of the defence of Empire in Ireland as well as India.{{Cite news|last=Flinders|first=Stuart|date=5 September 2018|title=The fearless Ulsterman who was worshipped as a god in India|language=en-GB|work=belfasttelegraph|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/archive/the-fearless-ulsterman-who-was-worshipped-as-a-god-in-india-37282426.html|access-date=2021-05-10|issn=0307-1235|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510145126/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/archive/the-fearless-ulsterman-who-was-worshipped-as-a-god-in-india-37282426.html|url-status=live}}

In April the following year crowds gathered again to dedicate the Victory Memorial in Castle Gardens.{{Cite web|title=9–1922|url=https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/virtual-museum/exhibition-planting-a-parliament/ix-1922/|access-date=2021-05-07|website=Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum|language=en-GB|archive-date=7 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507204829/https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/virtual-museum/exhibition-planting-a-parliament/ix-1922/|url-status=live}} Had he not been assassinated by the IRA on his London doorstep, it would have been unveiled by Sir Henry Wilson, former Chief of the Imperial General Staff and MP for North Down.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh39e8NMJ1c |title=‘Lisburn and the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP’ with Ronan McGreevy |date=2023-04-11 |last=Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum |access-date=2025-05-25 |via=YouTube}}

As the linen industry was hugely dependent on the export market, Lisburn and the surrounding area was hit hard in the 1930s by the worldwide economic depression. The pattern of unemployment, half-time contracts and reduced wages was fully reversed only by new wartime mobilisation. While some of the town and region linen mills helped produce material for uniforms, boot laces, kit bags, bandages, tents, and parachutes, others were converted to churning out munitions, with women undertaking much of the work.{{Cite web|title=4: The War-Time Economy|url=https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/virtual-museum/4-the-war-time-economy/|access-date=2021-05-09|website=Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum|language=en-GB|archive-date=9 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509144402/https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/virtual-museum/4-the-war-time-economy/|url-status=live}} 

The Second World War struck close to Lisburn with the Belfast Blitz of April and May 1941. The town and the surrounding area was flooded by thousands of evacuees all of whom, as one member of the Lisburn Women's Voluntary Service recalled, had to be "fed, housed, deloused, marshalled, bathed, clothed, pacified and brought back to normal".{{Cite web|title=The Home Front|url=https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/virtual-museum/the-home-front/|access-date=2021-05-08|website=Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum|language=en-GB|archive-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508103046/https://www.lisburnmuseum.com/virtual-museum/the-home-front/|url-status=live}}

In the post-war decades the demand for linen declined (precipitously after World War Two) in response to new textiles and changing fashion. With a workforce reduced to just 85, the Barbour mill in Hilden finally closed in 2006.

The population of Lisburn, which in 1951 was still just 15,000, nonetheless continued to grow. In part this was a consequence of the expansion of the town boundary lines in 1973, and of a dramatic increase in public authority housing with overspill from Belfast. As stock improved, the town retained few examples of the terraced housing built by the mill owners in the nineteenth century. Development did see the loss of some historic landmarks: the Victorian Court House in Railway Street, the Sacred Heart of Mary Grammar School in Castle Street and, in Linenhall Street, the Independent Order of Good Templars hall and the weaving factory of William Coulson.{{Cite news|title=Historical town with an eye to the future|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/imported/historical-town-with-an-eye-to-the-future-28371069.html|access-date=2021-05-08|newspaper=Belfasttelegraph.co.uk|language=en|archive-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508103047/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/imported/historical-town-with-an-eye-to-the-future-28371069.html|url-status=live}}

The opening of the M1 motorway in 1962 further integrated Lisburn into the greater Belfast commercial and residential area.[http://www.iht.org/motorway/m1ni.htm The Motorway Archive – M1 (Northern Ireland)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009142931/http://www.iht.org/motorway/m1ni.htm |date=9 October 2007 }}

In 1989 the new edge-of-town Sprucefield retail park opened.{{cite news |last=Hamilton |first=Graham |date=10 February 2001 |title=Hockey: Garvey striking it rich with £2m ground |work=Belfast Telegraph |publisher=Belfast Telegraph Newspapers}} The centre was virtually destroyed in January 1991 in a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) incendiary attack. Marks and Spencer, the principal anchor was spared, but the three other major stores were destroyed.{{cite news |last=McKittrick |first=David |date=7 January 1991 |title=IRA revives firebomb attacks |page=3 |work=The Independent |publisher=Newspaper Publishing PLC}}

On what was once known (because of the production of sulphuric acid bleach) as Vitriol Island in the middle of the River Lagan, the last remnants of the Island Spinning Company were demolished in the early 1990s. The Lagan Valley Island Complex was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, in November 2001.{{cite web|url=https://www.royal.uk/archive/200111?page=8|title=November 2001|publisher=Royal.uk|access-date=21 November 2022}}

A borough since 1973, Lisburn was granted city status in 2002 as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden jubilee celebrations."[http://www.nio.gov.uk/city-status-conferred-on-lisburn-and-newry/media-detail.htm?newsID=7651 City Status conferred on Lisburn and Newry] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214081149/http://www.nio.gov.uk/city-status-conferred-on-lisburn-and-newry/media-detail.htm?newsID=7651 |date=14 February 2012 }}", Northern Ireland Office, 14 May 2002. Retrieved 4 March 2008.

First built in 1940, Thiepval Barracks is a large military complex on the edge of town was named after the village of Thiepval in Northern France, the site of the Ulster Division's heaviest losses in 1916 on the Somme.{{cite web|title=Thiepval Memorial|publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/80800/THIEPVAL%20MEMORIAL|access-date=14 November 2012}}

In early 1970 the Thiepval Barracks became home to 39 Infantry Brigade{{cite web|date=26 June 2006|title=Shackleton Barracks Ballykelly to Close|url=http://www.sandes.org.uk/news_detail.asp?id=13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004101106/http://www.sandes.org.uk/news_detail.asp?id=13|archive-date=2011-10-04|access-date=2019-04-07|website=sandes.org.uk|df=dmy-all}} and provided the headquarters for the locally recruited Ulster Defence Regiment.{{cite book | last=Potter | first=John | title=A testimony to courage : the regimental history of the Ulster Defence Regiment | publisher=Leo Cooper | location=London | year=2001 | isbn=978-0-85052-819-0 | oclc=854583867 |page=24}} From August 1969, the Brigade, as 39 Airportable Brigade, was involved in The Troubles in Northern Ireland, eventually taking on responsibility, under HQ Northern Ireland, for an area including Belfast and the eastern side of the province, but excluding the South Armagh border region. From September 1970, it was commanded by (then) Brigadier Frank Kitson.[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100401163700/http://www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org.uk/reports/kstatments/Archive/CK1.pdf Bloody Sunday Inquiry website—Statement of General Sir Frank Kitson. Retrieved 28 May 2008].

In Lisburn's last casualties of the conflict, a soldier was killed and 31 people were injured when the(IRA) exploded two car bombs in the barracks on October 7, 1996.{{Cite web |url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch96.htm#Oct |title=CAIN – Chronology of the conflict – October 1996 |access-date=13 May 2021 |archive-date=17 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110417010027/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch96.htm#Oct |url-status=live }}

The barracks remain home to 38th (Irish) Brigade.{{cite web|date=12 December 2017|title=The British Army – 38 (Irish) Brigade|url=http://www.army.mod.uk/structure/28217.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213050718/http://www.army.mod.uk/structure/28217.aspx|archive-date=13 December 2017|access-date=7 April 2019|website=army.mod.uk}}

{{Main|The Troubles in Lisburn}}With communities across Northern Ireland, from the end of the 1960s Lisburn suffered through three decades of political violence, "The Troubles". For Lisburn the first killings came in 1976: in the course of the year, five Catholic residents died as a result of gun and bomb attacks by the Ulster Defence Association and (a new) Ulster Volunteer Force, loyalist paramilitary groups that subsequently entered their own feud.{{cite book|last1=McKittrick|first1=David|title=Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles|date=2004|publisher=Mainstream Publishing|isbn=978-1-84018-504-1|pages=620, 631, 676}} In 1978 the IRA murdered a Royal Ulster Constabulary officer at his home in front of his family.{{Cite news|last=Cobain|first=Ian|date=31 October 2020|title=Anatomy of a killing: 'Harry pulled the gun out and took aim'|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/anatomy-of-a-killing-harry-pulled-the-gun-out-and-took-aim-1.4393321|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-09|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en|archive-date=5 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205123129/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/anatomy-of-a-killing-harry-pulled-the-gun-out-and-took-aim-1.4393321}} It was the first in a series of targeted assassinations of security-force personnel in the town that culminated in the 1988 Lisburn Van Bombing: five off-duty British soldiers killed at the end of a charity run in Market Square.[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-16-mn-6854-story.html "Bomb at Northern Ireland 'Fun Run' Kills 5 Soldiers, Hurts 10". Los Angeles Times. 16 June 1988] Retrieved 20 February 2012{{Cite web |url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1988/jun/16/lisburn-muder-of-soldiers |title=Lisburn (Murder of Soldiers) Hansard parliamentary debate, 16 June 1988 |access-date=9 May 2021 |archive-date=2 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102112146/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1988/jun/16/lisburn-muder-of-soldiers |url-status=dead }} The Troubles in the town claimed a total of 32 lives.totalled from McKittrick (2004)

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As elsewhere, private investment in Lisburn has shifted employment away from traditional industries toward services. Just under 10% of the town and district's workforce remains in manufacturing,{{Cite web|last=Invest Northern Ireland|date=July 2018|title=Council Area Profile, Lisburn and Castlereagh (Employee Jobs, 2016)|url=https://www.investni.com/sites/default/files/documents/static/library/invest-ni/documents/business-intelligence-sub-regional-intelligence-council-area-profile-lisburn-and-castlereagh.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=9 May 2021|website=InvestNI|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510142854/https://www.investni.com/sites/default/files/documents/static/library/invest-ni/documents/business-intelligence-sub-regional-intelligence-council-area-profile-lisburn-and-castlereagh.pdf}} but it is a dynamic sector that includes precision-engineering exporters.{{Cite web|title=Advanced Engineering – Invest Lisburn Castlereagh|url=https://www.investlisburncastlereagh.com/key-sectors/advanced-engineering|access-date=2021-05-09|website=Investlisburncastlereagh.com|archive-date=9 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509144359/https://www.investlisburncastlereagh.com/key-sectors/advanced-engineering|url-status=live}} Recent decades have seen very considerable public investment and new public service jobs, now accounting for a third of the district's overall employment.

After receiving city status in 2008, in the 2016 reform of local government in Northern Ireland Lisburn was combined with residential areas of broadly similar social and political complexion bordering Belfast to the south and east. The fusion produced Lisburn City and Castlereagh District. According to measures devised by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, the district ranked among the least socially and economically deprived in the province.{{Cite web|last=Madden|first=Andrew|date=2017-11-24|title=Where are the most deprived areas of Northern Ireland?|url=http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/half-100-most-deprived-areas-13942565|access-date=2021-06-10|website=BelfastLive|language=en|archive-date=10 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610104140/https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/half-100-most-deprived-areas-13942565|url-status=live}}

In the third election to new 40-seat Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, in May 2023, the twelve seats representing Lisburn returned a reduced unionist majority: four seats for the DUP (a loss of one) and two for the UUP (a loss of two) and an independent unionist. The cross-community Alliance Party held gained one to hold three; the moderate nationalist SDLP retained a seat, and for the first time Lisburn returned a Sinn Féin councillor.{{Cite web |title=Elected Members of Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council |url=https://www.lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk/council/elected-members |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=www.lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk}} Following the election, in June 2023 Gary McCleave, who was re-elected to represent the Killultagh DEA became "the first ever Sinn Féin councillor to hold a mayoral position in Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council":{{Cite web |last=Ainsworth |first=Paul |date=2023-06-08 |title=Lisburn and Castlereagh appoints first Sinn Féin councillor to hold mayoral position |url=https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2023/06/08/news/lisburn_and_castlereagh_appoints_first_sinn_fe_in_councillor_to_hold_mayoral_position-3335127/ |access-date=2023-08-07 |website=The Irish News |language=en}} he was named deputy mayor.

Following the decision of the sitting DUP MP and party leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, not to stand in the 2024 United Kingdom general election, Lisburn's Lagan Valley constituency returned for the first time a non-unionist, a woman, and a person from a Catholic community background, the Alliance Party's Sorcha Eastwood.{{cite news |last1=Carroll |first1=Rory |title=Donaldson's downfall raises questions over Stormont power sharing |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/29/donaldsons-downfall-raises-questions-over-stormont-power-sharing |access-date=29 March 2024 |newspaper=The Guardian}}{{Cite web |date=2025-03-29 |title=‘I see the best of both worlds’ – Sorcha Eastwood on misogyny, a united Ireland and her meteroic rise in politics |url=https://www.irishnews.com/life/i-see-the-best-of-both-worlds-sorcha-eastwood-on-mysogyny-a-united-ireland-and-her-meteroic-rise-in-politics-JUR3ACMT25G2ZCPAJLMVGIYTDU/ |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=The Irish News |language=en}}

Lisburn is the administrative centre of Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council area.{{Cite web|url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Sr/sr2002/20020231.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071206141412/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Sr/sr2002/20020231.htm|url-status=dead|title=Change of District Name (Lisburn Borough) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002|archive-date=6 December 2007|access-date=27 January 2022}}

In elections for the Westminster Parliament the city falls mainly into the Lagan Valley constituency.{{cite news |title=Lagan Valley Parliamentary constituency |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/N06000009 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 November 2019 |archive-date=9 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200109234903/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/N06000009 |url-status=live }}

Two District Electoral Areas cover the city and surrounding areas. Lisburn North (Derriaghy, Harmony Hill, Hilden, Lambeg, Magheralave, Wallace Park) and Lisburn South (Ballymacash, Ballymacoss, Knockmore, Lagan Valley, Lisnagarvey, Old Warren). In the 2023 local elections the following were elected to represent the two DEAs:

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|name = Lisburn North

|seats = 6

|member1 = {{sortname|Paul|Burke|nolink=1}}

|party1 = Sinn Féin

|member2 = {{sortname|Jonathan|Craig}}

|party2 = Democratic Unionist Party

|member3 = {{sortname|Nicola|Parker|nolink=1}}

|party3 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

|member4 = {{sortname|Pat|Catney}}

|party4 = Social Democratic and Labour Party

|member5 = {{sortname|Nicholas|Trimble|nolink=1}}

|party5 = Ulster Unionist Party

|member6 = {{sortname|Gary|Hynds|nolink=1}}

|party6 = Independent politician

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|seats = 6

|member1 = {{sortname|Andrew|Ewing|nolink=1}}

|party1 = Democratic Unionist Party

|member2 = {{sortname|Amanda|Grehan|nolink=1}}

|party2 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

|member3 = {{sortname|Alan|Givan|nolink=1}}

|party3 = Democratic Unionist Party

|member4 = {{sortname|Peter|Kennedy|nolink=1}}

|party4 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

|member5 = {{sortname|Tim|Mitchell|nolink=1}}

|party5 = Ulster Unionist Party

|member6 = {{sortname|Paul|Porter|nolink=1}}

|party6 = Democratic Unionist Party

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The headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland at Thiepval Barracks and the headquarters of the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service are located in the city.{{cite web|url=https://www.nifrs.org/contact-us/|title=Contact us|publisher= Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service|access-date=21 November 2022}}

{{Historical populations

|state=collapsed

|1821|4684

|1831|5745

|1841|6284

|1851|6533

|1861|7462

|1871|7876

|1881|10755

|1891|12250

|1901|11461

|1911|12388

|1926|12406

|1937|13042

|1951|14781

|1961|17700

|1966|21522

|1971|31836

|1981|82091

|1991|99458

|2001|71465

|2011|45370

|2021|51447

|footnote=Figures for 1981 and 1991 are the census figures for Lisburn City Council, which covered a larger area than the former county borough. The figure for 2001 is for Lisburn Urban Area. The figures for 2011 and 2021 are for Lisburn City Settlement.{{cite web | url = https://www.ninis2.nisra.gov.uk/public/PivotGrid.aspx?ds=4840&lh=69&yn=2001&sk=135&sn=Census%202001&yearfilter=2001 | title = Census 2001 Usually Resident Population: KS01 (Settlements) – Table view | page = 5 | publisher = Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) | access-date = 27 August 2019 | archive-date = 23 September 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210923152256/https://www.ninis2.nisra.gov.uk/public/Home.aspx | url-status = live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency - Census Home Page |access-date=2013-12-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census/ |archive-date=17 February 2012 }} and http://www.histpop.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |date=7 May 2016 }} for post 1821 figures, 1813 estimate from Mason's Statistical Survey For a discussion on the accuracy of pre-famine census returns see J. J. Lee "On the accuracy of the pre-famine Irish censuses Irish Population, Economy and Society edited by J. M. Goldstrom and L. A. Clarkson (1981) p. 54, in and also New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850 by Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Nov 1984), pp. 473–488.

}}

On Census Day (27 March 2011) the usually resident population of Lisburn City Settlement was 45,370 accounting for 2.51% of the NI total.{{cite web |title=Census 2011 Population Statistics for Lisburn City Settlement |url=https://www.ninis2.nisra.gov.uk/public/AreaProfileReportViewer.aspx?FromAPAddressMulipleRecords=Lisburn%20City@Partial%20match%20of%20location%20name:%20@Partial%20Match%20Of%20Location%20Name:%20%20Lisburn%20City@23? |website=NINIS |access-date=21 December 2019 }} 30px This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Open Government Licence v3.0] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628175632/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ |date=28 June 2017 }}. © Crown copyright.

• 97.51% were from the white (including Irish Traveller) ethnic group;
• 22.24% belong to or were brought up Catholic and 67.32% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and other (non-Catholic) Christian (including Christian related)' and
• 67.65% indicated that they had a British national identity, 11.32% had an Irish national identity and 29.04% had a Northern Irish national identity.

Respondents could indicate more than one national identity.

On Census Day, in Lisburn City Settlement, considering the population aged 3 years old and over:

• 3.72% had some knowledge of Irish;
• 6.51% had some knowledge of Ulster-Scots; and
• 3.25% did not have English as their first language.

On Census Day (2021) the usually resident population of Lisburn City Settlement was 51,447:

• 26.84% (13,808) belong to or were brought up Catholic and 56.37% (29,003) belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and other (non-Catholic) Christian (including Christian related)', 1.84% belong to other religions and 14.95% and no religious background{{cite web |title=Religion or religion brought up in |url=https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&v=RELIGION_BELONG_TO_OR_BROUGHT_UP_IN_DVO&%7ESETTLEMENT15=N11000438 |website=NISRA |access-date=16 August 2023}}
• 43.55% (22,406) indicated that they had a British national identity, 13.32% (6,856) had an Irish national identity, 20.04% (10,312) had a Northern Irish national identity, 11.04% (5,680) had a British and Northern Irish only, 1.29% (664) had an Irish and Northern Irish only, and 1.78% (917) had a British, Irish and Northern Irish only.{{cite web |title=National identity (person based) - basic detail (classification 1) |url=https://build.nisra.gov.uk/en/custom/data?d=PEOPLE&v=SETTLEMENT15&v=NAT_ID_BASIC&%7ESETTLEMENT15=N11000438 |website=NISRA |access-date=16 August 2023}}

The Classical School in Bow Lane, founded 1756 and mastered for fifty-six years by the Huguenot and Anglican cleric and scholar Saumaurez Dubourdieu, was the first school of note in Lisburn. Friends' School, founded for Quaker children, followed in 1774. Comparable grammar-school education was not provided for Catholic children until the Convent of the Sacred Heart of Mary started boarding pupils in a house in Castle Street in 1870, and not for other children in the town until 1880 when Sir Richard Wallace founded the Intermediate and University School on the Antrim (renamed Wallace High School in his honour in 1942).{{Cite web|last=Kee|first=Fred|date=1976|title="The Old Town Schools", Lisburn Miscellany, Lisburn Historical Society|url=http://s118536411.websitehome.co.uk/books/lisburn_miscellany/miscellany_3.html#Schools|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-05|website=s118536411.websitehome.co.uk|archive-date=5 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605220946/http://s118536411.websitehome.co.uk/books/lisburn_miscellany/miscellany_3.html#Schools}}{{Cite web|title=The History Of Lisburn {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/history_of_lisburn.htm|access-date=2021-06-05|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506193509/http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/history_of_lisburn.htm|url-status=live}}

The first Lisburn school which did not ask pupils whether they attended church, chapel or meeting was that founded on the Dublin Road by John Crossley in 1810. Known then as the Male Free School, it was the first free school in Ulster to be based on the Bell and Lancaster monitorial system.

A school for poor children, established by Jane Hawkshaw in 1821 with the support of the 3rd marquess, taught no catechism and made no attempt at religious instruction. It adopted that principle that "while so great diversity prevails on this subject, it [is] best to separate religion from the instructing in reading, writing, arithmetic and sewing". Religious instruction was to be left to "the parents, with the assistance of their respective teachers".{{Cite web|title="Historical Account of the Town of Lisburn". 1819 Belfast Lisburn Directory Lisburn|url=https://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/1819_Lisburn.htm|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-05|website=Lennonwylie.co.uk|archive-date=5 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605220947/https://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/1819_Lisburn.htm}} It is a principle that the government tried, but in the face of church opposition failed, to realise in its original 1830 plans for an Irish system of National Schools.{{Cite book|last=Shearman|first=Hugh|title=Modern Ireland|publisher=George G. Harrap & Co|year=1952|location=London|pages=84–85}}

Another exception to control by the church education authorities was Hilden School, established under mill management by William Barbour in 1829.

Today, Fort Hill Primary and Fort Hill College make a conscious effort to surmount principal sectarian divide in the town through a system of "integrated education". Children from Catholic and Protestant homes in Lisburn are otherwise taught, with limited exception, separately on a pattern that, by the mid-nineteenth century, had been established throughout Ireland.{{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Alan|date=2001|title=Religious Segregation and the Emergence of Integrated Schools in Northern Ireland|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1050786|journal=Oxford Review of Education|volume=27|issue=4|pages=559–575|doi=10.1080/03054980120086248|jstor=1050786|s2cid=144419805|issn=0305-4985|access-date=5 June 2021|archive-date=5 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605220945/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1050786|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}

Lisburn Central Primary School ({{coord|54.5070|-6.0489|type:edu_region:IE|display=inline}}) is an eco-school and nursery unit. The school was established in 1934 when the first Lisburn Presbyterian Church School and the Christ Church, Church of Ireland Nicholson School united to form one school{{Cite web |last=Star |first=Ulster |date=26 March 2010 |title=First day at Lisburn Central PS recalled at |url=https://lisburn.com/archives/info/news-2010/first-day-at-lisburn-central.html |website=Lisburn.com}} Lisburn Central was awarded a Green Flag award in 2023 for its publicly accessible park and open spaces.{{Cite web |title=The Green Flag Award for Lisburn Central |url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Green_fllag_award_for_Central_Primary.jpg |website=Wikimedia}}

In 2012, Scoil na Fuiseoige, the first Irish-language-medium primary school, serving the Lisburn area, opened in Twinbrook.{{Cite web |date=2012-10-31 |title=Education Minister opens new Scoil na Fuiseoige |url=https://www.northernirelandworld.com/news/education-minister-opens-new-scoil-na-fuiseoige-2727066 |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=NorthernIrelandWorld |language=en}}

South Eastern Regional College is a successor to the Lisburn Technical Institute established in 1914.{{Cite web |title=Education In Lisburn {{!}} Lisburn.com |url=http://s118536411.websitehome.co.uk/books/historical_society/volume7/volume7-7.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210606165613/http://s118536411.websitehome.co.uk/books/historical_society/volume7/volume7-7.html |archive-date=6 June 2021 |access-date=2021-06-06 |website=s118536411.websitehome.co.uk}} On its enlarged Castle Street campus, it offers courses and apprenticeships in Bio-Sciences, Computing, Electronic Engineering, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, Media, Music, Photography, Sport and Recreation, Travel and Tourism, Construction, Animal Management, Creative Industries and Performing Arts.{{Cite web |title=Lisburn Campus |url=https://www.serc.ac.uk/lisburn-campus |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=SERC |language=en-GB}}

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Lisburn is notable for its large number of churches, with 132 churches listed in the Lisburn City Council area.{{cite web|title=List of churches on Lisburn.com|url=http://www.lisburn.com/churches.html|access-date=6 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420143900/http://www.lisburn.com/churches.html|archive-date=20 April 2013|url-status=live}} Christ Church Cathedral (from 1708), commonly referred to as Lisburn Cathedral, is the diocesan church for the Church of Ireland bishopric of Connor.{{Cite web|title=Cathedral {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/books/Cathedral/cathedral-1.html|access-date=2022-01-07|website=lisburn.com}}

The principal Roman Catholic Church in Lisburn is St Patrick's on Chapel Hill dedicated in 1900.{{Cite web|title=St. Patrick's Church Lisburn {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/st-patricks-lisburn.html|access-date=2021-06-05|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=5 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605222716/http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/st-patricks-lisburn.html|url-status=live}} For Presbyterians the senior congregation remains that of the First Presbyterian Church, off Market Square, built in 1768, and enlarged and remodelled in 1873 and 1970.{{Cite web|title=First Lisburn Presbyterian Church Lisburn {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/first-lisburn-presbyterian.html|access-date=2021-06-05|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510142414/http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/first-lisburn-presbyterian.html|url-status=live}} For the Methodists, it is the Seymour Street Church opened on ground donated by Sir Richard Wallace in 1875.{{Cite web|title=Seymour Street Methodist Church {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/lisburn-methodist.html|access-date=2021-06-05|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=27 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227103443/http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/lisburn-methodist.html|url-status=live}}

The Lisburn railway station was opened on 12 August 1839. Express trains taking 10–15 minutes to reach Belfast's Great Victoria Street. The train also links the city directly with Newry, Portadown, Lurgan, Moira and Bangor. The station also has services to Dublin Connolly in the city of Dublin, with three trains per day stopping at the station. All railway services from the station are provided by Northern Ireland Railways, a subsidiary of Translink. The city is also served by Hilden railway station.

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Ulsterbus provides various bus services that connect the city with Belfast city centre, which lies eight miles northeast. These services generally operate either along Belfast's Lisburn Road or through the Falls area in west Belfast. In addition to long-distance services to Craigavon, Newry and Banbridge, there is also a network of buses that serve the rural areas around the city, such as Glenavy and Dromara; as well as an hourly bus service 6:00 am – 6:00 pm Monday-Saturday to Belfast International Airport.{{cite web|url=https://www.rome2rio.com/s/Lisburn/Belfast-Aldergrove-Airport-BFS|title=Lisburn to Belfast (Aldergrove) Airport|publisher=Rome to Rio.com|access-date=21 November 2022}}

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The city has a network of local buses, serving the local housing developments and amenities. These are operated by Ulsterbus.{{Cite web |url=http://www.translink.co.uk/present/IndexSvc.asp |title=Translink Service 325: "Lisburn City Service" |access-date=31 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100530214510/http://www.translink.co.uk/present/IndexSvc.asp#321_340 |archive-date=30 May 2010 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}

A new "Buscentre", provided by the regional public transport provider Translink, opened on 30 June 2008 at the corner of Smithfield Street and the Hillsborough Road. It replaced the shelters that formerly stood in Smithfield Square.{{Cite web|url=http://www.translink.co.uk/20080616newlisburnbuscentre.asp|title=Translink Press Release 16-Jun-2008: "Passengers to benefit from Brand New Lisburn Buscentre|website=Translink.co.uk|access-date=27 January 2022}}

The city is located on the Belfast-Dublin corridor, being connected with the former by the M1 motorway from which it can be accessed through junctions 3, 6, 7 and 8. The A1 road to Newry and Dublin deviates from the M1 at the Sprucefield interchange, which is positioned one mile southeast of the city centre. An inner orbital route was formed throughout the 1980s which has permitted the city centre to operate a one-way system as well as the pedestrianisation of the Bow Street shopping precinct.{{Cite web |url=http://www.planningni.gov.uk/index/policy/dev_plans/devplans_az/bmap_2015/bmap_district_proposals/bmap_lisburn/bmap_lisburn_city/bmap_lisburn_city_transportation.htm |title=Planning Service: BMAP 2015. Transportation in Lisburn |access-date=31 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719200354/http://www.planningni.gov.uk/index/policy/dev_plans/devplans_az/bmap_2015/bmap_district_proposals/bmap_lisburn/bmap_lisburn_city/bmap_lisburn_city_transportation.htm |archive-date=19 July 2011 |url-status=live }} In addition to this, a feeder road leading from Milltown on the outskirts of Belfast to Ballymacash in north Lisburn, was opened in 2006. This route connects with the A512 and permits traffic from Lisburn to easily access the M1 at junction 3 (Dunmurry) thus relieving pressure on the southern approaches to the city.{{cite web|url=http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/roads/northlisburnfeederroad.html|title=North Lisburn Feeder Road – Northern Ireland Roads|publisher=Northern Ireland Books|access-date=31 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204043450/http://wesleyjohnston.com/roads/northlisburnfeederroad.html|archive-date=4 December 2010|url-status=live}}

The Lagan Canal passes through Lisburn. This connected the port of Belfast to Lough Neagh, reaching Lisburn in 1763 (although the full route to Lough Neagh was not complete until 1793). Prior to World War II the canal was an important transportation route for goods, averaging over 307,000 tons of coal per year in the 1920s. Following competition from road transport, the canal was formally closed to navigation in 1958, and grew derelict. A short stretch and lock in front of Lisburn Council offices was restored to use in 2001.{{cite web|url=http://lagancanaltrust.org/lock12.html|title=Lagan Canal Trust|publisher=Lagan Canal Trust|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103172004/http://www.lagancanaltrust.org/lock12.html|archive-date=3 January 2015|df=dmy-all}}

Lisburn is served by National Cycle Route 9, connecting the city with Belfast with Newry.{{cite web|url=https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/belfast-to-lisburn-lagan-towpath-route-9|title=Belfast to Lisburn, Lagan Towpath (Route 9)|publisher=Sustrans|access-date=21 November 2022}}

File:Market Square, Lisburn - geograph.org.uk - 1253560.jpg

Bow Street Mall, on Bow Street, houses over 60 stores, many eateries (including a food court).{{cite web|url=https://www.northernirelandworld.com/news/bow-street-mall-celebrates-anniversary-2693316|title=Bow Street Mall celebrates anniversary|date=25 June 2013|newspaper=Northern Ireland World|access-date=21 November 2022}} Sprucefield Shopping Centre and Sprucefield Retail Park are two large retail parks located just outside the city centre.{{cite web|url=https://completelyretail.co.uk/scheme/4686|title=Sprucefield Retail Park|publisher=Completely Retail| access-date=21 November 2022}}

Townlands are traditional land divisions used in Ireland. As well as Lisnagarvy, Lisburn covers all or part of the following townlands.{{cite web |title=Lisnagarvy Townland |url=https://www.townlands.ie/antrim/massereene-upper/blaris-antrim-portion/lisburn/lisnagarvy/ |website=Townlands.ie |access-date=12 January 2023}}

County Antrim:

• Aghalislone ({{derive|ga|Achadh Lios Luain|field of Luan's fort}}){{cite web |title=Aghalislone |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A25133 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Aghnahough (from Achadh na hUamha, 'field of the cave'){{cite web |title=Aghnahough |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A25147 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Ballymacoss or Ballymacash (from Baile Mhic Coise, 'MacCoise's townland'){{cite web |title=Ballymacoss |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A25191 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Clogher (from Clochar, 'stony place'){{cite web |title=Clogher |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A25172 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Knockmore (from An Cnoc Mór, 'the great hill'){{cite web |title=Knockmore |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A24230 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Lambeg (from Lann Bheag, 'little church'){{cite web |title=Lambeg |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A22946 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Lissue or Teraghafeeva (from Lios Áedha, 'Áed's fort' and Tír Átha Fiodhach, 'wooded land of the ford'){{cite web |title=Lissue or Teraghafeeva |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A10336 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Magheralave (from Machaire Shléibhe, 'plain of the mountain grass' or Machaire Léimh, 'plain of the elms'){{cite web |title=Magheralave |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A17956 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Old Warren
• Tonagh (from An Tamhnach, 'the grassy field'){{cite web |title=Tonagh |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A25564 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}

County Down:

• Blaris (from Bláras, a field or battlefield){{cite web |title=Blaris |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A9268 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Ballintine (from Baile an tSiáin, 'townland of the fairy mound'){{cite web |title=Ballintine |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A21121 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Ballymullan (from Baile Uí Mhaoláin, 'O'Mullan's townland'){{cite web |title=Ballymullan |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A21637 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Largymore (from An Leargaidh Mhór, 'the big slope'){{cite web |title=Largymore |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A10670 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}
• Magherageery (from Machaire na gCaorach, 'plain of the sheep'){{cite web |title=Magherageery |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?data_id=dataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A22454 |website=Northern Ireland Place-Names Project |access-date=12 January 2023}}

As with the rest of the British Isles, Lisburn experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. The nearest official Met Office weather station for which online records are available is at Hillsborough.{{cite web | publisher = MetOffice | url = http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/networks/images/climnet5_jan2001.gif | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010702202452/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/networks/images/climnet5_jan2001.gif | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2001-07-02 | title = Station Locations}}

Averaged over the period 1971–2000 the warmest day of the year at Hillsborough will reach {{convert|24.3|C|F}},{{cite web

|url= http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=TXx&stationid=1820

|title= 1971–2000 average warmest day

|access-date= 23 September 2011

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120526092823/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=TXx&stationid=1820

|archive-date= 26 May 2012

|url-status= live

}} although 9 out of 10 years should record a temperature of {{convert|25.1|C|F}} or above.{{cite web

|url= http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=SU&stationid=1820

|title= 25c days

|access-date= 23 September 2011

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120526092846/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=SU&stationid=1820

|archive-date= 26 May 2012

|url-status= live

}}

Averaged over the same period, the coldest night of the year typically falls to {{convert|-6.0|C|F}}{{cite web

|url= http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=TNn&stationid=1820

|title= average coldest night

|access-date= 22 September 2011

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120526092852/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=TNn&stationid=1820

|archive-date= 26 May 2012

|url-status= live

}} and on 37 nights air frost was observed.{{cite web

|url= http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=FD&stationid=1820

|title= air frost incidence

|access-date= 23 September 2011

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120526092857/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=FD&stationid=1820

|archive-date= 26 May 2012

|url-status= live

}}

Typically annual rainfall falls just short of 900 mm, with at least 1 mm falling on 154 days of the year.{{cite web

|url= http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=RR1&stationid=1820

|title= Wet days

|access-date= 23 September 2011

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120526092922/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=RR1&stationid=1820

|archive-date= 26 May 2012

|url-status= live

}}

Water can be supplied from Dams and nearby rivers thanks to the rainfall and mountains. In the 19th Century, Duncan's Dam provided the town with water and now serves as a free public park.{{cite web | title=A Look Into Lisburn's Water Resources | work=Lisburn Miscellany (by Fred Kee, Lisburn Historical Society, 1976) | url=http://www.lisburn.com/books/lisburn_miscellany/miscellany_3.html#Water | access-date=2008-07-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809141046/http://lisburn.com/books/lisburn_miscellany/miscellany_3.html#Water | archive-date=9 August 2017 | url-status=live }}

{{Weather box

|location = Hillsborough climate station (91m elevation) 1981–2010 averages

|collapsed =

|metric first = y

|single line = y

|Jan record high C = 14.7

|Feb record high C = 15.8

|Mar record high C = 19.4

|Apr record high C = 22.8

|May record high C = 23.8

|Jun record high C = 28.1

|Jul record high C = 29.5

|Aug record high C = 28.4

|Sep record high C = 24.5

|Oct record high C = 21.1

|Nov record high C = 15.8

|Dec record high C = 14.5

|year record high C = 29.5

|Jan high C = 7.1

|Feb high C = 7.3

|Mar high C = 9.2

|Apr high C = 11.4

|May high C = 14.4

|Jun high C = 16.8

|Jul high C = 18.6

|Aug high C = 18.2

|Sep high C = 16.0

|Oct high C = 12.6

|Nov high C = 9.4

|Dec high C = 7.4

|year high C = 12.4

|Jan low C = 1.7

|Feb low C = 1.5

|Mar low C = 2.7

|Apr low C = 3.8

|May low C = 6.2

|Jun low C = 9.0

|Jul low C = 10.9

|Aug low C = 10.8

|Sep low C = 9.1

|Oct low C = 6.6

|Nov low C = 3.9

|Dec low C = 2.0

|year low C = 5.7

|Jan record low C = -12.2

|Feb record low C = -7.8

|Mar record low C = -10.0

|Apr record low C = -4.9

|May record low C = -3.3

|Jun record low C = 0.0

|Jul record low C = 2.5

|Aug record low C = 1.8

|Sep record low C = -1.2

|Oct record low C = -4.5

|Nov record low C = -8.3

|Dec record low C = -11.5

|year record low C = -12.2

|Jan rain mm = 83.5

|Feb rain mm = 58.9

|Mar rain mm = 70.7

|Apr rain mm = 59.1

|May rain mm = 60.3

|Jun rain mm = 67.8

|Jul rain mm = 71.4

|Aug rain mm = 85.4

|Sep rain mm = 76.0

|Oct rain mm = 92.8

|Nov rain mm = 90.1

|Dec rain mm = 85.6

|year rain mm = 901.8

|unit rain days= 1.0 mm

|Jan rain days = 14.4

|Feb rain days = 11.6

|Mar rain days = 13.9

|Apr rain days = 11.5

|May rain days = 11.8

|Jun rain days = 11.7

|Jul rain days = 12.2

|Aug rain days = 12.8

|Sep rain days = 12.0

|Oct rain days = 14.4

|Nov rain days = 14.1

|Dec rain days = 14.4

|year rain days = 154.8

| Jan sun = 46.0

| Feb sun = 71.9

| Mar sun = 105.9

| Apr sun = 151.7

| May sun = 195.4

| Jun sun = 165.3

| Jul sun = 158.3

| Aug sun = 151.1

| Sep sun = 123.0

| Oct sun = 96.5

| Nov sun = 61.3

| Dec sun = 38.4

| year sun = 1364.8

|source 1 = metoffice.gov.uk{{cite web

| url=https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-climate-averages/gcetvdenx

| title=Climate Normals 1981–2010

| publisher=Met Office

| access-date=26 March 2021}}

| date=26 March 2021

|source 2 = KNMI

}}

File:Panoramic view of Lagan Valley Hospital, Lisburn 2014-04-18 03-33.jpg

The main hospital in the city is the Lagan Valley Hospital, which provides Accident and Emergency services to the area. The hospital lost its acute services in 2006. Residents now must travel to Belfast for acute surgery. The Lagan Valley lost its 24-hour A&E from 1 August 2011 due to a shortage of Junior Doctors. It will now instead be open 9:00 am – 8:00 pm and will be closed on weekends. This has caused much controversy as residents of the city will now have to travel to Belfast or Craigavon.{{cite news|last=Smyth|first=Lisa|title=Fury as Lagan Valley Hospital A&E shuts at night|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/fury-as-lagan-valley-hospital-aande-shuts-at-night-28640283.html|newspaper=Belfast Telegraph|date=27 July 2011|access-date=1 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030163523/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/fury-as-lagan-valley-hospital-aande-shuts-at-night-28640283.html|archive-date=30 October 2013|url-status=live}} Primary care in the area is provided by the Lisburn Health Centre, which opened in 1977.{{cite web|url=http://www.lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume2/volume2_4.html |title=Health and Wealth in the Borough of Lisburn. By E. J. Best |publisher=Lisburn Historical Society (Vol. 2) |access-date=1 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061025171806/http://www.lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume2/volume2_4.html |archive-date=25 October 2006 }} The city lies within the South Eastern Health and Social Care Board area.{{cite web|url=https://www.communityni.org/organisation/south-eastern-health-and-social-care-trust|title=South Eastern Health And Social Care Trust|publisher=Community Northern Ireland|access-date=21 November 2022}}

In November 2012 the Award of 2013 European City of Sport was officially handed over to Lisburn at a presentation ceremony at the European Parliament in Brussels.{{cite news|url=https://www.northernirelandworld.com/sport/lisburn-is-european-city-of-sport-2715443|title=Lisburn is European City of Sport|newspaper=Northern Ireland World|date=18 January 2013|access-date=21 November 2022}}

• Lisburn Distillery is an association football club playing in the NIFL Championship and based at Ballyskeagh, on the outskirts of the city.{{cite news |last=Sherrard |first=Chris |date=28 August 2019 |title=Lisburn Distillery manager Hatfield wants players to thrive under promotion pressure this season |publisher=Belfast Live |url=https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/lisburn-distillery-manager-hatfield-wants-16829374 |access-date=2 December 2019}}
• Ballymacash Rangers F.C. play in the Mid-Ulster Football League.{{cite web | url=https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ballymacash-rangers-appoint-lee-forsythe-19098114 | title=Ballymacash Rangers appoint Lee Forsythe as new manager | date=13 October 2020 }}
• Lisburn Rangers F.C. play in the Northern Amateur Football League.[http://www.irishfa.com/the-ifa/news/5078/official-opening-of-lisburn-rangers-new-facilities/ Official opening of Lisburn Rangers' new facilities] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090828083821/http://www.irishfa.com/the-ifa/news/5078/official-opening-of-lisburn-rangers-new-facilities/ |date=2009-08-28 }}, Irish Football Association, 4.8.09 [Accessed 3.9.09]
• Downshire Young Men F.C. play in the Northern Amateur Football League.{{cite web|url=https://www.thenafl.co.uk/teams/id/19|title=Downshire Young Men F.C.|publisher=Northern Amateur Football League|access-date=21 November 2022}}

• Lisburn Cricket Club{{cite web|url=http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES4/articles/000003/000348.shtml |title=Lisburn launch their 175th anniversary celebrations |publisher=www.cricketeurope.net |accessdate=2011-07-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208175533/http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES4/articles/000003/000348.shtml |archivedate=2011-02-08 }}
• Lisburn Racquets Club{{cite news|url=https://www.northernirelandworld.com/news/state-of-the-art-extension-opens-at-lisburn-racquets-club-2581274|title=State-of-the-art extension opens at Lisburn Racquets Club|date=7 June 2015|newspaper=Northern Ireland World|access-date=21 November 2022}}
• St. Patrick's GAA{{cite web|url=https://antrim.gaa.ie/clubs/st-patricks-gac|title=St Patrick's GAC|publisher=Antrim GAA| access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Down Royal Racecourse is located near the city{{cite web |last1=Forristal |work=Racing Post |first1=Richard |title=Down Royal future plunged into uncertainty after management dispute |url=https://www.racingpost.com/news/latest/huge-shock-as-down-royal-racecourse-set-to-close-at-end-of-the-year/349861 |date=17 October 2018}}

• Robert McNeill Alexander (1934–2016) – zoologist.{{cite journal|url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2021.0030|title=Robert McNeill Alexander 7 July 1934—21 March 2016|year=2022 |publisher=The Royal Society|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2021.0030 |access-date=21 November 2022|last1=Alexander |first1=Gordon |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=72 |pages=9–32 |s2cid=245355098 |doi-access=free }}
• David Crystal (1941 – ) – Linguist and author.{{cite web | url=http://www.cambridge.org/uk/linguistics/crystal/about_the_author.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060319110035/http://www.cambridge.org/uk/linguistics/crystal/about_the_author.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=19 March 2006 | title=All About...The Author | publisher=Cambridge University Press | access-date=22 May 2015 }}
• Margarita Dawson Stelfox (1866 -1971) – botanist.{{cite book |last1=Praeger |first1=Robert Lloyd |title=Some Irish Naturalists: A Biographical Note-book |date=1949 |publisher=W.Tempest, Dundalgan Press |location=Dundalk |url=http://www.botanicgardens.ie/herb/books/inltos.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123081153/http://www.botanicgardens.ie/herb/books/inltos.htm |access-date=8 November 2020|archive-date=2015-01-23 }}

• Vivian Campbell (1962 – ) singer-songwriter and musician{{cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/def-leppards-vivian-campbell-i-refuse-to-let-cancer-beat-me-37553033.html|title=Def Leppard's Vivian Campbell: I refuse to let cancer beat me|date=28 November 2018|newspaper=The Belfast Telegraph|access-date=21 November 2022}}
• William H. Conn (1895–1973) – Irish cartoonist, illustrator, water colourist and poster artist.{{cite web|url=http://lisburn.com/books/friends-school/friends-illustrations.htm|title=A History of Friends' School, Lisburn|publisher=Lisburn.com| access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Sam Cree (1928–1980) – playwright.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8ZlAAAAMAAJ|title=The End: An Illustrated Guide to the Graves of Irish Writers|first= Ray|last= Bateson|year=2004|page=44|publisher=Irish Graves Publications|isbn=978-0954227517}}
• Anna Cheyne (1926–2002) – artist and sculptor.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsRPAAAAMAAJ|title=Who's who in Art|volume=30|year=2002|page=104|publisher=Art Trade Press|isbn=9780900083198 }}
• Richard Dormer (1969– ) – actor. playwright, screenwriter{{cite news|url=https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/lisburn-actor-richard-dormer-speaks-8772856|title=Lisburn actor Richard Dormer speaks about landing the lead in Sky Atlantic £25m show Fortitude|date=4 March 2015|newspaper=Belfast Live|access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Duke Special (1971 – ) – singer-songwriter.{{cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/duke-special-i-have-experienced-the-dark-clouds-and-looked-into-the-abyss-many-times-now-im-really-content-36193210.html|title=Duke Special: I have experienced the dark clouds and looked into the abyss many times ... now I'm really content|date=4 October 2017|newspaper=The Belfast Telegraph| access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Samuel McCloy (1831–1904) – Irish painter{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA449|title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers|first1= Ray |last1=Desmond|first2=Christine|last2= Ellwood |year= 1994|publisher=Taylor & Francis|page=449|isbn=978-0850668438}}
• Stefana McClure (1959 – ) – visual artist{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugBQAAAAMAAJ |title=Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection|first= Kavie |last=Barnes|year= 2002|page=112|publisher=Krannert Art Museum|isbn=978-0295982854}}
• Kristian Nairn (1975 – ) – film actor, DJ{{cite news|url=https://www.irishnews.com/arts/2016/04/22/news/belfast-game-of-thrones-star-kristian-nairn-don-t-mention-snow-491531/|title=Lisburn Game of Thrones star Kristian Nairn: Don't mention Jon Snow|date=22 April 2016|newspaper=The Irish News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424115231/https://www.irishnews.com/arts/2016/04/22/news/belfast-game-of-thrones-star-kristian-nairn-don-t-mention-snow-491531/ |archive-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}
• Dennis H Osborne (1919–2016) -artist{{cite web|url=https://nimc.co.uk/whats-on/event/1116/dennis-h-osborne-artist-an-appreciation/|title=Dennis H Osborne Artist: An Appreciation|publisher=Northern Ireland Museums Council| access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Donna Traynor (1965 – ) – television journalist{{cite news|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/actually-im-a-better-nurse-than-i-thought-i-would-be-13453555.html|work=Belfast Telegraph|title='Actually, I'm a better nurse than I thought I'd be'|date=26 June 2007|publisher=Media Huis|accessdate=18 April 2013}}
• Sir Richard Wallace (1818–1890) – Lisburn and district landlord, MP, art collector (the Wallace Collection, London).{{cite web|url=http://lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume4/volume4-1.html|title=Aspects of the legacy of Sir Richard Wallace in the fabric of Lisburn|first= Hugh|last= Dixon|publisher=Lisburn.com| access-date=21 November 2022}}

• John Doherty Barbour (1824–1901) – industrialist and politician.{{cite web|url=http://www.lisburn.com/books/historical_society/volume5/volume5-6.html|title=A Portrait of John Doherty Barbour 1824-1901|publisher=Lisburn.com|first=T.|last=Neill|access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Michael Deane (1961 – ) – chef, restaurateur{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wNilDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT209|title=Ireland |publisher= Insight Guides|year=2019|isbn=978-1839051241}}
• Henry Musgrave (1827–1922) – industrialist and philanthropist[http://www.hevac-heritage.org/victorian_engineers/musgrave%27s/musgrave%27s.htm A History of the Musgrave Family in Belfast] by FJ Ferris of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
• John Grubb Richardson (1813–1891) – linen merchant, industrialist and philanthropist{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9CrlUHICHTIC&pg=PA152|title=The Linen Houses of the Bann Valley: The Story of Their Families|first= Kathleen |last=Rankin |year=2007|page=152|publisher=Ulster Historical Foundation|isbn=978-1903688700}}
• Alexander Turney Stewart (1803–1876) – American retail entrepreneur.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RwgmFWb6LR4C&pg=PA35|title=The American Presence in Ulster: A Diplomatic History, 1796-1996|first= Francis M.|last= Carroll |year=2005|page=35|publisher=Catholic University of America Press|isbn=978-0813214207}}
• William Workman (1807–1878) – Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist.{{cite news|url=https://www.northernirelandworld.com/sport/nostalgia/one-familys-journey-from-ballymacash-to-canada-2791346|title=One family's journey from Ballymacash to Canada|date=22 August 2011|newspaper=Northern Ireland World| access-date=21 November 2022}}

• David Adams (1953 – ) – senior Ulster Democratic Party leader.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/uda-blamed-for-attacks-on-loyalist-politicians-1.505552|title=UDA blamed for attacks on loyalist politicians|date=20 October 2003|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=21 November 2022}}
• William Armstrong (1782–1865) – U.S. Representative from Virginia{{cite book |editor-last1 = Munske |editor-first1 = Roberta R. |editor-last2 = Kerns |editor-first2 = Wilmer L. |year = 2004 |title = Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1754–2004 |publisher = The Hampshire County 250th Anniversary Committee |location = Romney, West Virginia |isbn = 978-0-9715738-2-6 |oclc = 55983178|page=46 }}
• John Milne Barbour, (1868–1951) – Ulster Unionist, Northern Ireland cabinet minister.{{cite web|url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/biographies.html |title=Northern Ireland Parliamentary Biographies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612202552/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/biographies.html |archive-date=12 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}
• Humphrey Bland (1686–1763) – Lieutenant General{{cite web|url=https://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/gibraltar/humphreybland.htm|title=Humphrey Bland|publisher=British Empire| access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Ernest Blythe (1889–1975) – Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Free State cabinet minister.{{cite web|url=https://www.historyireland.com/ernest-blythe-orangeman-fenian/|title=Ernest Blythe—Orangeman and Fenian|publisher=History Ireland| access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Samuel Cowan (1941 – ) Quartermaster-General to the Forces, writer.{{cite web|url=http://www.burkespeerage.com/familyhomepage.aspx?FID=0&FN=COWAN|title= Burke's Peerage and Gentry|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716064534/http://www.burkespeerage.com/familyhomepage.aspx?FID=0&FN=COWAN|archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}
• Robert Lindsay Crawford (1868–1945), first Grand Master, Independent Orange Order; Irish Free State trade representative, New York.{{cite web |last1=Dempsey |first1=Pauric |last2=Boylan |first2=Shaun |title=Crawford, (Robert) Lindsay |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/crawford-robert-lindsay-a2163 |website=Dictionary of Irish Biography |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=14 December 2020}}
• William Crossley (1844–1911) – engineer and Liberal MP{{cite web|url=https://www.cumbrianlives.org.uk/lives/sir-william-crossley.html|title=Sir William Crossley (1844-1911)|publisher=Cumbrian Lives| access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Jim Hanna (1947–1974) – senior Ulster Volunteer Force leader{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6mPDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT76|title=UVF: The Endgame|first1= Henry |last1=McDonald|first2= Jim|last2= Cusack |year= 2016|publisher=Poolbeg Press|isbn=978-1842233269}}
• John Jeffers (1822–1890) – member of the Wisconsin State Assembly{{cite web|url=http://genealogytrails.com/wis/walworth/bios_pg3.html#J|title=Walworth County Wisconsin Biographies J|publisher=Wisconsin Genealogy Trails|access-date=2015-07-16}}
• [https://www.dib.ie/biography/jones-william-todd-a4348 William Todd Jones] (1757–1818) – Lisburn MP, supporter of Catholic emancipation and reform.
• Gertrude Keightley (1864–1929) – first woman Poor Law guardian and magistrate{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/keightley-gertrude-emily-a4431|title=Keightley, Gertrude Emily|publisher=Dictionary of Irish Biography| access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Gary McMichael (1969 – ) – Ulster Democratic Party leader.{{Cite web |url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/people/biography/mcpeople.htm#mcmichael |title=Biography on CAIN website |access-date=6 March 2008 |archive-date=6 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206103650/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/people/biography/mcpeople.htm#mcmichael |url-status=live }}
• John McMichael (1948–1987) – senior Ulster Defence Association leader.{{cite web |url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/victims/humanface/chron/1987.html |title=CAIN: Conflict Archive on the Internet: Human Face: 1987 |publisher=Cain.ulst.ac.uk |access-date=14 July 2011 |archive-date=18 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018110001/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/victims/humanface/chron/1987.html |url-status=live }}
• St. Clair Augustine Mulholland (1839–1910) Union officer, American Civil War{{Catholic|wstitle=St. Clair Augustine Mulholland}}
• Henry Munro (1758–1798) – executed United Irish leader{{Cite web |last=Lisburn Standard, 1 June 1917 |title=Some Extracts from the Records of Old Lisburn, Edited by James Carson. Lisburn Standard 28 December 1895 |url=https://eddiesextracts.com/lsextracts/ls19170600.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010132849/https://eddiesextracts.com/lsextracts/ls19170600.html |archive-date=2021-10-10 |access-date=2021-10-10 |website=eddiesextracts.com}}
• Francis Seymour (1813 -1890) – Crimean War veteran and royal courtier.{{cite encyclopedia|last1=Lloyd|first1=E. M.|last2=Falkner|first2=James|editor1-first=James|editor1-last=Falkner|year=2004|title=Seymour, Sir Francis, First Baronet (1813–1890)|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/25168}}
• Ray Smallwoods (1949–1994) – assassinated senior Ulster Defence Association leader{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ulster-awaits-backlash-after-ira-guns-down-loyalist-1413256.html|title=Ulster awaits backlash after IRA guns down loyalist|date=11 July 1994|newspaper=The Independent| access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Malcolm Stevenson (1878–1927) – colonial governor.{{cite web|url=https://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/cyprus/malcolmstevenson.htm|title=Sir Malcolm Stevenson KCMG|publisher=British Empire|access-date=21 November 2022}}
• Batholomew Teeling (1774–1798) – executed United Irish leader{{cite web| title=Teeling, Bartholomew

| work=Dictionary of Irish Biography| url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/teeling-bartholomew-a8484 | accessdate=6 November 2021}}

• Charles Teeling (1778–1848) – United Irishman and journalist{{cite web|title=Teeling, Charles Hamilton|last=Woods|first=C.J.|date=23 May 2020|work=Dictionary of Irish Biography|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/teeling-charles-hamilton-a8486|access-date=28 May 2020}}
• Robert Traill (1793–1847) – clergyman, relief organiser in the Great Famine.{{cite web|last1=Newman|first1=Kate|title=Robert Traill|url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/printPerson/1649|website=Dictionary of Ulster Biography|accessdate=5 October 2017}}
• David Trimble (1944–2022) – Ulster Unionist First Minister of Northern Ireland, Conservative Peer.{{cite news|url=https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/funeral-service-for-david-trimble-starts-in-lisburn-3789257|title=Funeral service for David Trimble starts in Lisburn|date=1 August 2022|newspaper=Newsletter| access-date=21 November 2022}}

• Damien Johnson – Northern Irish, international footballer.{{cite web|url=https://www.irishfa.com/news/2020/august/watch-damien-johnson-on-his-return-to-northern-ireland-set-up|title= Damien Johnson|publisher=Irish Football Association|access-date=22 November 2022}}
• Mary Peters – athlete.{{cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/queens-highest-honour-for-mary-peters-38227371.html/|title=Queen's highest honour for Mary Peters|first=Claire|last=McNeilly|publisher=Belfast Telegraph|date=18 June 2019|access-date=9 January 2022|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618100939/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/queens-highest-honour-for-mary-peters-38227371.html/|archive-date=18 June 2019}}
• Jonny Ross, bowler{{cite web|url=http://www.taylorbowls.com/team-taylor/jonathan-ross|title=Jonathan Ross|publisher=Taylor Bowls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103234651/http://www.taylorbowls.com/team-taylor/jonathan-ross |archive-date=3 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}
• James Tennyson, professional boxer{{cite web|url=https://www.northernirelandworld.com/sport/boxing/celtic-joy-for-james-as-local-lad-takes-the-title-2590907|title=Celtic joy for James as local lad takes the title|date=5 April 2015|newspaper=Northern Ireland World| access-date=22 November 2022}}
• Alan McDonald – Northern Irish, international footballer.{{cite web|url=https://www.indyrs.co.uk/2013/06/alan-mcdonald-in-memory-of-a-true-qpr-legend/|title=Alan McDonald – In Memory of a True QPR Legend|date=23 June 2013|newspaper=Independent R's| access-date=22 November 2022}}

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