Monthly Archives: July 2015

The Manapians or Menapii were a tribe of Belgae (Fir Bolg in Gaelic) originating in northern Gaul in pre-Roman and Roman times. According to descriptions in such authors as Strabo, Caesar, Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy  their territory had stretched northwards to the mouth of … Continue reading →

1. Belfast City 333,871   2. North Down and Ards District Dal Fiatach 156,672 3. Antrim and Newtownabbey District Upper Dalaradia 138,567 4. Lisburn City and Castlereagh District Dalmunia 134,841 5. Newry City, Mourne and Down District Iveagh 171,533 6. Armagh City, Banbridge … Continue reading →

Peter Shirlow is a Professor in the School of Law at the Queen’s University of Belfast, now Professor of Conflict Transformation there and a key member of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice (ISCTSJ), which is linked … Continue reading →

The growing economic and political power of the new republicans in  British North America prior to the Revolutionary War proved threatening to other sections of American society, who stayed decidedly Loyalist, including many Catholic Jacobites from the Highlands of Scotland, who … Continue reading →

Perhaps one of the most important pieces of myth-making in recent history has been the article by the Irish-American scholar J.P. Mallory, formerly of the Department of Archaeology, Queen’s University, Belfast..This article named Two perspectives on the problem of Irish Origins … Continue reading →