Monthly Archives: November 2015

Eddie Irvine Alastair Seeley  Jeremy Mc Williams   Two worlds – ancient and modern – collided today, Sunday 22nd November, 2015, when St Columbanus, the Patron Saint Of Bikers, was celebrated at Eddie Irvine Sports, Balloo Road, Bangor. F1 legend Eddie … Continue reading →

I was greatly honoured that Professor Fréchet should take an interest in my work. Commenting on my Identity of Ulster, published under my own imprint, Pretani Press in 1982. he was to write: “What an interesting, curious piece of work … Continue reading →

Whiteabbey Masonic Centre     Remembrance Group  “Remembering our fallen Masonic Brothers and Heroes since 1914” Remembrance Day Service  11th November 2015  Conducted by Revd Campbell B Dixon MA MBE Order of Service All stand Sentences of Scripture: Psalm 46.1 God … Continue reading →

Remembrance Service, Ulster Reform Club A service of remembrance was held by the War Memorials in the Reading Room at 11am, on Wednesday, 11th November, led by Club Members, The Right Reverend Christopher Wilson, The Reverend Stewart Heaney and The … Continue reading →

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 →

One of the high points of the speech given by Erskine Holmes O.B.E., Chair of the Co-operative Forum, at their Conference held in Trinity College, Dublin on Friday 30th and Saturday 31st July, 2010, From Plunkett to the Credit Crunch, … Continue reading →

In 1894 Horace Plunkett founded the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (IOAS), with himself as president and the young land-agent, Robert Andrew Anderson as secretary. Two prominent allies were Lord Monteagle in Limerick and Rev. Thomas Finlay, Professor of Moral Philosophy … Continue reading →

On 30th July 2010 I addressed the conference of the Co-operative Forum at Trinity College, Dublin, which had the theme “From Plunkett to the Credit Crunch”. Horace Plunkett was the founding father of the Co-operative Movement in Ireland. The republican-left Labour Party … Continue reading →

My favourite predecessor as High Sheriff of Belfast was the great Loyalist hero, Tommy Henderson. Thomas Gibson Henderson (13 October 1887 – 14 August 1970) was an Ulster Independent Unionist. He served in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland … Continue reading →