Author Archives: Ian Adamson

The ‘Tyninghame’ copy of the “Declaration” from 1320 AD Alongside the battles and bloodshed of the Scottish “Wars of Independence” in north Britain there was also a diplomatic struggle – a war of words and propaganda. The two Norman warlords the “Scottish” … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, 23rd and Wednesday 24th March, 2010, following Turkish Victory Day on 18th March and as part of a Pilgrimage to the Dardanelles to commemorate the 95th Anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign (Çanakkale Savaşlari), the Somme Association held two … Continue reading →

President Higgins lays a wreath to Mr O’Donovan Rossa   Today, as Vice-President of the Somme Association, President of the Ullans Academy and Patron of the Dalaradia organisation, I attended, with a senior colleague, the State Commemoration of the funeral of … 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 →

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 →