Author Archives: Ian Adamson

      Van Morrison – 21st & 22nd January 2014   This is the third year in a row Van Morrison has played a series of concerts at Culloden Estate & Spa, on the stage where he recorded his … Continue reading →

http://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/military-service-pensions-collection Today I attended the launch on line of material from the Military Service Pensions Collection by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny. The Military Service Pensions Collection consists of approximately 300,000 paper files, with a number of maps,drawings and diagrams. The … Continue reading →

Mr. Eamon Gilmore, T.D.  Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade   requests the pleasure of the company of  Dr. Ian Adamson  at the launch of the digitisation of Ireland’s World War 1 Memorial Records,   in the presence of First … Continue reading →

Tonight, as President of the Ullans Academy, I accompanied our Chair Helen Brooker along with two of our directors, Ruairi O Bleine and Des Meredith, to the opening of a new Gaelic language centre in east Belfast.   The Turas (Journey) centre, based in … Continue reading →

On this day, 40 years ago, at the age of 29, I published my first book Cruthin – the Ancient Kindred, which I had written in 2 Watson Street, Sandy Row, Belfast.  I had studied the Cruthin since childhood in Bangor Grammar … Continue reading →

Granny Isabella Sloan was born in Conlig, County Down, Ireland, at the end of the nineteenth century, when they still spoke Scotch in our village, of which we are extremely proud. She went to Scotland during the Great War to work in … Continue reading →

A Blythe Yule an a Guid New Yeir tae yin an aa…Lang may yer lum reek wi ither fowk’s coal (Ulster-Scots)… A Happy Christmas and a Good New Year to one and all…Long may your chimney smoke with other people’s … Continue reading →

NewBelfast.com Blog of Belfast’s Lord Mayor, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir Follow Máirtín on Twitter and LinkedIn    Ba mhaith liom Nollaig mhór mhaith a ghuí oraibh uilig agus bliain úr faoi mhaise.  Wishing all Friends of Belfast a Happy Christmas and a … Continue reading →

On the invitation of the British and Irish Governments I was honoured, as Chairman of the Somme Association, to attend this visit to the Island of Ireland Peace Park in Mesen (Messines) and the Menin Gate in Ieper (Ypres). PRIME MINISTER DAVID … Continue reading →

S. Llolan, another Briton who laboured in the Forth area, is represented by the Scotic Churchmen of the fourteenth century as ‘a nephew’ of the unhistorical Servanus. He certainly took up the work of the historical Servanus or Serf, and … Continue reading →