Author Archives: Ian Adamson

  Bangor 400: A Celebration  of Bangor in poetry and prose. Novelists, historians, saints and scholars have been writing about Bangor for centuries. Now the man behind the creation of Aspects twenty-two years ago, Kenneth Irvine, has recruited some of our top … Continue reading →

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Unsubscribe from this newsletter The Lord Mayor, Councillor Máirtín Ó Muilleoir and Belfast City Council request the pleasure of the company of   Dr Ian Adamson OBE and Mrs Helen Brooker at a Dinner in Belfast City Hall Saturday 28 September … Continue reading →

Today I accompanied our Chair of the Academy of Common Identity (Ullans) Helen Brooker to see Ken Perry, Principal of Dundonald High School. We had met him at a Community Event organised by the Ballybeen Men’s Motivation Group and was introduced … Continue reading →

The Royal British Legion requested city hall be lit red for the launch of the Poppy Appeal Belfast’s Sinn Féin Lord Mayor is to back a Royal British Legion request to have the city hall bathed in red light for … Continue reading →

Writing in the local newspaper the Belfast Telegraph on Friday 21st September 2013, Henry McDonald wrote of an Ulster Defense Association mural on nationality at Freedom Corner on the Lower Newtownards Road, Belfast: Analysing the responses of the Protestant working class to … Continue reading →

This year Queen Elizabeth II celebrated the 61st year of her accession to the British throne, making her one of the longest reigning monarchs in British history and the longest serving since the death of Queen Victoria, her great, great grandmother … Continue reading →

The Macnaghtens (MacNaughtons or MacNachtens ) are descended from the eighth century Caledonian Cruthin or Pictish King Nechtan.The earliest reference to the MacNaghtens is in connection with great Pictish Rulers of Moray. The name ‘Nechten’ which means “pure” or “clear” was popular … Continue reading →

The House of Stewart or Stuart, from whom William and Mary and our present Queen Elizabeth II are ultimately descended, had its origins  in Alan fitz Flaald (born 1070, died in 1114)  Alan was of the Breton or Old British nobility and held the feudal … Continue reading →