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Anthony Peter William Malcomson (born 12 March 1945) is an archivist and historian specialising in the history of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy. He was educated at Campbell College, Belfast, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He completed his post graduate studies at Queen's University and was awarded his Ph.D. in history in 1970. Most of his ...
Éamon Phoenix attended St Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast [5] and subsequently Queen’s University Belfast. He was awarded a B.A. (Hons) in History followed by a Ph.D. in 1983. The topic of his PhD thesis was Irish nationalism. [6] He taught history at St Michael's College, Enniskillen and then at St Malachy's College, Belfast
Blue plaque for James Magennis in Belfast. The Ulster History Circle is a heritage organisation that administers Blue Plaques for the area that encompasses the province of Ulster on the island of Ireland. It is a voluntary, not-for-profit organisation, placing commemorative plaques in public places in honour of people and locations that have ...
Martha "Matty" McTier (1742/1743 – 3 October 1837) was an advocate in Belfast, Ireland for women's health and education, and a supporter of democratic reform. Her correspondence with her brother William Drennan [1] and with other leading United Irishmen documents the political radicalism and tumult of late eighteenth-century Ulster.
MacAdam was born to Jane Shipboy (1774–1827) and her husband James MacAdam (1755–1821), who lived next to their hardware shop in High Street, Belfast. [2] Before being apprenticed to his father, he was educated at the new Belfast Academical Institution, a school founded on progressive principles by the former United Irishman William Drennan, and other veterans of the radical politics of ...
Mary Ann McCracken (8 July 1770 – 26 July 1866) was a social activist and campaigner in Belfast, Ireland, whose extensive correspondence is cited as an important chronicle of her times.
Richard Rutledge Kane (1841–1898) was a Church of Ireland minister, an outspoken Irish unionist and Orangeman, and an early patron of the Gaelic League.A dominant personality in the life of Belfast, his funeral procession in 1898 was purportedly one of the largest seen in the city.
Henry Cassidy Midgley, PC (NI), known as Harry Midgley (1893 – 29 April 1957) was a prominent trade-unionist and politician in Northern Ireland. [1] Born to a working-class Protestant family in Tiger's Bay, north Belfast, he followed his father into the shipyard.