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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 contributed to all genres of history within ...
He was a Trustee of the Ulster Historical Foundation. [14] Awards ... Irish News and 100 Years of Ulster History, 1890s-1990s. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation.
Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, one of the main planners of the Plantation. A colonization of Ulster had been proposed since the end of the Nine Years' War.The original proposals were smaller, involving planting settlers around key military posts and on church land, and would have included large land grants to native Irish lords who sided with the English during the war, such as ...
The Heritage at Risk Register NI (HARNI) is a partnership between Ulster Architectural Heritage and the Historic Environment Division (HED) of the Department for Communities. The primary aims of the HARNI project are to record architecturally and historically important buildings that appear to be at risk, and act as a catalyst for conservation ...
She was a member of the Ulster Archaeological Society, as well as a trustee for both the Ulster Historical Foundation and of the Ulster History Trust. For her contributions to Ulster history and heritage, she was awarded an MBE in 2009. Corcoran died on 3 August 2013. [1] [2]
The term Ulster has no official function for local government purposes in either state. However, for the purposes of ISO 3166-2:IE, Ulster is used to refer to the three counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan only, which are given country sub-division code "IE-U". [14] The name is also used by various organisations such as cultural and sporting ...
From the late 19th century, the majority of people living in Ireland wanted the British government to grant some form of self-rule to Ireland. The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) sometimes held the balance of power in the House of Commons in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a position from which it sought to gain Home Rule, which would have given Ireland autonomy in internal affairs ...
An Ulster History Circle commemorative blue plaque was unveiled in her memory on 14 April 1995 at Bishop Street in the city. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Archbishop Alexander died in 1911, and in 1913 a stained glass window by James Powell and Sons in her memory was installed in the north vestibule of St Columb's Cathedral in Derry , financed by public ...