The minister’s son who was last Lord Chancellor of Ireland
Short biography of Sir John Ross, the last Lord High Chancellor of Ireland.
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The Comber Letter
On it’s own, the Comber Letter could have been taken as a hoax. But when considered in the context of other events at the time, it took a much more sinister turn. If you want to read a little more of this background you can find it here “Protestant Fears in 1688”. In the First…
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Protestant Fears in 1688
Following the death of his brother Charles II, James II became King of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1685. James had one great objective in regard to Ireland and that was to convert it to Roman Catholicism. Roman Catholics benefited, and many obtained considerable estates. The country exhibited a gloomy scene of oppression and dejection,…
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The Battle of Newtownbutler 1689
The Battle of Newtownbutler is one of the forgotten fights of the Irish Jacobite Wars.
Fought before either the Boyne or Aughrim, Newtownbutler was relevant, not because of its size, but because it represented a turning point in the war.
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The Unknown Warrior
The British grave of The Unknown Warrior (often known as ‘The Tomb of The Unknown Warrior’) holds an unidentified British soldier killed on a European battlefield during the First World War. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London on 11 November 1920, simultaneously with a similar interment of a French unknown soldier at the Arc…
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Happy Birthday William of Orange!!!
William Henry III, (Willem Hendrik in Dutch) Prince of Orange was born on 4th November 1650. A Dutchman by birth, part of the House of Orange, he would later reign as King of England, Scotland and Ireland until his death in 1702. William’s reign came at a precarious time in Europe when religious divide dominated…
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The mysterious story of the Unknown Warrior
The grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey contains the remains of an unidentified British serviceman who was interred in 1920 as a way of honouring the fallen of the First World War. The selection of the Unknown Warrior was a secretive event and remains shrouded in mystery to this day. Here curator of…
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History | Poems | World Wars
The Poppy
Red poppies have been worn as a show of support for the Armed Forces community since the Royal British Legion’s formation in 1921. The idea originates from a poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’ by Canadian Doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae when, shortly after losing a friend in Ypres in 1915, he was inspired by the sight…
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An untold story: Belfast Refugees and Liverpool
1971 Belfast Refugees and the Loyalist People of Liverpool A personal story by Stephen Gough. Reproduced by kind permission I first became interested in this story when my partner Susan and her Mum started talking about it one night. I was fascinated as I knew nothing about it. As I listened to them recall the…
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Wording of the Ulster Covenant & Declaration
Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant Being convinced in our consciences that Home Rule would be disastrous to the material well-being of Ulster as well as the whole of Ireland, subversive of our civil and religious freedom, destructive of our citizenship, and perilous to the unity of the Empire, we, whose names are underwritten, men of…
