On Saturday 28 September 1912 the industrial heart of Belfast city was still. The great shipyards were silent; the looms were idle in the linen mills; the rope works and the foundries were deserted. At eleven o’clock, Religious services to invoke divine aid and to encourage signatures were held throughout in Protestant churches across the…
The Apprentice Boys of Derry Association is a Christian, historical and cultural organisation, committed to maintaining the spirit of courage and liberty displayed by the Defenders of Londonderry in 1688-1689 The full title of the organisation is the “Associated Clubs of the Apprentice Boys of Derry”. This is derived from the fact that the organisation…
“28TH OF JULY, 1689! A day to be remembered with thanksgiving by the besieged in Derry as long as they live; for on this day we were delivered from famine and slavery.”
Being on the Twelfth day of July, eighteen and forty-nine,The Pagans of this country together did combine,To shoot and slay our Orangemen upon that glorious day,They did encamp in thousands great at a place called Dolly’s Brae. Lord Roden was Grandmaster of the Orangemen just then,No better chieftain could be found among the sons of…
Following the relief of Londonderry and their defeat at Newtownbutler by the Enniskilleners the Jacobites withdrew from the west of Ulster. The forces of the Duke of Schomberg landed in Bangor August 1689 O.S. and quickly laid siege to and took Carrickfergus Castle. Being unsatisfied with Schomberg’s slow progress King William III landed in Carrickfergus…
The IRA’s deadly attack on the Protestant community at Altnaveigh in south Armagh in June 1922 was one of the most brutal acts of sectarian violence in the wake of partition “I didn’t expect that of you, Willie” The last words of the elderly Elizabeth Crozier after her husband had just been murdered by IRA…