Speakers and Tour Guides: Update No 1 (August 2010)
The information in these Updates has been incorporated in the main Register. The corrections are mainly to contact details.
Additions – Speakers
| NAME | LOCATION | CONTACT INFORMATION | TOURS | |
| Bishop, Ron | Carrickfergus | (028)93364040 rh.bishop@ulster.ac.uk |
The History of the Medieval St. Nicholas CoI Church in Carrickfergus | |
| Dixon, Roger | Cultra | (028)90428428 | -Francis Joseph Bigger -The Big Houses of Belfast |
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| Gault, Andrew | Belfast | (028)90543151 andrew.gault@doeni.gov.uk |
The Work of the NI Environment Agency’s Historic Monuments Unit | |
| Macdonald, Dr Philip | Belfast | (028)90973767 or (028)90973025 p.mcdonald@qub.ac.uk |
Recent archaeologial excavations in Counties Down and Antrim | |
| McKee, Neville | Templepatrick | (028)94333086 neville.mckee@btinternet.com |
The Copeland Bird Observatory, Lighthouse Island, Co Down and its activities
See also Tour Guides |
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| Tohill, J.J. | Belfast | (028)90666963 | -The Northern Irish in Hollywood -Donegal; a journey round the County in the late 1960s and early 1970s -The Golden era of Ulster’s amateur filmmakers viz. Archie Reid, Roy Spence and Craig Clements Richard Hayward; Ulster’s pioneer filmmaker -The musical years of Jimmy Kennedy |
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Additions – Tour Guides
Hamilton, Roy |
Co. Londonderry |
(028)71346444 |
Tours of Derry City and the North West
See also Speakers |
McKee, Neville |
Templepatrick |
(028)94333086 neville.mckee@btinternet.com |
For parties departure via Donaghadee harbour to the Bird Obseratory on Lighthouse Island in the Copelands. During summer months, weather permitting
See also Speakers |
Corrections
Blair, Alex |
Ballymoney |
(028)90832363 |
Various talks on Antrim & Ballymoney |
Fitzgerald, Patrick |
Omagh |
(028)82256315 |
-Sources for Migration History -Ulster Emigration to North America -Scottish Emigration to Ulster in the 1690s |
Hamilton, Roy |
Co. Londonderry |
(028)71346444 |
-The Hiring Fairs: memories of the people of the North-West -Stories from the Shirt Factories of Londonderry – plus others See also Tour Guides |
Kennedy, Michael |
Strabane |
(028)71885896 mk3carrick@aol.com |
-The growth and development of Sion Mills -The Cooper Photographs of the early 20th Century -Educational change in Ireland 1830-1970 |
Kennedy, Billy |
Tanderagee |
(028)38840769 Mob. 07971609192 billykennedy@fsmail.net |
-Ulster-Scots (Scots-Irish) migration and settlement in the USA -Story of three Ulster Scots: Andrew Jackson, David Crockett and Sam Houston |
Mitchell, Brian |
Co. Londonderry |
(028)71377331 |
-Sources for tracing local families -The history of Eglinton village |
McCavery, Dr Trevor |
Newtownards |
(028)91818191 trevor.mccavery@talk21.com |
-1798 Rebellion in Co. Down -Impact of the Great Famine in Co. Down -History of Newtownards – any period -The Angle-Irish Act of Union 1800-1801 -Covenanters in Ulster from 17th Century to the present |
Mahaffy, Belinda |
Lifford |
0749141216 mahaffybelinda@hotmail.com |
The Davy Crockett family |
Ó Direáin, Dr. Stiofán |
Mill Bay, Islandmagee |
(028)93382647 sodireain@tiscali.co.uk |
-Townlands of East Ulster -Tourist history of Islandmagee and Ballycarry -History of Islandmagee and Ballycarry |
Rankin, Trevor |
Carrickfergus |
(028)93362784 d.helen.rankin@btinternet.com |
The Story of Belleek Pottery |
Sturgeon, Jennifer |
Coleraine |
(028)70324449 |
Under the Spanish Chestnut Tree (History of Hazlett House, Castlerock) |