New names added to Tour Guides’ Register

Armagh

078 356 24221
kvfb@yahoo.com

-Ireland and the Great War (if requested focused on specific locality in Ireland or any issue/event in connection with the War)
-The 36th Ulster Division
-The Home Rule Crisis
-The Ulster Volunteer Force 1912-1914 (focus on specific geographical areas a speciality)
-The role of women in the Ulster Volunteer Force
-The history of the Marching band in Ireland
-The history of Orangeism
-Irish Unionism (Dublin, Cork, Sligo, etc)
-Militant Unionism in Dublin during the Home Rule Crisis
-Ulster Loyalism
-other topics related to Irish History on request
All talks are illustrated with Power-point presentations

Belfast

07533 871380
john.lynch24@hotmail.co.uk

-The Community that built Titanic
-Forgotten Shipbuilders of Belfast: Workman Clark
– The Shipyards at War
– Beef, Bananas and Emigrants
– It was all right when it left here! Belfast maritime disasters
– The Wild Geese: Facts and Fictions
– Migrants in Red Coats: Irishmen and women in the British Army
– Ireland’s Biggest War?: The American Civil War 1861-5
– A Brief introduction to Irish Migration history
– The Spanish Armada: Fact and Fiction
– Socialism in Titanic town
– Another Ireland: An exercise in counter-factual History

The following Research Methods Training can be made available either as single lectures or as an all-day workshop (four topics)

• Essay/article writing skills
• Primary Sources on Early Irish History
• Travellers accounts as a source on Irish history
• Oral history and Folklore as historical sources
• Maps as historical sources
• Newspapers as historical sources
• Statistics for the local historian
• The photograph as a historical source
• Government papers as historical sources
• Literature as a historical source.

Moira, Co. Down

012 9261 1825
annewilson1@btinternet.com

-Francis Rawdon Hastings, fought at Bunkers Hill
-Victoria, Queen and Empress
-Edith and Charles Londonderry
-Costello, Rifleman in the Peninsular War
-Jan Huss, Protestant Reformer
-Erskine Childers, Anglo-Irishman of courage and ideals
-Abbe Edgeworth, last comforter of Louis Capet
-Arthur Stringer, acute observer of the social scene
-Eoin O’Duffy, forgotten hero of the Irish Civil War
-Bazil Zulu, Greek Chieftain

Holywood

028 90427739

Town of Holywood, Co Down