Category Archives: 2018

Annual General Meeting Walsh’s Hotel, Maghera 17 November 2018   The AGM was held in Walsh’s Hotel, Maghera on Saturday 17th November. Nearly 50 people attended. Attendance at the AGM   Before the proceedings started, Hanna Ferguson, an All-Ireland Scor Winner, entertained the company with a fine rendition of The Maid of Culmore. She was roundly applauded…

EBHS Programme 201819

Dr Eul Dunlop (1950-2018) , by Johnny Dooher The recent death of Dr Eull Dunlop of Ballymena is a major loss to the local history community in Ulster and beyond. He had been a keen researcher, a writer and reviewer of a wide range of local studies material and had up until recently been a…

Launch of Hidden Gems & Forgotten People Exhibition in Carrickfergus Museum on 10 November 2018   The Exhibition was the eighth staged since September 2016. Thanks Shirin Murphy of the Museum for her help in making it happen. Listening to the launch   Shirin Murphy, Carrickfergus Museum, welcomed the speakers and guests to the Exhibition.…

Papers for AGM 2018 here

Speakers and Tour Guides: Update No 36 (November 2018) The information in this Update has been incorporated in the main Register. Additions – Speakers NAME LOCATION CONTACT INFORMATION SUBJECT Watters, Colleen Belfast Mob. 0771 7031794 -The sinking of the RMS ‘Lusitania’ 7 May 1915, and my family’s involvement

carryduff 2018-2019 Programme

Brian Trainor – by Trevor Parkhill Brian Trainor devoted much of his professional life and his 30-year retirement to making good the almost-irreparable damage done to Irish archives by the destruction of the Four Courts during the Civil War in 1922. Initially as an archivist from the mid-1950s, then as director of the Public Record…

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Lisburn Family History Society Programme 2018-2019

Mossley mill programme

Speakers and Tour Guides: Update No 35 (April 2018) The information in this Update has been incorporated in the main Register. Additions – Speakers NAME LOCATION CONTACT INFORMATION SUBJECT McCullough, Billy Ballygowan, Co. Down 02897 521014, Mob. 07747111806 -‘Observing Belfast’ -‘Picture Picture on the Wall’ -Nesca and the Family Robb -‘Tickets Please’ (A colourful recollection…