Delighted to announce my Exploring the Queen’s Quarter Walking Tour in south Belfast on 19 February 2022. This free walking tour introduces people to the sites, open spaces, built heritage and history of the Queen’s Quarter, centred around Queen’s University…
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Campbell College in East Belfast is best known today as an all-boys grammar school but during the Second World War it was a military hospital that treated injured and sick British servicemen. Campbell College had opened in 1894 as an…
ByadminThe book Sir Crawford McCullagh, Belfast’s Dick Whittington, is a biography of The Rt Hon Sir Crawford McCullagh, 1st Baronet (1868-1948) who was a draper, unionist councillor on Belfast City Council and held the position of Lord Mayor for a record 17…
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Dr William Drennan was born in the manse of First Presbyterian Church, Rosemary Street, Belfast, in May 1754 where his father was minister. William then studied medicine in Glasgow and Edinburgh and briefly practised as a gynaecologist. He is credited…
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Brian Griffin’s book the Bulkies is a social history of the Belfast city constabulary that operated as a municipal police force from 1800 to 1865. It focuses on the policeman as a ‘working man’, explores the crimes he had to…
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