Ulster Historical Foundation: 42 books

By the late nineteenth century, Belfast had developed into one of the great industrial cities in the Empire. Much of this new-found wealth was based on the manufacture of linen, principally in both the Lagan Valley and the Bann Valley. The River Bann is the longest river in Northern Ireland, flowing...

The Sisters of Mercy arrived in Belfast from Dublin in 1854 at a time when, in the wake of the devastating Famine, the town’s industrial growth was beginning to present the range of social problems that would become all-too-common. From the outset, the Sisters threw themselves into the educational...

The Rebellion of 1798 was one of the most crucial events in modern Irish history, and the bicentenary commemorations throughout Ireland in 1998 provided much new understanding of an issue that has, down the years, been as divisive as it has been formative. Peter Collins provides here an absorbing...

This book, originally published in 1996, is the first to establish the rightful place of the Irish language in the Presbyterian heritage in Ireland. It traces the Presbyterian Irish-speaking tradition from its early roots in Gaelic Scotland through the Plantation and Williamite War periods to its...

Robert Dinsmoor’s poetry is perhaps the greatest achievement of Scotch-Irish writing in the nineteenth century. His work frames a vibrant culture whose ties of faith, family and friendship crisscrossed the Atlantic. He records people, places and events with humour and compassion, and was rightfully...

This is the fourth volume for County Antrim in our Gravestone Inscription Series and our thirty-first overall. This volume covers the following burial grounds: Dromain, Kilwaughter, Kilwaughter Old, Larne and Inver Old (St Cedma’s), Larne and Kilwaughter Non-Subscribing Presbyterian, Larne...

This booklet is designed to be an introduction to the sources available for researching Belfast ancestors and where they can be found. It is aimed at those starting out in their quest to find out more about their local family history and the history of their local community.

This book introduces researchers to the treasure of printed and manuscript resources available in Irish libraries, archives,and genealogical centers. Irish and non-Irish researchers alike will find it of inestimable value for their research anywhere in Ireland. Essential information on operating...

Starting out as a small but energetic and, above all, committed group of parents in County Down in the early 1970s, All Children Together (ACT) believed that, as long as children continued to be educated separately, there was little hope of healing the festering wounds in a society blighted by bitter...

This booklet is designed to be an introduction to the sources available for researching Sperrins ancestors and where they can be found. It is aimed at those starting out in their quest to find out more about their family history.

Elm Park near Killylea, County Armagh, occupies an important place in twentieth-century educational history in Northern Ireland. In 1920 Seth Smith and Willoughby Weaving acquired the house and grounds known as Elm Park and established a preparatory school for boys aged between seven and fourteen....

Sam Burnside's work has received praise for its craftmanship ('verse that is even-pitched and meticulously crafted', Linenhall Review) and for the ways in which it sympathetically explores the experience of living in Northern Ireland.

In the eighteenth century, County Armagh was famously referred to as ‘a very independent county' given the distinctive nature of politics and electioneering in parliamentary elections. This book analyses the background to, and traces details of general elections and by‐elections for the...

When Muckamore Abbey Hospital first admitted patients in 1949, services in Northern Ireland for people with learning disability lagged far behind those in the rest of Ireland and the United Kingdom. By the 1960s, however, this had been replaced by what was considered to be a model service. From Special...