Discover the History of Lisburn and Irish Linen: The Museum aims to collect, safeguard and interpret artefacts and information relating to the Irish linen industry and the history of Lisburn and the Lagan Valley. Explore Ireland’s industrial heritage in the Museum’s award-winning exhibition ‘Fla...
Welcome to Colin Heritage, the website setting out the Northern Ireland history and context of the area we live in. The Colin area encompasses a large stretch of the outskirts of Belfast and Lisburn, from Dumurry to Hannahstown, but focused on the areas of Twinbrook, Poleglass, Lagmore an...
United Kingdom is one of the two sovereign states occupying the British Isles in the northwestern Europe and the Republic of Ireland. Most of the UK is nestled on the island of Great Britain and it shares its borders with the Republic of Ireland, the North Sea, the English Channel, the C...
1690. June, Belfast is bedecked for the arrival of King William of Orange, who is probably the most famous gay person ever to visit Ireland, the Dutchman arrived to do battle with another oul foreign King, an Englishman, by the name of James somebody or other. William is said to have ...
Faced with the threat of the Lisburn workhouse as she had no way of paying the rent, Elizabeth decided to move to Belfast where some of the Bowman family now lived. Her oldest son by the first marriage was William Bowman and now aged 20, he became the householder. On the advice of a...
Belfast, city, district, and capital of Northern Ireland, located on the River Lagan, at its entrance to Belfast Lough (inlet of the sea). Belfast became a city by royal charter in 1888. After the passing of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, it became
Lisburn (town) Mid and East Antrim (district) Ballymena (town) Carrickfergus (town) Larne (town) Mid Ulster (district) Cookstown (town) Dungannon (town) Magherafelt (town) Newry, Mourne, and Down (district) Downpatrick (town) Kilkeel (town) Newcastle (town) Newry (town) Scotland Aberdeen ...
River Lagan, river, eastern Northern Ireland, rising on the western slopes of Slieve Croob and flowing for 45 miles (73 km) through the city of Belfast into Belfast Lough. The Lower Lagan Valley is one of the most intensively industrialized and urbanized
Born:Saturday, 11th March 1911 Place of birth:Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland Height:5' 9" Died:Sunday, 28th July 1985 (aged 74) Place of death:Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland Burial:Buried - 30 Jul 1985 - Lambeg Parish Church, Church Hill, Lambeg, Lisburn, Northern Ireland ...
June 2nd: A Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter crashes in Scotland, killing all 29 people onboard – including most of Britain’s intelligence experts on Northern Ireland. Despite claims of IRA involvement and a cover-up, the crash was almost certainly an accident. ...