by GOAHS | Apr 5, 2017 | Cultural History, Editorial, Education & Religion, Heritage, Local History, Social History & Recollections
The Glens of Antrim Historical Society Annual Outing Friday 19th May 2017 Proposed Itinerary 9.00am: Bus departs Sheskburn House, Ballycastle 9.30am: Bus departs St Mary’s Parish Centre, Cushendall 11.00am: Arrive Clifton House, tea/coffee and scones served on...
by GOAHS | Jul 1, 2016 | Education & Religion, Family History, Geology, Heritage, Local History, Social History & Recollections, Townlands, VOLUME 9 (1981)
The Society wishes to thank the Officers of the Royal Irish Academy for kindly permitting the publication of these Memoirs, and the Staff of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland for its assistance in transcribing the text. There are three memoirs for this...
by GOAHS | Jun 9, 2016 | Ecclesiastical History, Education & Religion, Lectures, Local History, VOLUME 9 (1981)
(Being a resume of part of a lecture on “Presbyterianism in the Glens” given by the author to the Glens of Antrim Historical Society in Cushendall on Friday, 19th September, 1980. S. Alex. Blair ) Presbyterianism came to Ireland from...
by GOAHS | Jul 5, 2014 | Archaelogy, Education & Religion, The Glynns Vol. 2 (1974), Volume 2 (1974)
With the destruction of buildings used for Catholic public worship during the sixteenth century Mass had to be celebrated in strange places, in private homes and huts, in sheds and stables or in the open air. Lest the situation should become unseemly, a Synod of the...
by GOAHS | Jul 5, 2014 | Archaelogy, Education & Religion, The Glynns Vol. 1 (1973)
A Royal Commission in 1622 reported that, “in the diocese of Down and Connor, only 16 churches were fit for the celebration of Divine ordnance, while 150 churches and chapels were decayed or in ruins”. In this short article, I am confining my survey to the modern...
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