The Society wishes to thank the following for their excellent lectures:
| Miss Bairbre O’Floinn | Of Foxes and Fishermen | 21.9.1990 |
| Dr. Richard McMinn | Bread and Circuses | 19.10.1990 |
| Mr. Jim Busby | Countryside Conservation | 16.11.1990 |
| Mr. Trevor Parkhill |
Arthur Dobbs: Colonial Undertaker and Governor of North Carolina |
14.12.1990 |
| Mr. Michael Coulter | Architecture and Industry of Rathlin | 18.1.1991 |
| Mrs. Lynn Buick | Where to Look for Information | 16.2.1991 |
| Professor R. H. Buchanan | The Making of the Ulster Landscape | 15.3.1991 |
| Mr. Cahal Dallat | Ballycastle’s 18th Century Industries | 19.4.1991 |
The Society’s thanks are due to the Cushendall Golf Club and the Bay Hotel, Cushendun, for providing comfortable venues for our lectures during the year.
More than two hundred of our members attended the Society’s Silver Jubilee Dinner in the Bay Hotel, Cushendun on Friday 18th May 1990. The Guest of Honour, Dr. Brian Trainor, Director of the Ulster Historical Foundation, recalled with pleasure his many visits to the Society and spoke of the high esteem in which the Society was held throughout Ulster. The Society’s record in publishing was the envy of many local historical societies.
Mr. Jack McCann, the founder of the Society, in his address related how he had a vision of setting up a literary and historical society in the Glens and as the dream slowly turned to reality it became evident that the emphasis should be on matters historical; the inaugural lecture was held in the Glens of Antrim Hotel, Cushendall, on 22nd May 1965 and the event was widely reported in the papers.
Mr. Wallace Clarke informed the guests of his plans to build a replica of a galley as used by the Lords of the Isles in the fifteenth century; to make a voyage in the Galley from Stornoway via twelve Scottish Isles to Ireland and to re-enact the voyage of John Mor McDonnell from Islay to Red Bay in 1399 to claim as his bride, Margery, daughter of John Bissett, Lord of the Glens of Antrim.
In his vote of thanks Mr. Cahal Dallat thanked Dr. Trainor not only for his address but for the continuing support and encouragement which he had given to the Society over the past twenty-five years. All present agreed that the event had been a great social occasion.
The success of the Third John Hewitt Summer School shows that this cultural event is now well established and it is appropriate that our Society has re-printed the Day of the Corncrake thereby bringing John Hewitt’s poems and Charley McAuley’s paintings to the attention of a wider public. The Society is proud to have the Summer School in the Glens.
The 1991 John Hewitt Summer School takes place from 29th July to 4th August.
Finally thanks are due to the contributors of the interesting articles which make up “The Glynns”. Contributions from new writers, on subjects relevant to our readership, are always welcome.