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PHIL GIBBONS OF CARNLOUGH |
Jimmy Irvine.
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An account of the life and work of Phil Gibbons who built the pier in Carnlough in the 1780s :
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Photograph of the Low and New Piers |
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THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF NORTH ANTRIM IN 1819
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J R B McMinn.
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Based around Ballymoney; social structure, religion, Conservatives / Liberals; the role played by local newspapers. |
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JAMES HAMILTON DELARGY
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Senator T H Whittaker. |
Account of his life, given as an address to the Society by Senator T H Whittaker in 1981; taken from interviews the speaker had with Delargy in 1974, when he was 75. |
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THE BUILDING OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF GLENARM |
Hon Hector McDonnell.
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Begun in 1763; the design, building, costs, architect and masons of the original building, and later changes. |
18th century drawing of Glenarm by Nixon |
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PLACENAMES IN CO ANTRIM : TOWNLANDS IN THE PARISH OF TICKMACREVAN |
Cahal Dallat.
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Usual format: place names from the English – Irish – translations. |
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SOME MEMORIES OF LIFE ON RATHLIN 60 YEARS AGO
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From letters by Letitia Stevenson ed. Anne Mageean. |
Taken from letters written by the wife of the Curate-in-charge on the Island in the 1920s. Life on the Island, ferry crossings, kelp burning, the building of the new lighthouse. |
Photographs : of the Rev. Stevenson with Johnny Weir and of Jimmy Spence breaking stone for the new Lighthouse. |
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MAGGIE FROM THE ROSS
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Jack McCann. |
Amusing account of a Captain Millar from Kells in Co Antrim, who bred a horse called ‘Maggie’. Ballad recounting the race between Maggie and the rest at Glenarm in 1872. |
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THE BENVAN STEWARTS
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Christine Laverty. |
Benvan House overlooking Murlough Bay; history of the family from the 1750s. Scene of the infamous Appin murder, which inspired R L Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’. |