During his recent lecture at Ballycairn Presbyterian Church on the Rev Dr James Craig, Dr Nicholas Railton referred to the book by Jane Craig, the subject’s daughter. The text is available on the WWW – The Gospel on the Continent – Incidents in […]
Read all about it … The latest edition of The Ulster-Scot (13 September 2014) includes articles about Blue Plaques recently unveiled by the Ulster History Circle to perpetuate the memory of esteemed Ulstermen David Nelson VC and Rev James McGregor […]
The 17th European Heritage Open Days programme in Northern Ireland is being held on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th September 2013. The EHOD 2014 Brochure (pdf) has been published detailing the 400+ properties and events due to open to the public free of charge. […]
PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND LECTURE The next lecture will be held on Thursday 18 September at 8.00 pm in Ballycairn Presbyterian Church, Ballylesson Road, Belfast Dr Nicholas Railton (University of Ulster) will speak on “The Rev Dr James Craig, Evangelist, Church […]
PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF A CONFERENCE IN SEPTEMBER 2014 Presbyterians in the trans-Atlantic world, 1550-1700 12-13 September 2014, Queen’s University Belfast This conference has been organised by Crawford Gribben (Queen’s University Belfast) as part of the “Radical religion in the trans-Atlantic […]
Robin Morton, the Congregational Secretary at the May Street Church, has extended an invitation to view a special exhibition in the city centre. The Quiet Peacemakers art exhibition by acclaimed local artist Susan Hughes, which was launched at 174 Trust during Community Relations […]
In March 2014, the Ulster History Circle erected a plaque to the Rev Henry Montgomery who founded the Shankill Road Mission in 1896. See our previous post about the event.. One aspect of the work of the Mission was to provide […]
For those interested in the First World War you may be interested in a recent acquisition to the PHSI library. “The Chinese Labour Corps: The Forgotten Chinese Labourers of the First World War” is the fascinating and relatively unknown story […]
The 2014 ‘Return to Cahans’ event commemorates the ‘Cahans Exodus’ of 1764 – see the Cahans Project website at www.cahans.ie for more information about the history of the Cahans community. The next stages of the commemoration progress are – Saturday […]
The next event in the Society’s programme is on Thursday 22 May 2014 in Union Theological College, Botanic Avenue, Belfast, at 8.00pm: The Robert Allen Memorial Lecture Paupers, Presbyterians and the Poor Law in nineteenth century Ulster – by Dr Olwen Purdue […]
