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Ulster Unearthed – a new archaeology and heritage series (6 episodes) which will reveal stories of Northern Ireland’s past and its Ulster-Scots links, started on Monday 7 January at 8.00 pm on UTV.  Also viewable later on UTV+1 at 9.00 pm. […]

A Short Course by Robert Whan, BA, MA, PhD. 10 weekly sessions on Tuesdays 7.00 pm to 9.00 pm, starting 15 January 2013. The Presbyterian community in Ulster was created by waves of immigration during the seventeenth century, with 2013 marking the […]

Thursday 20 September 2012 Malone Presbyterian Church, Belfast, 7:30pm Symposium on the Ulster Covenant Mr Gordon Lucy, Dr Trevor Morrow, Dr William Roulston with the Very Rev Dr John Dunlop (Chair) Thursday 18 October 2012 The Mall Presbyterian Church, Armagh, […]

A copy of “The Light Still Shines”, a history of Bellville Presbyterian Presbyterian Church, received from Brian Cassells, its author, has been added to the Society’s collection of congregational histories. This is the story of Bellville Presbyterian Church in the Parish […]

Welcome to the blog for the PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND Thank you for looking in on this blog. We hope you find it a useful companion to the PHSI website which is at www.presbyterianhistoryireland.com You can follow this blog and […]

A Short Course from the Lifelong Learning Department at Stranmillis University College, Belfast. Tutor: Dr William Roulston, BA, MA, PhD, FSA Scot Time: 10.30am – 12.30pm on Fridays for 6 weeks – from 9th November to 14th December 2012 Cost: £45.00 […]

on Thursday 15 November 2012 in Edengrove Presbyterian Church, Ballynahinch at 8pm Ye Poor’s Money, Presbyterian Charity in Early Ballynahinch: 1710-1734 by Mr Horace Reid Read about Ballynahinch and Horace Reid – on the BBC’s “Your Place and Mine’ archive.

A Series of PHSI Events in Derry-Londonderry the UK City of Culture 2013 Thursday 18 April 2013 at 8.00 pm A lecture in First Derry Presbyterian Church  – “On the Edge of Darkness: The Presbyterian Community of the Laggan, East […]

An interview with Mark O’Neill, the author of  the recently published  book “Frederick – The Life of My Missionary Grandfather in Manchuria”  about Frederick O’Neill, an Irish Presbyterian missionary to China, is available through the Bookmarks Book Club website. The book is […]