Rev Samuel Haliday is best remembered for his involvement in the First Subscription Controversy in Irish Presbyterianism but there was much more to his life and ministry, as this booklet by Rev Dr David Steers shows. Born, probably in Omagh, […]

The Very Rev Professor Dr. Thomas McCurdy Barker Pastor, Professor and Prophet by Salters Sterling Tom Barker was a Derry man who lived a full life very far away from the Maiden City. While studying at Magee Theological College he […]

by Rev Dr Bill Addley A new publication from the Society now available. James Hunter, following a short ministry in First Newry, exercised a ministry of thirty seven years in Knock, east Belfast. While he is remembered as a man […]

 A magazine that deals with history! But please don’t let that frighten you. Sadly for many the thought of history revives old school nightmares of memorising names and dates. This is different. This is history as a story – HIS story. […]

Presbyterian War Memorials – New Book  Names Carved in Stone the stories of some of those individuals who once attended the Mall Presbyterian Church, Armagh before they marched off to the Great War by Fiona Berry This new publication is […]

Putting Children First – The Story of the 150 years of the Presbyterian Orphan Society (now called the Presbyterian Children’s Society) The Presbyterian Orphan Society was founded in 1866 to address the needs of Presbyterian orphans.  It was very much […]

Volume 40 (2016) of The Bulletin of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland has been published. Articles From Ulster to New Zealand: the remarkable career of the Rev. Rutherford Waddell – by Dr John Stenhouse ‘In Between the War and the Workhouse’ […]

A new publication from the PHSI. Dr Jack Weir was a towering figure in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland from the 1940s through to the 1980s.  Born in 1919 to missionary parents, Andrew and Margaret Weir, who served in Manchuria […]

Anne Jane Carlile, 1775-1864, Prison Reformer and Temperance Pioneer. by Leslie McKeague Born Anne Jane Hamill at Rooskey, Co Monaghan, in 1775, she married the Rev Francis Carlile, the minister of 2nd Bailieborough (Urcher) and Corraneary in 1800. Widowed after […]

This PHSI publication containing the Autobiography of Robert Blair from 1593 to 1636 is a reprint of the Wodrow’s Society’s edition of the Autobiography of Robert Blair of Bangor edited by Thomas M’Crie, D.D. and published in 1848. The text […]