Articles in the Bulletin

The list of the Article titles follows.
The Articles published more than 5 years ago appear further down the list

The following volumes are not available online at present.


Volume 40 - 2016

  • From Ulster to New Zealand: the remarkable career of the Rev. Rutherford Waddell - Dr John Stenhouse
  • ‘In Between the War and the Workhouse’ - Women assisted by the Presbyterian Orphan Society during the First World War - Dr Paul Gray
  • The Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Rev G.H. Johnston and the Crimean War - Dr Paul Huddie
  • Rev Professor Francis James Paul 1876-1941 Principal, The Presbyterian College, Belfast - Marcus Kinnier Paul

Volume 41 - 2017

  • The Rev Dr Thomas Clark (1720-1792) within the context of both the Secession Church in Scotland and Ireland - Dr Joseph Thompson
  • Presbyterian Protest and the Pentland Rising (1666) - Professor Robert L W McCollum
  • James Hunter of Knock and Fred O'Neill of Manchuria - Professor William Addley

Volume 42 - 2018

  • Origin and development of the Regium Donum in the 17th and 18th centuries - Dr John Lockington
  • The Regium Donum: its Political Implications - the late Dr Robert Allen
  • Dr Robert Black - Dr Bert Tosh
  • Irish Presbyterians and the Christian Mind - Professor John Gillespie

Volume 43 - 2019

  • No Surrender! The Magee College Controversy - Eugene Dunphy
  • Presbyterians and their Past in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Ireland - Dr Robert Armstrong
  • The 1718 Emigration from Lower Bann and Foyle Valleys to New England - Alison McCaughan
  • The Bryans of Ballyroney - Dr John Lockington

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Volume 44 - 2020

  • The Rise and Disappearance of George Matthews - John Larkin
  • The Presbyterian Church in Ireland and conscription in 1918 - Dr Colin Walker
  • A Surprising Discovery (Portraits of the Rev John Knox Leslie (Molesworth Presbyterian Church) and his wife, Margaret) - Rev Ivor F Smith

The following volumes are available online for Members.

Volume 1 - 1970

  • Origins and objects of the Presbyterian Historical Society - Rev. W.D. Bailie
  • Irish Presbyterian Magazines, 1829-40 - Rev. Prof. J.M. Barkley
  • Josiah Welsh: a pioneer of Irish Presbyterianism, 1598-1634 - Rev. Eifion Evans
  • Treasures of the Society’s Room and Museum - Aiken McClelland
  • Fasti of the Reformed Presbyterian Church (Part 1) - Rev. Prof. Adam Loughridge

Volume 2 - 1972

  • Robert Allen: a Tribute - Very Rev Dr J H Withers
  • Josias Welsh - Rev Prof J M Barkley
  • Reformation at Birr (Part I) - Robert J Rodgers MA
  • Irish Non-Subscribing Magazines 1830-1883 - Prof J M Barkley MA BD PhD DD
  • William Stavely: the Apostle of the Covenanters - Rev Prof A Loughridge, MA MLitt DD
  • J Ernest Davey - Very Rev W A Montgomery MA DD

Volume 3 - 1973

  • John Knox: Minister of God’s Word - Rev Prof J M Barkley
  • Eighteenth Century Irish Presbyterian Radicalism and its Eclipse - Rev Prof R F G Holmes

Volume 4 - 1974

  • Reformation in Birr (Part II) - Robert J Rodgers MA PhD
  • Irish Presbyterian Magazines 1840-1974 - Rev Prof J M Barkley MA BD PhD DD
  • The Greyabbey Brawling Case - Very Rev Dr John T Carson

Volume 5 - 1975

  • The Influence of Presbyterianism in the Development of the United States of America - Dr Boyd S Schlenther
  • D L Moody: a centennial study of the first American evangelist to this country and his influence on Irish Presbyterians - Rev Joseph Thompson BA BD MTh

Volume 6 - 1976

  • William Steel Dickson, DD (1744-1824) - W D Bailie MA BD PhD

Volume 7 - 1977

  • The Overseas Missionary Magazines of the Irish Presbyterian Church - Rev Principal J M Barkley, MA, PhD, DD
  • “Thomson’s Abstract”: an interesting volume in the Society’s Library on the rules and laws of the General Synod of Ulster 1790 - Rev Thomas Simpson, MA, LLB
  • John Howe: Chaplain to Lord Masserene at Antrim Castle 1671-77 - Rev John T Carson

Volume 8 - 1978

  • Rev Thomas Toye: Gt. George’s St. Presbyterian Church, Belfast 1840-1871 - Rev Principal J M Barkley MA, BD, PhD, DD.

Volume 9 - 1979

  • The Links between Irish and English Presbyterianism between 1840 and 1978 - Rev Prof R Buick Knox, MA, BD, PhD.

Volume 10 - 1980

  • Presbyterianism in Bandon, Co. Cork - James Seery

Volume 11 - 1981

  • Rev. Philip O’Flaherty of Ballaghadollagh, Co. Mayo and of Uganda - Rev Thomas Simpson, MA, LLD, DipEd.

Volume 12 - 1983

  • The Rev Dr John Edgar and the Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century

Volume 13 - 1984

  • Sir George Rawdon: one of the horns against the kirk in the seventeenth century - Rev Dr W D Bailie
  • Sons of the Irish Manse - Rev James McConnell

Volume 14 - 1985

  • Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746), Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow - Rev Dr J M Barkley

Volume 15 - 1986

  • Thomas Jackson: Minister of Downpatrick 1700-1708 - Rev Dr A W Godfrey Brown

Volume 16 - 1987

  • Rev Dr F C Gibson (1874-1953): Man of the Maintained Glow - Rev Dr J T Carson

Volume 17 - 1988

  • The Evangelical Society of Ulster - Rev Dr Joseph Thompson

Volume 18 - 1989

  • American Presidents of Ulster Descent - Very Rev Dr Howard Cromie
  • Christian Life in Glenravel around 1875 - W A Kennedy MA

Volume 19 - 1990

  • From Thomas Cartwright to Thomas Howe: Some Puritans who came among us - Very Rev Dr John T Carson
  • Rev Frederick Buick: the Last of the Surviving Fathers - Eull Dunlop

Volume 20 - 1991

  • Dr Neilson’s Irish Grammar - James Seery
  • Vision Unrealized: the Presbyterian Mission to Irish Roman Catholics in the nineteenth century - R J Rodgers

Volume 21 - 1992

  • The 1642 Presbytery: Its Background and its Consequences - R Buick Knox
  • 1690 and All That: a Presbyterian Prospective - John M Barkley
  • Foundation Stone of Eskylane Meeting House (1760?) Laid in 1842! - Eull Dunlop
  • Scottish Covenanter Memorials Association
  • Reports from a Lobbyist: Two Letters from Henry Cooke in London, 1844 - John F Larkin
  • The Hunter and the Haire - John M Barkley

Volume 22 - 1993

  • The Westminister Assembly of Divines - R Buick Knox
  • Presbyterian Culture and Revival - Norman Vance
  • William Smith (1698-1741) and the Dissenter’s Book Trade - M A Stewart and James Moore
  • The Ulster-Scots Language Society - Jack McKinney
  • The Will of the Rev.Patrick Adair, Belfast - John G W Erskine

Volume 23 - 1994

  • The Rev. Robert Magill and His Journals - W D Bailie
  • The First Three Crises of Seventeenth Century Presbyterianism - David Stevenson
  • My Dear Uncle: a Letter from New York, 1789 - edited by W D Patton

Volume 24 - 1995

  • The Rev. W F Marshall: Profile of an Ulsterman - S Alex Blair
  • Cullybackey’s Presbyterian Methodists - Eull Dunlop
  • A Letter from a Barren Land - edited by E Margaret Crawford

Volume 25 - 1996

  • Presbyterianism: Politics and Poetry in nineteenth-century Ulster – aspects of an Ulster-Scots literary tradition - Ian Herbinson
  • “An admirable finger directed by pure taste”: Edward Bunting and Belfast’s Second Presbyterian Congregation - David Steers

Volume 26 - 1997

  • The Church in Celtic Ireland: its life and legacy - R Buick Knox
  • Presbyterians and the Confessional State: the Sacramental Test as a issue in Irish politics 1704-1780 - D W Haydon

Volume 27 - 1998

  • Samuel McSkimin (c. 1774-1843) author of the History of Carrickfergus and Annals of Ulster 1790-1798 - James Seery
  • Presbyterians in the Penal Era - Ian McBride
  • Remember Orr - John W Nelson
  • Samuel Davidson (1806-98) and Kellswater: centenary comment on the later attitude to his native district of the Biblical scholar who abandoned Irish Presbyterianism - Eull Dunlop

Volume 28 - 2001

  • Presbyterian Worship through the Ages - Robert S Tosh
  • Richard Smyth: Churchman, Theologian, Social Reformer - Prof Tom Reid
  • The Man in the Photograph - Ivor Smith

Volume 29 - 2004

  • Primus Inter Pares - Very Rev Dr Samuel Hutchinson
  • Bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613-67) - Rev Prof J M Barkley
  • Old Customs and Practices in the Irish Presbyterian Church - Rev Dr T H Mullan

Volume 30 - 2005

  • Patrick Adair, Minister of Cairncastle and Belfast (1624-1694) - James Seery
  • Samuel Rutherford - Covenanter Preacher, Pastor, Professor and Political Analyst - Rev Prof Robert W L McCollum
  • The “Famous Five” and Foreign Fields - Irish Student Volunteers and Overseas Mission - Rev Prof W P Addeley

Volume 31 - 2007

  • Irish Presbyterianism: Its Origin and Story - J W Kernohan M A
  • Orangeism: a Presbyterian Prospective - Rev Brian Kennaway
  • Presbyterians and the Irish Language - Rev T J Stothers

Volume 32 - 2008

  • The Sixmilewater Revival of 1625 - Rev Dr W D Patton
  • John Abernethy (1680-1740): A Reappraisal - M A Stewart
  • Scots-Irish in North Carolina - Dr Robert Cain
  • Saumur and its Academy - Very Rev Dr A W G Brown
  • The Ideal and Implication of Theological Education - Rev Prof L S Kirkpatrick PhD

Volume 33 - 2009

  • The 1859 Revival in Ulster - Rev Dr J T Carson
  • The 1859 Revival Reconsidered - Very Rev Prof R F G Holmes
  • Statistics Relating to the 1859 Revival from The Year of Grace: a History of the Ulster Revival of 1859 by Rev William Gibson - Joseph Thompson
  • Thomas Houston of Knockbracken - Rev Prof Edward Donnelly

Volume 34 - 2010

  • “Banishing the Demon”: The Religious Basis of the Public Life of Dr William Steel Dickson (1744-1824) - Prof Ian Hazlett
  • The Parting of the Ways - Rev Dr J W Nelson
  • The Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne and the Irish Connection - Rev Dr Joseph Thompson

Volume 35 - 2011

  • On the Move: the Relocation of the PHSI - Very Rev A W G Brown, PhD
  • The Potato Famine in Maghera - Rev S S McFarland BA
  • The Roundabout of Words: W R Rodgers, Poet, Preacher, Producer - Rev R S Tosh

Volume 36 - 2012

  • Thomas Sinclair, Home Rule and Covenant - by David A Murphy
  • The Abolition Church: The Covenanters and the fight against slavery in nineteenth century America - by Dr W J Roulston
  • The Godly Young Minister of York Street - by Rev Dr W M Smyth

Volume 37 - 2013

  • Presbyterianism in Ireland Under Threat - Rev Prof Robert McCollum
  • The Rev William Crawford, MA, DD - Very Rev Dr A W Godfrey Brown
  • Father and Son: the Two Robert Lynds - by Kenneth Robinson

Volume 38 - 2014

  • Chaplaincy in the First World War - Rev Dr Victor Dobbin
  • Introduction to 'The Great Revival in Manchria' - Rev Dr Joseph Thompson
  • Effect of the 1908 Revival in Manchuria - Rev Andrew Weir
  • The Herald: The Genealogy of a Magazine - Edward Connolly
  • Our Presbyterian Heritage - Rev Prof A F Scott Pearson

Volume 39 - 2015

  • Poor Dark Connaught: an Irish Presbyterian case study - Rev Prof Laurence Kirkpatrick
  • The Presbyterian Mission to Kerry 1840-1860 - Hugh O'Reilly
  • The Reverend Samuel Dunlop; an early pioneer in Irish Mission - Very Rev Dr A W G Brown

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