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The Ulster Historical Foundation The Ulster Historical Foundation is a long-established, highly reputable research and publishing agency. It offers extensive knowledge on the sources available for tracing Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors. Services include online databases of over 2 million records, genealogy and history books, and personal ancestral research. View
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The General Register Office, Northern Ireland The General Register Office of Northern Ireland. View
Glens Of Antrim Historical Society Our society was formed in 1965, and is recognised as one of the foremost Historical Societies on the island of Ireland. On this site you will find an extensive range of historical and photographic information on The Glens of Antrim area of Northern Ireland. The material has been collected from many people and sources both at home and abroad. View
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Ballymoney, 1734 PDF map of Ballymoney, County Antrim in the 1700s. View
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Seanus Heaney Centre For Poetry Seanus Heaney Centre For Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast. View
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Ireland Genealogy Projects This site offers access to a valuable collection of material that is not readily available elsewhere including monumental inscriptions, photographs of headstones, parish registers and civil registration records. View
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Irish Alliance & The Tenant Right League A good deal of prominence was given in 'The Nation' to the report of an "Aggregate Meeting" held in the Music Hall, Lower Abbey Street, on the 20th November 1849, and called on the requisition of "80 dignitaries and 110 curates of the Catholic Church; 22 members of the regular clergy; 120 magistrates; landed proprietors, corporators, and poor law guardians; 200 members of the learned professions; 700 land-owners,and farmers, and 900 merchants, traders and artizans. View
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Glimpses Of Ireland From Old Books Extract from 'My Ireland' written by Kate O'Brien, first published 1962. Out of print. From 'Antrim and Belfast'. View
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The Disappearance Of The Fox From Co. Antrim, Ireland By the kindness of the Earl of Antrim I have been permitted to examine an old "Court Leet" Book for the Manor of Glenarm, and I have been much struck by the evidence therein of the great numbers of Foxes that formerly existed in Co. Antrim. Thinking that the information might be of interest to readers of the Irish Naturalist, I have been at some pains to decipher the faded-and often nearly illegible-writing, and now give a summary of the results. View