The Ulster History Circle is a heritage organisation that administers Blue Plaques for the area that encompasses the province of Ulster on the island of Ireland. It is a voluntary, not-for-profit organisation, placing commemorative plaques in public places in honour of people and locations that have contributed to all genres of history within the boundaries of the nine-county province of Ulster. Founded in the early 1980s, the group receives no government funding, unlike many similar organisations in the United Kingdom.
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Doreen Corcoran served as chair of the Circle from 1998 to 2009.[1][2]
Blue Plaques recipients in Ulster
editSince the first plaque was formally unveiled over 150 individuals have been honoured, including:[3]
- Cecil Frances Alexander, hymn writer
- Mabel Annesley, artist and wood engraver
- Thomas Andrews, designer of RMS Titanic
- Joe Bambrick, soccer player
- Samuel Beckett, playwright
- Samuel Black, pioneer cardiologist
- Lilian Bland, pioneer aviator
- Edward Bunting, folk music collector
- Margaret Byers, educationalist
- Daniel Cambridge, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Joseph Campbell, poet
- Joseph W. Carey, painter
- Amy Carmichael, missionary and writer
- Joyce Cary, novelist
- Francis Rawdon Chesney, soldier and explorer
- Margaret Clarke, artist
- Edward Coey, mayor of Belfast and philanthropist
- Mabel Calhoun, photographer, teacher and archaeologist
- William Conor, artist
- Kathleen Coyle, writer
- James Humbert Craig, artist
- James Bell Crichton, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Crolly, Archbishop of Armagh
- James Deeny, public health pioneer
- Edmund De Wind, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- George Dickson, rose grower
- William Steel Dickson, United Irishman
- John Dill, soldier
- Gerard Dillon, artist
- James Dilworth, New Zealand farmer, investor, speculator and philanthropist
- William Drennan, physician and radical
- John Boyd Dunlop, tyre inventor
- Timothy Eaton, businessman
- William John English, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- E. Estyn Evans, geographer
- Harry Ferguson, inventor
- Vere Henry Lewis Foster, educationalist
- William Gibson, goldsmith and philanthropist
- Sarah Grand, novelist and suffragette
- W. A. Green, photographer
- Paul Henry, artist
- Robert Mitchell Henry, academic
- John Hewitt, poet
- Chaim Herzog, sixth President of Israel
- The Huguenot Community
- Barney Hughes, master baker and philanthropist
- Brian Desmond Hurst, film director
- Francis Hutcheson, philosopher and teacher
- Alexander Irvine, writer
- Otto Jaffe, Lord Mayor of Belfast 1899 and 1904 and philanthropist
- James Johnston, tenor
- Samuel Kelly, coal importer and philanthropist
- Kellys Cellars, meeting place of the United Irishmen
- John King, explorer
- Charles Lanyon, architect
- Philip Larkin, poet
- John Lavery, painter
- Charles Lever, novelist
- C. S. Lewis, author
- Charles Davis Lucas, naval officer and first recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Luke, artist
- Robert Wilson Lynd, writer
- Robert Shipboy MacAdam, antiquarian and Gaelic scholar
- Aodh Mac Aingil, scholar, poet and bishop
- George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, diplomat
- Thomas McCabe and William Putnam McCabe, United Irishmen
- Luke Livingston Macassey, civil engineer and barrister
- Samuel McCaughey, sheep farmer and politician
- John Macoun, explorer and naturalist
- Henry Joy McCracken, United Irishman
- Mary Ann McCracken, social reformer
- James MacCullagh, mathematician and physicist
- Charles McKimm, first General Superinendant of Parks for the City of Belfast
- Michael McLaverty, writer
- Louis MacNeice, poet
- Martha Magee, benefactor
- James Joseph Magennis, submariner and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Guglielmo Marconi, radio pioneer
- W. F. Marshall, preacher and poet
- Colin Middleton, artist
- Rinty Monaghan, World Champion boxer
- James Murray, inventor of milk of magnesia
- Andrew Nicholl, painter
- Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble), writer and Indian nationalist
- Cathal O'Byrne, singer, poet and writer
- Stewart Parker, playwright
- H. B. Phillips, impresario
- Sir Henry Pottinger, 1st Baronet, first Governor of Hong Kong
- Robert Lloyd Praeger, naturalist and historian
- Rosamond Praeger, sculptor
- Robert Quigg, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Ritchie, pioneer shipbuilder
- Robert the Bruce, King of the Scots
- Paul Rodgers, shipbuilder
- Richard Rowley, poet
- George William Russell, writer, poet and artist
- George Shiels, playwright
- Sir Robert Staples, 12th Baronet, artist
- George Vesey Stewart, pioneer New Zealand settler
- Robert Sullivan, educationalist
- Jonathan Swift, cleric and writer
- Hugh Thomson, illustrator
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, scientist
- Anthony Trollope, novelist
- Helen Waddell, poet and writer
- Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, philanthropist and art collector
- Ernest Walton, physicist and Nobel Laureate
- George Stuart White, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Whitla, physician and politician
- Oscar Wilde, playwright and poet
- Guy Wilson, daffodil breeder
- John Butler Yeats, artist and writer
- James Young, actor and comedian
- Annie Russell Maunder, astronomer[4]
- Dorothy Parke, musician and composer[5]
References
edit- ^ Lunney, Linde (2018). "Corcoran, Doreen". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ "DOREEN CORCORAN (1934–2013)- AN APPRECIATION". Ulster History Circle. 25 May 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ "Ulster History Circle Existing Plaques". Ulster History Circle. Archived from the original on 20 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ Deeney, Donna (21 May 2018), "Blue plaque for Tyrone's 'forgotten' female astronomer Annie Russell Maunder", Belfast Telegraph, retrieved 25 May 2018
- ^ Mgr, Content (5 April 2023). "Dorothy Parke (1904–1990)". Ulster History Circle. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
External links
edit- Ulster History Circle plaques recorded on openplaques.org
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