On Saturday, 1st October, I will host the Civic table at the Lord Mayor's Installation Dinner.This will consist of myself, Mr and Mrs Jim McDonald (Vice-Lord Lieutenant), His Hon Judge Burgess and Mrs Burgess (Court Recorder), Asst Chief Constable Alistair Finlay, LLB, Assistant Chief Constable, and Mrs Finlay (senior PSNI), Mr and Mrs David Ford (Justice Minister) and Professor Richard Barnett, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ulster.
Tonight I gave the Annual Ulster Unionist Ulster Day Speech in the Ulster Reform Club, Belfast, organised by the Castlereagh Central Branch of the East Belfast Constituency Unionist Association. I am the honorary historian of the Ulster Unionist Party, so at least I know I will be among friends. I spoke of the Grand Narrative of British Unionism in Ireland and its suppression by the Irish Academic Establishment, using as a Case History the story of the Cruthin.
I had received great support on this subject at the 1965 Medical Reunion Dinner in the Canada Room, Queen's University, Belfast, at which I spoke last night, the room being filled with Professors of Medicine and former Deans of the Faculty. But this time I told the neverending tale of the ever present Pervidious Albion. It will be a prelude to the coming Decade of Sensitive Centenaries, in anticipation of which the Posse comitatus was formed.
I was privileged tonight to sit with Mr John Orr QC, who remembered being on the planes to and from Glasgow,when I took my friend Dr Ian Paisley to see a specialist there. Dr Paisley, or as he is now, the Lord Bannside, has invited me to speak at the 60th Anniversay Celebration of his Martyr's Memorial Church before I attend the Lord Mayor's Installation Dinner on Saturday. I will tell of his early days when he preached in Conlig Gospel Hall, and of his help in the establishment of the Somme Association and the refurbishment and rededication of the Ulster Tower at Thiepval.
On Saturday, 1st October, I will host the Civic table at the Lord Mayor's Installation Dinner.This will consist of myself, Mr and Mrs Jim McDonald (Vice-Lord Lieutenant), His Hon Judge Burgess and Mrs Burgess (Court Recorder), Asst Chief Constable Alistair Finlay, LLB, Assistant Chief Constable, and Mrs Finlay (senior PSNI), Mr and Mrs David Ford (Justice Minister) and Professor Richard Barnett, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ulster.
Tonight I gave the Annual Ulster Unionist Ulster Day Speech in the Ulster Reform Club, Belfast, organised by the Castlereagh Central Branch of the East Belfast Constituency Unionist Association. I am the honorary historian of the Ulster Unionist Party, so at least I know I will be among friends. I spoke of the Grand Narrative of British Unionism in Ireland and its suppression by the Irish Academic Establishment, using as a Case History the story of the Cruthin.
I had received great support on this subject at the 1965 Medical Reunion Dinner in the Canada Room, Queen's University, Belfast, at which I spoke last night, the room being filled with Professors of Medicine and former Deans of the Faculty. But this time I told the neverending tale of the ever present Pervidious Albion. It will be a prelude to the coming Decade of Sensitive Centenaries, in anticipation of which the Posse comitatus was formed.
I was privileged tonight to sit with Mr John Orr QC, who remembered being on the planes to and from Glasgow,when I took my friend Dr Ian Paisley to see a specialist there. Dr Paisley, or as he is now, the Lord Bannside, has invited me to speak at the 60th Anniversay Celebration of his Martyr's Memorial Church before I attend the Lord Mayor's Installation Dinner on Saturday. I will tell of his early days when he preached in Conlig Gospel Hall, and of his help in the establishment of the Somme Association and the refurbishment and rededication of the Ulster Tower at Thiepval.