Author Archives: Ian Adamson

I joined the Lord Mayor, Councillor Pat Convery, who made a Special Presentation, the Katherine Brick Award for Young Songwriter of the Year, in the presence of Ian Brick and his son Michael. I knew Katherine and Ian Brick from … Continue reading →

Today I launched the yearly Burns Celebration Week of the Ulster Scots Agency here in Belfast. In 1968, the year before I graduated from the Queens University of Belfast, my grandfather and grandmother presented me with The Poems and Selected … Continue reading →

As mentioned in Swearing-in last Friday, I attended the Swearing-in of Cllr Dr Ian Adamson OBE as High Sheriff of Belfast. It was quite an occasion with around 200 guests attending the ceremony held in a main reception room of … Continue reading →

Yesterday I attended the official swearing-in of Ian Adamson as High Sheriff of Belfast, an appointment announced by Ian in The High Sheriff, by Cllr Dr Ian Adamson OBE (Saturday, January 1. 2011). About two hundred guest attended the magnificent … Continue reading →

In November 1911 I began a series of posts named Bangor, Light of the World , a series with I  have concluded earlier this week with its 17th part. . It began with a Christian legend that the centurion who attended the crucifixion of … Continue reading →

On this First day of January Two Thousand and Eleven, Owen Patterson, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State wrote to me, “Whereas I have been pleased to nominate you for and to be Sheriff of the County Borough … Continue reading →

When France and Spain supported America in its fight for independence, and their ships were seen off the coast of Ireland, civic leaders in Belfast responded by forming an Ulster Volunteer Company in May 1778 for defence against invasion. Towns … Continue reading →

That greatest of all historians, Cornelius Tacitus wrote of the exhortation of the British nobleman Calgacus, who fought the Roman Empire, when he said of the Romans:“There are no more nations beyond us; nothing is there but waves and rocks … Continue reading →

My friend Daphne Swilling has just returned to the United States following her visit to those Christians in Northern Ireland who support the Native American mission to our country. I am presently helping her to foster cultural relationships between the … Continue reading →

In this harsh winter, I would like to say a word on behalf of the North Atlantic Salmon. As a former member of the Cultural Tourism enquiry of the Northern Ireland Assembly's DCAL Committee I was gravely concerned to discover … Continue reading →