Author Archives: Ian Adamson

On Saturday 15th May, I attended a Research Day organised by Patricia Gordon of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Northern Ireland at Queen's University Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast under the guidance of Dame Ingrid Allen DBE, the … Continue reading →

For many generations to come the Revolution of 1688-9 was spoken of…as ‘the Glorious Revolution’. Its glory did not consist in any deed of arms, in any signal acts of heroism on the part of Englishmen, nor in the fact … Continue reading →

Ed: Dr Ian Adamson wrote of the application of the techniques of modern DNA analysis to the question of the population group called the Cruthin in Genes of the Cruthin, by Cllr Dr Ian Adamson (Friday, May 7. 2010). Dr … Continue reading →

One major sphere of interest and concern that has always attracted serious attention in the Irish Nationalist/Republican sector is that of culture and heritage. This is indeed a sphere in which the minority population of Northern Ireland has been, already, … Continue reading →

Health and Environmental Services Committee Belfast City Council Monday 10th May, 2010 Chairman Councillor Pat McCarthy; Deputy Chairman Councillor Ian Adamson  Directorate Appointments to the Posts of Director of Health and Environmental Services and Head of Environmental Health (Mrs. J. … Continue reading →

I don't know if you are familiar with the latest developments in population genetics/genetic genealogy, but in recent times a researcher by the name of Professor Ken Nordtvedt has identified a haplogroup which he associates with some of the very … Continue reading →

This is the text of a paper I gave to the Ulster-Scots Agency (or the Boord o Ulstèr-Scots),of which I am a Board member. The Ulster-Scots Agency was set up to promote Ulster-Scots on the island of Ireland along with … Continue reading →

Grand Unionist Centenary Committee 31st March 2010 Dr Ian Adamson OBE (Chair)  Present – Stephen Gough/David Hagan/Keith Harbinson/Gary Blair/Anne Morrison Smyth/Christopher Harbinson/Dugald McCullough Apologies – Brian Lacey/Christopher Stalford/Ian Paisley/Dawson Baillie/Jim Brownlee/David Campbell Ian Adamson updated the meeting with regard to … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, 23rd and Wednesday 24th March, 2010, following Turkish Victory Day on 18th March and as part of a Pilgrimage to the Dardanelles to commemorate the 95th Anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign (Çanakkale Savaşlari), the Somme Association held two … Continue reading →

Ed: Dr Ian Adamson sends these quotations which tell us why he entitled his book, Bangor – Light of the World (1979);“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt has lost its savour wherewith shall it be … Continue reading →