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Book Review – Brian Griffin, The Bulkies, Police and Crime in Belfast, 1800-1865 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1997)

2022-08-20 admin 0

  Brian Griffin’s book the Bulkies is a social history of the Belfast city constabulary that operated as a municipal police force from 1800 to […]

Book Review – Otto Carius, Tigers in The Mud (Lanham MD/USA: Stackpole, 2020)

2022-07-09 admin 0

This memoir covers Otto Carius’ times as an officer in panzer units fighting on the Eastern and Western Fronts during the Second World War. He […]

Book Review – Claus Sellier, Walking Away from the Reich (Central Point, OR/USA: Hellgate, 1999)

2022-01-29 admin 0

Walking Away from the Reich is Claus Sellier’s narrative of his time as a soldier in the Wehrmacht fighting partisans and the Red Army in the […]

Book review – Guy Warner, Flying from Malone (Newtownards, NI – Colourpoint Books, 2012)

2021-04-26 admin 0

Flying from Malone is Guy Warner’s history of Belfast’s first airport that operated from 1924-25. The aerodrome was located in the south of the city […]

Book Review – Susan B. Cunningham, Sir Crawford McCullagh, Belfast’s Dick Whittington (Donaghadee, NI: Ballyhay, 2016)

2021-04-21 admin 0

The book Sir Crawford McCullagh, Belfast’s Dick Whittington, is a biography of The Rt Hon Sir Crawford McCullagh, 1st Baronet (1868-1948) who was a draper, unionist councillor […]

Book Review – Brian M. Walker, A History of St George’s Church (Belfast: Ulster History Foundation, 2016)

2021-04-19 admin 0

Brian M. Walker’s book is an excellent chronological institutional history of St George’s church located on High Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was written to […]

Book Review – John Killen, A History of the Linen Hall Library 1788-1988 (Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1990)

2021-04-18 admin 0

John Killen’s A History of the Linen Hall Library 1788-1988 is a solid and worthy chronological narrative of the first two centuries of the Linen […]

Book Review – Lyn Gallagher, The Albert Memorial Clock (Belfast: The Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2004)

2021-04-16 admin 0

Lyn Gallagher’s The Albert Memorial Clock is a short pamphlet on the design, building and restoration of the building after which her publication is named. […]

Book Review – Francis Higgins, Religion, Riots and Rebels, The Incredible History of Brown’s Square Belfast (Belfast: Belfast Lad, 2020)

2021-04-15 admin 0

Francis Higgins’ book, Religion, Riots and Rebels, examines the social and economic history of Brown Square and its residents from its establishment in the late […]

Book Review – J.C. Beckett (Ed), Belfast, The Making of a City (Belfast: Appletree Press, 2003)

2021-04-13 admin 0

J.C. Beckett’s Belfast, The Making of a City is an anthology of 12 essays by different historians on the social, political, economic and cultural development […]

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