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John Henry Biggart: Pathologist, Professor and Dean of Medical Faculty, Queens University, Belfast

John Henry Biggart was quite simply the most creative force in Ulster medicine in the twentieth century, perhaps ever." With these words Sir Peter Froggatt, former Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast begins his foreword to John Henry Biggart: Pathologist, Professor and Dean of Medical Faculty, Queen's University, Belfast by Denis Biggart, his son. The first part of the book is based on ...

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Major-General Oliver Nugent: The Irishman who led the Ulster Division in the Great War

Oliver Nugent, Ireland’s longest-serving divisional commander of the Great War, led the Ulster Division on the western front from 1915 to 1918. That period saw the operational transformation of the British army and his own development as a general, from the heroic but doomed assault at Thiepval in July 1916, through the triumph of Messines, the heartbreaking failure at Ypres and the mixed succes...

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New Light At The Cape Of Good Hope

William Porter, The Father Of Cape Liberalism...

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Our Tangled Speech: Essays on Language and Culture

People are rarely neutral about the Irish language. In Northern Ireland it is a topic which usually creates more heat than light. While attitudes have softened somewhat over the years, polarised views about the language are remarkably persistent. Historic and contemporary efforts to maintain the language have had varied success, but the key goal of creating new sustainable language communities, wh...

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The Plantation of Ulster: British Settlement in an Irish Landscape 1600-1670

During the reign of James I, an official scheme was drawn up for the plantation of designated areas in west Ulster. However, the actual area settled by the new colonists was much more extensive. With them came innovation. A radical transformation of the landscape began. The spread of a market-based rural economy resulted in a quite spectacular growth in urbanisation. Permanent dwellings of a more ...

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The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I

This book by M. Perceval-Maxwell was first published in 1973, yet it continues to be one of the most significant works of scholarship on the Plantation of Ulster. This book describes in detail the initial establishment of settlement in Ireland's northern province over a comparitively short space of time, that is from 1603 to 1625. Dr Perceval-Maxwell examines the society that produced the Scottish...

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