Ulster Historical Foundation

New edition of Raymond Gillespie’s Colonial Ulster: The Settlement of East Ulster 1600–1641.

As the head of one of the most successful and progressive garment manufacturing companies in Western Europe, Sir Denis Desmond was regularly asked if it had been either his father or his grandfather who had started the business. The assumption was that it must have been one or the other. The reaction to his response – even in the early part of the twenty-first century – was invariably one of surprise. Bridget Desmond was that rarest of individuals: a successful, self-made Victorian businesswoman.

Please note, this book was first published by in 2012 as Ulster Transformed c. 1590–1641: Essays on Plantation and Print Culture

The Townland Atlas of Ulster, a new publication from Ulster Historical Foundation, will provide an invaluable guide to the newcomer to the townland system as well as opening up the world of seventeenth-century records to the serious researcher.

This memoir offers a unique insight into troubled times in Northern Ireland in the period leading up to partition. Prompted by a sectarian attack on pilgrims processing to a boat in Larne which would take them to the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, a retired RIC Head Constable looks back on his 31 years service.