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Cllr Dr Ian Adamson OBE ( born 1944) is a former Lord Mayor of Belfast. He is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party and is a retired medical doctor. Image File history File links Ian_Adamson. ...
A Member of the Legislative Assembly, or MLA, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to the Legislature or legislative assembly of a subnational jurisdiction. ...
East Belfast is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ...
Anthem: UK: God Save the Queen Regional: (de facto) Londonderry Air Capital Belfast Largest city Belfast Official languages English (de facto), Irish, Ulster Scots 3, BSL, NISL, ISL Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP - First Minister Ian Paisley - Deputy First Minister...
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party ) is a moderate unionist political party in Northern Ireland, which formed its government between 1921 and 1972 and was supported by most unionists throughout the Troubles. ...
The Lord Mayor of Belfast is a ceremonial position held by a member of Belfast City Council. ...
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party ) is a moderate unionist political party in Northern Ireland, which formed its government between 1921 and 1972 and was supported by most unionists throughout the Troubles. ...
A serving Councillor on Belfast City Council since 1989, Adamson was Lord Mayor in 1996. Belfast City Council is the largest local council serving the largest city in Northern Ireland which has a population of 277,391. ...
Councillor Patrick (Pat) John Stannard, Lord Mayor of Oxford (2004). ...
He studied at Bangor Grammar School then Queen's University Belfast becoming a registrar in pediatrics at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and Ulster Hospital. Bangor Grammar School is an all-boys voluntary grammar school situated in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. ...
Queens University Belfast is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland and a member of the Russell League (the UKs top 20 research universities). ...
Registrar may refer to: In education, a registrar or registry is an official in an academic institution (a college, university, or secondary school) who handles student records. ...
Clinical Examination Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents (from newborn to age 16-21, depending on the country). ...
He speaks ten languages, including Scots, Lakota Sioux and Swahili[citation needed]. He is founder Chair of The Ulster-Scots Language Society, and remains a Vice-President. In liaison with Professor Robert Gregg in 1992, he founded the Ulster-Scots (Ullans) Academy. Ulster Scots, also known as Ullans, Hiberno-Scots, or Scotch-Irish, refers to the variety of Scots spoken in parts of the province of Ulster, which spans the six counties of Northern Ireland and three of the Republic of Ireland. ...
The Lakota (IPA: ) (also Lakhota, Teton, Titonwon) are a Native American tribe. ...
Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see Kiswahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. ...
He is the author of several books on subjects such as folk poetry, history and religion. He is the author of The Cruthin (1974), laying claims to Ulster descent from a pre-Gaelic people in Ireland. He also wrote The Identity of Ulster (1982), and other works dealing with the ethnology of a group of pre-Celtic settlers in Ulster whose mentality is said to pervade the modern province.
He is President of Belfast Civic Trust, founder Chair of The Somme Association, founder Secretary of the Farset Youth and Community Development, Belfast. Dr Adamson is also a former member of the Boards of many other local public sector and voluntary organisations, including The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Ulster Museum, The Titanic Trust, The Eastern Health and Social Services Board, The Ultach Trust and a serving Brother, Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem. This article is in need of improvement. ...
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The Lord Mayor of Belfast is a ceremonial position held by a member of Belfast City Council. ...
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Works
- Cruthin: The Ancient Kindred, (Newtownards: Nosmada 1974) ISBN 0-9503461-0-1
- Dalaradia, Kingdom of the Cruthin, ISBN 0-948868-26-0
- Identity of Ulster: The Land, the Language and the People, (Belfast : Pretani 1982, 2nd edn. 1987) ISBN 0-948868-04-X
- Bangor, Light of the world, (Bangor: Fairview Press 1979) ISBN 0-948868-06-6
- [ed.,] Sir Samuel Ferguson, Congal ([q. pub.] 1980)
- The Battle of Moira, (Newtownards: Nosmada 1980)
- Ulster People: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, (Bangor: Pretani Press 1991) ISBN 0-948868-13-9
- 1690: William and the Boyne, (1995)
See also David Hume, David McDowell, eds., Cuchulain: The Lost Legend (Belfast 1994). |
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