Born into a devoutly Catholic Belfast family, Peggy Brannigan was devastated when she became pregnant as a result of an extra-marital affair with a black junior doctor. Unwilling to have an abortion o...
'Victoria College Belfast: The First 150 Years' celebrates all aspects of life at the school, from the first days when most girls' schools only taught singing, piano playing and perhaps a ...
Enter the name Harry Ferguson into any search engine and you will be directed to sites about his greatest invention – the tractor. Whilst Ferguson is rightly lauded as the person who, more than anyone...
Hong Kong, 1961: a time of prosperity in the former British colony but of famine and social breakdown across the border in communist China. A trickle, then a flood, of refugees besieges the colony,...
The Craft and the Cross examines the birth of sacred symbolism in pre-Christian times and traces its development and survival into the modern world. This study is the result of a quest to understan...
In this book Paul Callaghan highlights and celebrates the work of notable Ulster livestock breeders who, in the same way as the famous 18th century English farmer Robert Bakewell, were inspired to tak...
The decision of what to do after GCSE or A level can be stressful and confusing for both parents and students. This book sets out as simply as possible the various routes that students may take, and t...
A new NIPR manager has been appointed following the promotion of Monica McErlane to the post of Deputy Librarian of the Linen Hall Library. Joan Crooks took up the post of NIPR Manager at the beginnin...
The Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries is maintained by the Bodelian Library, Cambridge University Library, Trinity College Dublin Library and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales to make ...