County Antrim – Choose a Topic

County Antrim, highlighted.

Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Antrim’s past

County Antrim, 1878.

Family Histories

• Crawford of Orangefield & The Lodge, Belfast
• Foster, Viscount Ferrard and Viscount Massereene (Antrim Castle)
• Halloran of Glenarm and Carnlough
• Henry of Straffan House, referencing Antrim roots
• Lyle of Glandore Lodge, Kilrea, referenced here
• McClintock of Glendaragh
• McDonnell of Glenarm

Pubs in County Antrim

• House of McDonnell – Ballycastle
• Kelly’s Cellars – Bank Street, Belfast
• The Crown – Belfast

Antrim Towns

• Belfast – City of Music & Joy
• Portrush

People of County Antrim

• Hugh de Lacy and the Albigensian Crusade
• Hercules Mulligan (1740-1825) – The Tailor Spy
• Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), 1791
• Commander Thomas McDonnell (1788-1864)
• Rev. William McClintock Wray (1790-1868) of Broughshane, Rector of Buckna, Ballymena
• James Acheson Lyle (1818-1900) of Glandore Lodge, referenced here.
• Captain Jack White (1879-1945) & the Citizen Army
• Don Patricio O’Connell, Barça’s Saviour
• Brian Desmond Hurst – The Empress of Gallipoli
• Richard Nixon’s Antrim Roots (Millhouse)
• Paddy Falloon (1911-2003) of Dunadry and Stormont
• Siobhán McKenna (1922-1986)
• Jack Higgins (1929-2022) – The Belfast Roots of an Author
• Willie John McBride – Pride of the Lions – Rugby Icon
• Michael Clarke, the Larne boy who became Admiral of Lough Erne Yacht Club
• Brian Kennedy – Rise of a Falls Road Boy
• Finlay the Belfast Bruiser – Professional Wrestler

Articles on County Antrim

• A Short History of Irish Gold
• The Forgotten Fadgies: From Omeath To West Belfast – A Guest Post by Brian Hopkins
• The Irish and the White House
• The Lagan Navigation
• Linen Hall Library, Belfast
• Rails to the Sea: How Ireland’s Railways Made Seaside Tourism
• Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
• Titanic – The Irish Connections
• Who Sank Titanic?