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J. H Andrews

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J. H Andrews was born in England and educate at the universities of Cambridge and London. Since 1954 he has taught historical geography at Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a Fellow of the College in 1969 and associate professor in 1977. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a past president of the Geographical Society of Ireland. Professor Andrews has published many papers on historical geography and the history of the cartography, and two books on the Ordance Survey of Ireland, History in the Ordnance Map (1974) and A Paper Landscape (1975). From 1971 to 1979 he was secretary to the editorial committee of the Atlas of Ireland published by the Royal Irish Academy, and he is currently co-editor or the Academ’s atlas of historic Irish towns.

Peter Roebuck

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Peter Roebuck is the author of books and articles on British and Irish economic and social history and is Professor of History at the University of Ulster.

Gerald O’Brien

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Gerald O’Brien is the author of Anglo-Irish Politics in the Age of Grattan and Pitt (Dublin 1987), and of numerous articles on modern Irish political and social history. He lectures in History of the University of Ulster.

Trevor Parkhill

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Trevor Parkhill is keeper of History at the Ulster Museum.

Philip Ollerenshaw

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Philip Ollerenshaw is Principal Lecturer in Economic and Business History at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Brenda Collins

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Brenda Collins is Research Officer at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum

Roy Johnston

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Roy Johnston on his retirement from salaried employment found himself free to indulge a lifelong musical hobby. He has been a member of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and chair of its music and opera committee, a member of the Governors of the Linen Hall Library and of the board of Castleward Opera, and a trustee of the Grand Opera House. After some years of writing, lecturing and broadcasting on opera and musical history he wrote a dissertation on “Concerts in the musical life of Belfast ot 1874″ for which Queen’s University awarded him a doctorate in 1966, and which he has drawn on in “Bunting’s Messiah”.

J.P. Lynch

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J.P. Lynch was born in1955 and returned to education as a mature student at Ruskin College, Oxford in 1977. He came to Belfast in 1979 where he took a BA and PhD. at Queen’s. He now works in the Institute of Lifelong Learning teaching on the Part-time degree.

Myrtle Hill

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Myrtle Hill is Director fo the Centre for Women’s Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. She has published widely on Irish social and religious history. Recent works include Myrtle Hill and Vivienne Pollock, Women of Ireland, Image and Experience (Belfast, 1999); Raymond Gillespie and Myrtle Hill (eds), 1798: Rebellion in County Down (Belfast, 1999); David Hempton and Myrtle Hill, Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster (London, 1922).

Wesley McCann

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Wesley McCann is the Librarian of Stranmillis University College, Belfast and an enthusiastic concertgoer. He is presently working on a study of performances in Belfast of the music of Sir Edward Elgar.