Waddell Cunningham owned a sugar plantation on the Caribbean island of Dominica which he called Belfast While it is a popular belief that Ireland played little to no role in the trade, several ...
The deadly flu hit pre-partition Ireland in three waves, according to historian and author Ida Milne who has spent years researching the impact of Spanish flu across the island. Belfast was ...
Commercial shipbuilding had been a feature of Belfast since the late 18th century, but it was the establishment of Harland and Wolff at the Queen's Island shipyard in the east of the city in 1861 ...