Field Trip to visit Presbyterian Churches in East Down on Saturday, 15 June 2024 Itinerary  9.00 am Coach departs from Malone Presbyterian Church (Car park available) (9.30 am - Pickup at 1st Comber Presbyterian Upper Car Park)  9.45 am Livingston Centre, Killinchy for viewing Exhibition followed by Morning Coffee 11.00 am Killinchy Presbyterian Church for Talk and Tour 12.00 noon Ballymacashen Reformed Presbyterian Church for Talk 12.45 pm Kilmore Presbyterian Church for Talk and Tour, followed by Lunch   1.45 pm Rademon Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church for Tal ..read more

“Jonathon Swift and Presbyterians”by Dr David Hayton, Emeritus Professor in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast on Thursday 16th May 2024 at 8.00pmin Union Theological College, Botanic Avenue, Belfast BT7 1JT Swift’s antipathy to Dissenters in general and Presbyterians in particular is well known. This lecture will use Swift’s public writings and private correspondence to try and gauge the extent, direction, rationale and above all the origins - religious, political and psychological - of that antipathy. All Welcome      Refr ..read more

‘Rev John Johnston’s Cause Célèbre: Irish Presbyterianism and the Ulster Plantation in the Irish High Court, 1898’by Dr Norma Dawson, Emeritus Professor of Law, Queen's University, Belfaston Thursday 21st March 2024 at 8.00 p.m. in Whitehouse Presbyterian Church143-145 Shore Road, Newtownabbey BT37 9SY When the City of London Livery Companies sold much of their lands in north-west Ulster in the late 1800s, Rev John Johnston of Cumber Lower Presbyterian Church and others advanced the argument that the Livery Companies held the proceeds of sale on trust for the people of Ireland, in l ..read more

Audio recordings of Talks given by the Society(found under ‘Web Resources’, ‘Audio Recordings’): ‘Ballycarry Session Book’ by Rev Dr John Nelson (2017); ‘Hunter of Knock’ by Rev Dr Bill Addley (2017); ‘Presbyterians and Events leading up to the Establishment of Northern Ireland’ by the Rev Dr Bert Tosh (2022). An Index of Names from the Minutes of the General Synod of Ulster, 1821-1830 (found under ‘Web Resources’, ‘Indexes to Records’) Ministers, Elders, Students, in alphabetical order, with details about the individuals, for example - ordinations and installations, suspensions, fines for abs ..read more

an tionólann We are a group, a gathering, an assembly (an tionólann) of people who follow Jesus Christ. The post So Much a Part of Us appeared first on Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland ..read more

PHSI Lecture ‘Catch-My-Pal’ and the Temperance Movementby Rev Dr Mark Wilsonon Thursday 15th February 2024 at 8.00 p.m.in  First Portadown Presbyterian Church, Bridge Street, Portadown BT63 5AA Founded in 1909 by the Rev Robert J Patterson, Minister of 3rd Armagh (now The Mall) Presbyterian Church, the Movement set out to break the dominion of drink over Ireland. This is the story of the Rev Robert Patterson, Catch-My-Pal, and the Presbyterian crusade against alcohol. Everyone Welcome                        R ..read more

“James Kirkpatrick c. 1676-1743 and the First Non-Subscription Controversy” by Rev Dr David Steers on Thursday 16 November 2023 - 8.00pm in First Dunmurry Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church 23 Glebe Road, Dunmurry, BT17 0PN The son of a minister and a graduate of Glasgow University, the Rev Dr James Kirkpatrick was himself minister successively at Templepatrick and Second Belfast. A prominent defender of the rights of Presbyterians in early eighteenth-century Belfast he became one of the leading proponents of Non-Subscription. All Welcome                ..read more

Women In Leadership: A Look at Church History with Dr Cynthia Bennett Brown (Lecturer in Systematic and Historical Theology at Belfast Bible College) on Wednesday 8 November 2023 at 8pm in Hillhall Presbyterian Church Lisburn BT27 5JA This is a free event and no booking is required. Details of location here. Equal to Lead Our mission is to encourage women and men in their shared calling to lead in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI). The post Women in Leadership appeared first on Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland ..read more

Garvagh Museum Presents "Migration Stories" an Emigration Conferenceon  Saturday, 28 October 2023 in Main Street Presbyterian Church, Garvagh, BT51 5AA Programme: 10.00am  Welcome and Introductions 10.10am  Session 1 10.45am  Session 2 11.20am  Refreshments 11.45am  Session 3 12.30pm Closing Summary Speakers:Brian Mitchell (Derry Genealogy): Migration Patterns from County Londonderry to North America Dr William Roulston (Ulster Historical Foundation):  Scottish Migration to the Bann Valley Keith Beattie: Reverend William Martin and the Migration of 1772 Free ..read more

The Society has 3 copies of ‘Out of Ireland’ by Mark O’Neill for sale (£15 plus postage).  Contact the Librarian for more details - phsilibrarian@pcinet.org. This is a story about the author, a journalist who now lives in Hong Kong but has Belfast family connections and spent time in Belfast as a reporter during the Troubles in the 1970s. The author is the grandson of the Very Rev FWS O’Neill, one of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland’s missionaries in China from 1897 to 1942. Mark’s father, Desmond, was the son of this missionary and who turned his back on the church perhaps because his ..read more