Life
1944- ; ed. Bangor Grammar Sch. and QUB; registrar in pediatrics, Royal
Belfast Hospital and Ulster Hospital, Dundonald ; fnd. Chairman of Somme
Assoc., 1989; mbr. Ulster Scots Language Society, 1994; Forest Youth and
Community Development, Ltd., 1982; founding member of Cultural Traditions
Group (CRC); member of Ultach Trust; rector, Ulster-Scots Academy, 1994;
Counciller Belfast City Council, 1989; Lord Mayor of Belfast, 1996; author
of The Cruithin (1974), laying claims to Ulster descent from a
pre-Gaelic people in Ireland; characterised as ‘an ancestral myth
of origin’ by Seamus Deane (1984); also The Identity of Ulster
(1982), and other works dealing with the ethnology of a group of pre-Celtic
settlers in Ulster whose mentality is said to pervade the modern province.
WWNI
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Works
The Cruithin: The Ancient Kindred (Newtownards: Nosmada 1974);
Bangor: Light of the World (Bangor: Fairview Press 1979); The
Battle of Moira (Newtownards: Nosmada 1980); [ed.,] Sir Samuel Ferguson,
Congal ([q. pub.] 1980); The Identity of Ulster: The Land, the
Language and the People (Belfast : Pretani 1982, 2nd edn. 1987); The
Ulster People: Ancient, Medieval and Modern (Bangor: Pretani Press
1991). Also, 1690: William and the Boyne (1995).
See also David Hume, David McDowell, eds., Cuchulain: The Lost Legend (Belfast 1994).
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- W. A. Hanna, Fortnight, 324 (Jan. 1994), pp.34-35
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)