by Ian Andrew | Oct 7, 2025
About Jacqueline Agnew Jacqueline Agnew was born and educated mostly in Northern Ireland. She lived away for 35 years, but returned and grasped the opportunity to expand her passion for Irish history and genealogy. This led to an article being published in Familia...
by Ian Andrew | Apr 9, 2025
About Linda Hooke Linda is a retired Primary headteacher who has researched and written several articles of local historical non-fiction, which have been published in the Northern Ireland Family History Society’s magazines and in Familia 2022, The Ulster Historical...
by Ian Andrew | Mar 22, 2023
About James McHenry James McHenry, the son of George McHenry and Mary Smiley, was born in Lame in 1785, and witnessed the fighting in the town between the United Irishmen and Royalist troops during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. He would go on to become a medical...
by Ian Andrew | May 17, 2022
About Jim Shields Jim Shields, formerly Emeritus Professor of Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Ulster, retired from his academic career in 2004. A passionate supporter of the arts he was a relative latecomer to creative writing, but once started he has...
by Ian Andrew | Jan 11, 2022
Forgiveness is the Hardest Thing In 2020, Rica Keenum suggested the possibility of an anthology based on the topic of Forgiveness. As the world ground to a halt under the restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic the idea took a back seat, but in 2021, during the...
