Geography Publications are delighted to announce the final book in the County History series Antrim History and Society: Interdisciplinary Essays
on the History of an Irish County.

Edited by Eileen Murphy and Colm Donnelly, this book will be launched on Friday 19 September 2025 at 5pm in the Great Hall, Queen’s University Belfast, Lanyon Building, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN

ISBN: 9780906602621

Pages: 906

Illustrations: 210

Publication: September 2025

RRP: €60

Contents

1. The Geology of County Antrim by Alastair Ruffell, Mark Cooper and Michael J. Simms (QUB)

2. Prehistoric Antrim by John Ó Néill (Author)

3. Early Medieval Antrim: A Historical Archaeology c. AD400-1100 by Russell Ó Ríagáin and Patrick Gleeson (QUB)

4. The Medieval Chieftains in County Antrim: Irish, English, Scots and Welsh

by Katharine Simms (TCD)

5. The Castles of Ballycastle by Colm Donnelly and Eileen Murphy (QUB)

6. Medieval and 17th Century Belfast by Ruairi Ó Baoill (QUB)

7. George Rawdon’s World – Lisburn in the 17th Century by Brenda Collins (QUB)

8. The Origins of the Boyds of Derrykeighan, County Antrim by Jonathan Gray

9. The Provision of Places of Worship of the Established Church in County Antrim,

1660-1740 by William Roulston (UHF)

10. Rathlin Island, Antiquarians and the Gaelic Revival by Wes Forsythe (Ulster University)

11. Republicans and Heretics, Philosophers and Poets – The Rich Diversity in County

Antrim Presbyterianism by Stewart Jones ϯ

12. Reading and Writing in Co. Antrim c.1760-1860: A Community and its Poets by Linde Lunney (RIA)

13. Migration in Antrim History by Patrick Fitzgerald and Brian Lambkin

14. The Towns of County Antrim during the 19th Century by Stephen A. Royle (QUB)

15. Physical and Human Landscapes of County Antrim: A Photographic Essay by Noel Mitchel ϯ

16. Female Criminals in Nineteenth-Century County Antrim by Elaine Farrell (QUB)

17. The Famine in Belfast by Gerard MacAtasney (Historian)

18. Catholicism in Belfast in the 19th Century by Oliver Rafferty (Boston College)

19. A Tale of Two Cities: Industrial Belfast in the Nineteenth Century by Olwen Purdue (QUB)

20. The Middle Class of Victorian Belfast by Alice Johnson (Belfast Metropolitan College)

21. Science in 19th-Century Belfast by Diarmid A. Finnegan (QUB)

22. ‘The World Moves, and we May Thank the Ladies for its Progress’: Women’s

Unionism in County Antrim, 1886-1939 by Diane Urquhart (QUB)

23. A View from Ulster: Northern Nationalism, the Great War and the 1916 Rising by Eamon Phoenix ϯ

24. Belfast and the First World War by Richard S. Grayson (Goldsmiths University London)

25. Belfast and the Start of the Troubles by Simon Prince (Canterbury)

26. Belfast– Caught Between the Planners and the Bombers by Marcus Patton (Royal Ulster Academy)

27. The Surnames of County Antrim by Brian Turner

28. The Place-Names of County Antrim by Frances Kane and Mícheál B. Ó Mainnín (QUB)

29. ‘Boys, you wanted to see the Islay girls dance!’: Folklore Collecting in County Antrim

in the First Half of the 20th Century by Patricia Lysaght (UCD)

30. Camogie in County Antrim by Séamus McAleenan (GAA reporter)

31. Lough Neagh and its Antrim shoreline by Liam Campbell (Ulster American Folk Park)