Occupations

Ulster's Ships & Quaysides

Ulster’s Ships & Quaysides

The North of Ireland Family History Society (NIFHS) has a range of books covering a great variety of occupations.  So if members of your family were involved in farming, linen, policing, railways, shipbuilding, foundry work, milling, baking, …, you may find out more here.  And if their leisure involved cricket, football, golf or the Boys’ Brigade, there are books about those too.  These are the aspects of their daily lives that can make your family history more interesting, especially if those occupations are now rare or have undergone considerable change.  These books are for consultation in the Library and not for borrowing.

The books are shelved at IR 860 in the Randal Gill Library.

  • IR 860–001 — Ireland, Millers and Mills of 1850 — Hogg, William
  • IR 860–002 — Ulster – “Living and working in pre-famine Ulster” — NI Centre for Learning Resources
  • IR 860–003 — Ulster – “The Ulster Textile Industry” — PRONI
  • IR 860–004 — Co Tyrone “They wrought among the tow”  – flax and Linen — UHF
  • IR 860–005 — N.I. – “100 years of Electricity” from 1883 — NIE
  • IR 860–006 — N.I. – “100 years of Electricity” from 1895 – 1995 — NIE
  • IR 860–007 — Newry Union – Farming Show Catalogue 1873 — Photocopies
  • IR 860–008 — Dungannon – “Cornmill & memories” — McVeigh, Frank
  • IR 860–009 — Ireland, Irish Railway Transport Genealogical Archive — Leckey, Joseph
  • IR 860–010 — Irish Linen Industry — Crawford, Bill
  • IR 860–011 — Belfast Merchant Families in 17th Century — Agnew, Jean
  • IR 860–012 — Dublin Bakers, a history — Swift, John
  • IR 860–013 — Belfast, a life in Linenopolis, memoirs of weaver, William Topping, 1903-1956 — UHF
  • IR 860–014 — Traditional Building skills, a Directory — Ulster Architectural Heritage Soc.
  • IR 860–015 — Was your Grandfather a Railwayman?” 1st Edition — FFHS
  • IR 860–016 — Was your Grandfather a Railwayman?” 3rd Edition — FFHS
  • IR 860–017 — Occupational Sources for Genealogists – a bibliography — FFHS
  • IR 860–018 — RUC & RIC – “Arresting moments” Constabulary life — RUC
  • IR 860–019 — Rural Ulster, Life in the 30’s — NI Centre for Learning Resources
  • IR 860–020 — Dundonald, Ulster Hospital – Part 1 1873 – 1952 — Kelly, Kathleen
  • IR 860–021 — Belfast, General & Royal Hospital 1850 – 1903 — Allison, R S
  • IR 860–022 — The Faithful Fibre, story of Linen development — Linen Thread Co Ltd
  • IR 860–023 — Bianconi and his cars — Photocopied sheets
  • IR 860–024 — Belfast Boys Brigade – a history  
  • IR 860–025 — Rail and Citybus magazines, Collection of  
  • IR 860–026 — Railway Preservation Society of Ireland No. 32  
  • IR 860–027 — Royal Ulster Constabulary Museum, Guide  
  • IR 860–028 — County Donegal Railway — Flanders, Steve
  • IR 860–029 — Ulster Hospital, the story of -Part 1 1873 – 1952 — Robert Marshall
  • IR 860–030 — Baird W. G. 1862 – 1987 — W. & G. Baird Ltd.
  • IR 860–031 — Kelly Ltd John- A History of Kelly’s Coal Boats — Ian Wilson.
  • IR 860–032 — Royal Irish Constabulary, An Oral History — Brewer, John D.
  • IR 860–033 — Football In Ireland, Origins and Development of, & The Irish Football Annual 1880 — Garnham, N. & Peters, R.M.
  • IR 860–034 — McLaughlin & Harvey, A History of, “Building Over the Centuries” — Watson, F.G.
  • IR 860–035 — Hiring Fairs & Market Places — Blair, May
  • IR 860–036 — Constabulary Heroes 1826-2009 (RUC GC/PSNI) — Trotter, Sam
  • IR 860–037 — The Royal Constabulary Museum, A Guide to the Collection — RUC Historical Society
  • IR 860–038 — Armagh Cricket Club, 150 Not Out — Weir, Brian
  • IR 860–039 — Reunion, Retired Police Officer’s Association, Nos. 12,13, 20, 22, 24 & 25  
  • IR 860–040 — Water Mills — Watts, Martin
  • IR 860–041 — Irish Linen, The Making of — Collins, Peter
  • IR 860–042 — People & the Land, Farming in 19th century Ireland — Bell, Jonathan
  • IR 860–043 — Irish Farming, A History of 1750-1950 — Bell, Jonathan & Watson, Mervyn
  • IR 860–044 — Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster, The Impact of — Crawford, W.A.
  • IR 860–045 — Picking up the Linen Threads, A Study in Industrial Folklore — Messenger, Betty
  • IR 860–046 — Ulster’s Ships & Quaysides — Anderson, Robert & Wilson, Ian
  • IR 860–047 — Trustee Savings Banks in Northern Ireland, A History of   — McCreary, Alf
  • IR 860–048 — Industries of the North, One Hundred Years Ago 1888-91  
  • IR 860–049 — Portadown Foundry, A History, 1844-1983 — McClure, Cardwell, Steen, Wilson
  • IR 860–050 — Complete A-Z Guide to Early Occupations  
  • IR 860–051 — Bangor, Second Sight, A History of 2nd Bangor, Boy’s Brigade, 1929-2007 — French, Trevor
  • IR 860–052 — Ways of Old, Traditional Life in Ireland — Sharkey, Olive
  • IR 860–053 — Illustrations of the Irish Linen Industry in 1783 — Hincks, William
  • IR 860–054 — Old Irish Country Life — Oram, Hugh
  • IR 860–055 — Old Days, Old Ways, An Illustrated Folk History of Ireland — Sharkey, Olive
  • IR 860–056 — Coastguards & coastguard Stations in Ulster (photocopies)  
  • IR 860–057 — Ards Football Club, 30 Memorable Matches — Monaghan, Adrian
  • IR 860–058 — Irish Railway Collection, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum — Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
  • IR 860–059 — A History of Northern Ireland Railways — Robb, William M.B.E.
  • IR 860–060 — Larne Golf Club, One Hundred Years and Still Swinging, 1913-2013 — Baird, Heather
  • IR 860–061 — Belfast, The Royal Victoria Hospital, 1903-1953 — Marshall, Robert
  • IR 860–062 — Handloom Weavers & the Ulster Linen Industry — Crawford, W.H.
  • IR 860–063 — The Irish Linen Industry — Crawford, W. H.
  • IR 860–064 — Forster Green Hospital, Caring Over the Century — Wallace, Duncan (Donated by Sandra Ardis)
  • IR 860–065 — Ballymoney, Route Hospital, Co. Antrim, A History of, 1840-1987, Pauper to Patient — Burns, Cecil
  • IR 860–066 — The Mater, The Story of a Belfast Teaching Hospital & its Community — Consultant eds. Gormley, Mark & Hinds, Mary
  • IR 860–067 — Lisnagarvey Hockey Club, History of, 1901-2001, Blue is the Colour, Garvey is the Name — McCreary, Alf (Donated by Ann Robinson)
  • IR 860–068 — Lisnagarvey Hockey Club, A History of — Hood, Kenneth H. (re-numbered from IR 900–164)
  • IR 860–069 — Co. Londonderry, From The Beagh to Maghera, Growing up on a Family Farm in the ’50s — Armour, James
  • IR 860–070 — Fintona Horse Tram — Johnston, Norman (Donated by Syl Maguire)
  • IR 860–071 — Fond Memory, History of the Boys’ Auxilliary of the Presbyterian Church — Mills, Herbert
  • IR 860–072 — Downshire Pottery in Belfast (from Vol. 15 Part 3, English Ceramic Circle)  — Francis, Peter
  • IR 860–073 — Purdysburn Hospital, The Burn, the Fever & Beyond  — Hamilton, Stephen & Martin, David