Blue plaque for James Magennis in Belfast The Ulster History Circle is a heritage organisation that administers Blue Plaques for the area that encompasses the province of Ulster on the island of Ireland . It is a voluntary, not-for-profit organisation, placing commemorative plaques in public places in honour of people and locations that have contributed to all genres of history within the boundary of the Irish province of Ulster, or contemporary country of Northern Ireland . Founded in the early 1980s, the group receives no government funding, unlike many similar organisations in the United Kingdom.
Doreen Corcoran served as chair of the Circle from 1998 to 2009.[1] [2]
Blue Plaques recipients in Ulster
Since the first plaque was formally unveiled over 150 individuals have been honoured, including:[3]
Cecil Frances Alexander , hymn writerMabel Annesley , artist and wood engraverThomas Andrews , designer of RMS Titanic Joe Bambrick , soccer playerSamuel Beckett , playwrightSamuel Black, pioneer cardiologist
Lilian Bland , pioneer aviatorEdward Bunting , folk music collectorMargaret Byers , educationalistDaniel Cambridge , soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross Joseph Campbell , poetJoseph W. Carey , painterAmy Carmichael , missionary and writerJoyce Cary , novelistFrancis Rawdon Chesney , soldier and explorerMargaret Clarke , artistEdward Coey , mayor of Belfast and philanthropistMabel Calhoun, photographer, teacher and archaeologist William Conor , artistKathleen Coyle , writerJames Humbert Craig , artistJames Bell Crichton , soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross William Crolly , Archbishop of Armagh James Deeny , public health pioneerEdmund De Wind , soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross George Dickson , rose growerWilliam Steel Dickson , United Irishman John Dill , soldierGerard Dillon , artistJames Dilworth , New Zealand farmer, investor, speculator and philanthropistWilliam Drennan , physician and radicalJohn Boyd Dunlop , tyre inventorTimothy Eaton , businessmanWilliam John English , soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross E. Estyn Evans , geographerHarry Ferguson , inventorVere Henry Lewis Foster , educationalistWilliam Gibson, goldsmith and philanthropist
Sarah Grand , novelist and suffragetteW. A. Green, photographer
Paul Henry , artistRobert Mitchell Henry, academic
John Hewitt , poetChaim Herzog , sixth President of Israel The Huguenot Community
Barney Hughes, master baker and philanthropist
Brian Desmond Hurst , film directorFrancis Hutcheson , philosopher and teacherAlexander Irvine, writer
Otto Jaffe , Lord Mayor of Belfast 1899 and 1904 and philanthropistJames Johnston , tenorSamuel Kelly, coal importer and philanthropist
Kellys Cellars , meeting place of the United Irishmen John King , explorerCharles Lanyon , architectPhilip Larkin , poetJohn Lavery , painterCharles Lever , novelistC. S. Lewis , authorCharles Davis Lucas , naval officer and first recipient of the Victoria Cross John Luke , artistRobert Wilson Lynd , writerRobert Shipboy MacAdam , antiquarian and Gaelic scholarAodh Mac Aingil , scholar, poet and bishopGeorge Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney , diplomatThomas McCabe and William Putnam McCabe , United Irishmen
Luke Livingston Macassey , civil engineer and barristerSamuel McCaughey , sheep farmer and politicianJohn Macoun , explorer and naturalistHenry Joy McCracken , United Irishman Mary Ann McCracken , social reformerJames MacCullagh , mathematician and physicistCharles McKimm, first General Superinendant of Parks for the City of Belfast
Michael McLaverty , writerLouis MacNeice , poetMartha Magee , benefactorJames Joseph Magennis , submariner and recipient of the Victoria Cross Guglielmo Marconi , radio pioneerW. F. Marshall , preacher and poetColin Middleton , artistRinty Monaghan , World Champion boxerJames Murray, inventor of milk of magnesia
Andrew Nicholl , painterSister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble), writer and Indian nationalistCathal O'Byrne , singer, poet and writerStewart Parker , playwrightH. B. Phillips, impresario
Sir Henry Pottinger, 1st Baronet , first Governor of Hong Kong Robert Lloyd Praeger , naturalist and historianRosamond Praeger , sculptorRobert Quigg , soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross William Ritchie, pioneer shipbuilder
Robert the Bruce , King of the Scots Paul Rodgers, shipbuilder
Richard Rowley , poetGeorge William Russell , writer, poet and artistGeorge Shiels , playwrightSir Robert Staples, 12th Baronet , artistGeorge Vesey Stewart , pioneer New Zealand settlerRobert Sullivan, educationalist
Jonathan Swift , cleric and writerHugh Thomson , illustratorWilliam Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , scientistAnthony Trollope , novelistHelen Waddell , poet and writerSir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet , philanthropist and art collectorErnest Walton , physicist and Nobel LaureateGeorge Stuart White , soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross William Whitla , physician and politicianOscar Wilde , playwright and poetGuy Wilson , daffodil breederJohn Butler Yeats , artist and writerJames Young , actor and comedianAnnie Russell Maunder , astronomer[4] 
