Cllr

Councillor

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 Ian Adamson OBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (born 1944) is a former Lord Mayor of Belfast

Lord Mayor of Belfast

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. He is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party

Ulster Unionist Party

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 and is a retired medical doctor.

A serving Councillor on Belfast City Council

Belfast City Council

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 from 1989

Northern Ireland local elections, 1989

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 until 2011

Northern Ireland local elections, 2011

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, Adamson was Lord Mayor

Lord Mayor

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 in 1996.

He studied at Bangor Grammar School

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 then Queen's University Belfast becoming a registrar

Specialist registrar

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 in pediatrics

Pediatrics

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 at the Royal Victoria Hospital for Sick Children

Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast

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 and the Ulster Hospital

Ulster Hospital

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He speaks ten languages, including Scots

Ulster Scots language

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, Lakota Sioux and Swahili

Swahili language

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. He is founder Chair of The Ulster-Scots Language Society, and remains a Vice-President. In liaison with Professor Robert Gregg in 1992, he founded the Ulster-Scots (Ullans) Academy.

He is the author of several books on subjects such as folk poetry, history and religion. He is the author of The Cruthin (1974), laying claims to Ulster descent from a pre-Gaelic people in Ireland. He also wrote 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.

He is President of Belfast Civic Trust, founder Chair of The Somme Association, founder Secretary of the Farset Youth and Community Development, Belfast. Dr Adamson is also a former member of the Boards of many other local public sector and voluntary organisations, including The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

Ulster Folk and Transport Museum

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, Ulster Museum

Ulster Museum

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, The Titanic Trust, The Eastern Health and Social Services Board, The Ultach Trust and a serving Brother, Venerable Order of Saint John

Venerable Order of Saint John

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Works

• Cruthin: The Ancient Kindred, (Newtownards: Nosmada 1974) ISBN 0-9503461-0-1
• Dalaradia, Kingdom of the Cruthin, ISBN 0-948868-26-0
• Identity of Ulster: The Land, the Language and the People, (Belfast : Pretani 1982, 2nd edn. 1987) ISBN 0-948868-04-X
• Bangor, Light of the world, (Bangor: Fairview Press 1979) ISBN 0-948868-06-6
• [ed.,] Sir Samuel Ferguson, Congal ([q. pub.] 1980)
• The Battle of Moira, (Newtownards: Nosmada 1980)
• Ulster People: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, (Bangor: Pretani Press 1991) ISBN 0-948868-13-9
• 1690: William and the Boyne, (1995)

See also David Hume, David McDowell, eds., Cuchulain: The Lost Legend (Belfast 1994).