Genealogy Ebooks The great bulk of the pioneering car producers, many of them from the bicycle industry, got off to a shaky start. Of the 200 British makes of car that had been launched up until 1913, only about 100 of the firms were still in existence. In 1910 UK vehicle production was 14,000 units. By 1913 Henry Ford had built a new factory in Manchester and was the leading UK producer, building 7310 cars that year, followed by Wolseley at 3000, Humber (making cars since 1898 in Coventry) at 2500, Rover (Coventry car maker since 1904) at 1800 and Sunbeam (producing…]]> The Williamite War in Ireland (1688–1691) was a conflict between Jacobites (supporters of the Catholic King James II of England and Ireland, VII of Scotland) and Williamites (supporters of the Dutch Protestant Prince William of Orange) over who would be monarch of the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of Ireland. It is also called the Jacobite War in Ireland or the Williamite–Jacobite War in Ireland. The cause of the war was the deposition of James as King of the Three Kingdoms in the "Glorious Revolution"…]]> The county of Antrim is a maritime county, which presents a considerable line of coast to the northern ocean, and to the Irish channel ; by the former it is bounded to the north ; by the latter to the east; Carrickfergus bay and the river Lagan form its limits to the south-east, dividing it front the county of Down as far to the south as Spencer's bridge. To the south-west it has the same county, which running to a point meets Lough Neagh at Shanport.]]> No apology is required for producing a history of Ulster planned on a scale sufficiently liberal to allow of a thorough treatment of the subject. The Province's magnificent record and the greatness of Tier achievements in so many spheres of activity have long clamoured for such a work; and it is in answer to the call that the present _History of Ulster is now published.]]> My aim has been to interest the ordinary reader, rather than the specialist, who can best obtain his information from original authorities; and for this reason I have avoided technical descriptions and details. As the events of the last hundred years would have occupied an undue proportion of the history I have practically confined its scope to the conclusion of the eighteenth century. The parish, which I have chosen as the geographical unit, has been selected because in England it has been found the most convenient division for local history,…]]> Belfast is not an ancient city. We cannot, as in the case of many a town in Great Britain, go back to the early centuries and discover in a Roman fortification a military origin, nor can we go to mediaeval times and find in a church or monastery an ecclesiastical beginning. Of Ireland it can be said that no Caesar with his Roman legions came, saw and conquered. Although Agricola in the first century of this era came as far as Stranraer, and saw with longing eyes, he returned without having crossed to Belfast Lough to conquer as he had intended.…]]> Many large estates unfortunately illustrate the evils of subdivided tenancies too small to furnish decent subsistence for their holders. In the poor county of Mayo, for example, nine owners hold upwards of 20,000 acres, or together half a million acres, being considerably more than one-third of the county. At the opposite extremity of the social scale, with few intermediate connecting links, are half a million small occupiers, half of whom pay on an average 6/. of annual rent. The land map of Ireland, officially prepared for the Doomsday Book,…]]> The tedious and difficult task of both compiling and correcting the Irish Dictionary now offered to the public hath been undertaken by its editor with a view not only to preserve for the natives of Ireland, but also to recommend to the notice of other countries, a language that is asserted by very learned foreigners to be the most ancient and best preserved dialect of the old Celtic tongue of the Gauls and Celtiberians.]]>