On 27 March 1951 a Douglas Dakota 3 cargo aircraft registered G-AJVZ operated by Air Transport Charter en route from Ringway Airport, Manchester, England, to Nutts Corner Airport, Antrim, Northern Ireland, crashed shortly after take-off following the failure of the aircraft to gain height.
Antrim RFC (Antrim Rugby Football Club) is a rugby club based at Allen Park in Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Cutlery was the big industry in this small town, beginning with the manufacturing of apple-paring machines in 1864.
It was first settled by the Kerrs, McMichael and McMullin families who came from Antrim in Northern Ireland.
Black was born in Beremboke, near Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, the eleventh child of William and Anne (née Longmore), farmers originally from Antrim, Ireland.
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Bishop of Down and Connor, Daniel Mageean threw in the ball between Dublin and Antrim in final.
Dublin had beaten Antrim 6-5 to 4-1 in the "Home" final, and went to London for the All-Ireland final on Easter Monday 1951.
Giving a truly spectacular exhibition of the game that drew round after round of applause from the appreciative Oireachtas crowd, Antrim deservedly won.
The 1977 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Athenry from Galway, who defeated Portglenone from Antrim in the final, played at Athenry .
Titles included Outta Control (Belfast), Anarchist Worker (Dublin), Antrim Alternative (Ballymena), Black Star (Ballymena), Resistance (Dublin) and Organise! (Ballymena).
A series of castles were built, and much of what are now counties Antrim, Londonderry and Tyrone were granted to Ailean Alan, Lord of Galloway (or "King of the Gall-Gaidhil"), his brother Tomás Mac Uchtraigh and their cousin Donnchadh of Carrick.
Ballycraigy is a mainly loyalist housing estate in Antrim, about 10 miles north of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
In 2003 Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Sullivan, Capitan, New Mexico Mayor Steve Sederwall, and De Baca County, New Mexico Sheriff Gary Graves began a campaign to exhume the remains of Billy the Kid and his mother, Catherine Antrim, to prove it was in fact Billy the Kid buried in Fort Sumner through DNA.
Charles Curtis Craig (1869–1960), Northern Irish politician, Member of Parliament for South Antrim 1903–1922 and Antrim 1922–1929
Singing the Marseillaise, they marched towards Antrim, only to be defeated in the Battle of Antrim the next day.
'The Kingdom' were subsequently banished to the qualifiers where they had some unimpressive wins over Longford, Sligo and Antrim.
Dunloy Fc is a football club associated with Dunloy, a village in northern County Antrim, Northern Ireland situated between Ballymena and Ballymoney.
His fourth son Randal MacDonnell was created Viscount Dunluce, in the County of Antrim, in 1618, and Earl of Antrim in 1620.
Large-scale town planning schemes include London County Council's St Helier Estate (1934), and for Ulster Garden Villages Limited in Northern Ireland, Merville Garden Village, Abbots Cross, Fernagh, Princes Park, Kings Park, Whitehead and Muckamore Garden Villages, all in County Antrim.
Gawley's Gate, small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
At an anti-Good Friday Agreement protest in Antrim on April 1998 McKee shared a platform with then fellow DUP member Sammy Wilson and Kenneth Peeples, a described leader of the Orange Volunteers and Protestant fundamentalist, who burned a copy of the agreement.
Jacskon McGreevy (born 21 April 1994) is an Irish hurler who plays as a midfielder for the Antrim senior team.
James Graham Leslie (1869–1949), Northern Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Antrim
She was chair, secretary and PRO for Co Kildare Camogie Board, a member of Leinster Council, and chair of the National Strategic Plan committee for six years and a ememebr of Management Committee for three years before she defeated Antrim's Catherine O'Hara in a vote at Congress 2009 in Athlone to become the sport’s first president-elect.
The eldest son of Samuel Ballance (a farmer of Glenavy, County Antrim, in what is now Northern Ireland) and Mary McNiece, John Ballance was born on 27 March 1839 in Glenavy in County Antrim.
Sir Joseph McConnell, 2nd Baronet (1877–1942), Member of Parliament (MP) for Antrim, 1929–1942
Speculation remains that the line could one day re-open under plans to operate a Belfast — Lisburn — Antrim — Belfast circular route, with the possibility of a station for Belfast International Airport which is close to the line at Aldergrove.
Supported by Munster and Connacht, and assisted also by English contingents and by the MacDonnells of Antrim, O'Neill took the castle of Ballyshannon, and after devastating a large part of Tyrconnell he encamped at Knockavoe, near Strabane.
Minna Thomas Antrim (October 13, 1861, Philadelphia - 1950) was an American writer.
The GP in the Village's Surgery is Dr. Josef Kuriacose who spoke out against the lack of staff at Antrim Area Hsoptial and featured on BBC Newsline.
Olcán (fl. 5th century) is the name of an early Irish saint of the Dál Riata, disciple of St Patrick and founder of Armoy (Irish:Oirthear Maí) in northeast Antrim, Northern Ireland.
However, on 25 April the Santa Fe was intercepted while sailing away and disabled by depth charges from Antrim's Wessex helicopter and subsequent attacks by task force Wasp and Lynx helicopters, which fired at least six AS-12 missiles on the submarine.
Antrim married Alice, daughter of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, by whom, besides six daughters, he had Randal, 2nd earl and 1st marquess of Antrim, and Alexander, 3rd earl.
The selection was marred by internal division, with South Antrim MLA Duncan Shipley-Dalton claiming that UUP HQ were trying to foist Campbell on the constituency.
One example of this was Brian McCargo, a catholic who played Gaelic football for Ardoyne and for county Antrim, who was told to leave by the GAA after joining the RUC.
Minor and U21 finals are regularly contested but the Club did however need to wait under 2005 to win its next County title which was followed by an All Ireland Club title on St Patricks Day in 2006 against St Galls of Antrim, players starring on this team included Finian Hanley, Seán Armstrong, Michael Donnellan, Maurice Sheridan, Séamie Crowe, Alan Kerins to mention only a few.
Sean experienced many years of hardship with Antrim, one of the weaker footballing counties in Ireland but rose to prominence in 2000 when he was an outstanding performer in Antrim's first Ulster Championship win for 18 years.
McPeake was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland and was a member of Ballymena & Antrim Athletics Club.
On 30 June 1886, she ran aground on the Antrim coast, but was refloated, sold, and renamed Lismore.
During this conflict, Lumley used his regiment for patrolling the countryside and on 7 June 1798 was at Antrim when the town was attacked by at least 4,000 rebels led by Henry Joy McCracken.