Robert Bell

The Book of Ulster Surnames (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Book of Ulster Surnames has over 500 entries of the most common family names of the nine county province of Ulster, with reference to thousands more. It gives the meaning and history of each name, its original form, where it came from - Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales or France - and why it changed to what it is today. The index is an essential asset to the publication - providing nearly 3,000 surnames and variant spellings, cross-referenced to the main listing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ulster Historical Foundation
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913993382
• Artikelnr.: 63536073

Autorenporträt

Robert Bell was born in Belfast in 1953. He left school at 16 and worked in a variety of jobs in Belfast and Oldham, Lancashire, before returning in 1979 to read Modern History at Queen's University Belfast. From 1984 to 1994 he worked in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, as Supervisor of the Northern Ireland Political Collection. He has had short stories, travel pieces and historical articles published in Ireland, England, Thailand and Bosnia. From 1994 to his retirement in 2015, he worked as a writer and editor for various development organizations in Bangkok, Sarajevo and Copenhagen, including the International Organization for Migration and UNICEF. He lives in Denmark.