Families of County Antrim
The Glens, the Causeway coast, Belfast, Ulster Scots, Mac Domhnaill of the Isles, and the Plantation of 1610.
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Families of County Antrim
Historic ties to Antrim
Families with historic but not core ground in this county.
Champions of County Antrim
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in County Antrim.
- Sorley Boy MacDonnellThe Gaelic chief of the Glens and Route of Antrim who held the north coast against the Tudor reconquest for forty years, retook Dunluce Castle in 1584, and secured his line at the head of Catholic Antrim, from which the Earldom of Antrim descends.
- Sir Roger CasementThe Antrim-born British consul whose Congo Report of 1904 and Putumayo Report of 1911 exposed the Belgian and Peruvian rubber-atrocity systems to the world and earned him the knighthood of Edward the Seventh.