The Ulster History Circle is a heritage organisation that administers Blue Plaques for the area that encompasses the province of Ulster on the island of Ireland. It is a voluntary, not-for-profit organisation, placing commemorative plaques in public places in honour of people and locations that have contributed to all genres of history within the boundary of the Irish province of Ulster, or contemporary country of Northern Ireland. Founded in the early 1980s, the group receives no government funding, unlike many similar organisations in the United Kingdom.
Doreen Corcoran served as chair of the Circle from 1998 to 2009.
Blue Plaques recipients in Ulster
Since the first plaque was formally unveiled over 150 individuals have been honoured, including: Cecil Frances Alexander, hymn writer Mabel Annesley, artist and wood engraver Thomas Andrews, designer of RMS Titanic Joe Bambrick, soccer player Samuel Beckett, playwright Samuel Black, pioneer cardiologist Lilian Bland, pioneer aviator Edward Bunting, folk music collector Margaret Byers, educationalist Daniel Cambridge, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross Joseph Campbell, poet Joseph W. Carey, painter Amy Carmichael, missionary and writer Joyce Cary, novelist Francis Rawdon Chesney, soldier and explorer Margaret Clarke, artist Edward Coey, mayor of Belfast and philanthropist Mabel Calhoun, photographer, teacher and archaeologist