Qualla: Ballycarry https://qualla.com/ballycarry en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ballycarry https://qualla.com/ballycarry Ballycarry: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballycarry/ In 1613, a Scottish minister named Edward Brice arrived in a small County Antrim settlement to take up a pastorate at Templecorran. He had been brought across by William Edmondstone, who had settled here four years earlier. Brice became the first Presbyterian minister in Ireland, and Ballycarry became the oldest Presbyterian congregation in the country. Almost two centuries later, in 1798, the descendants of Edmondstone's Scottish settlers would rise in armed rebellion against the Crown that had brought them here. The Presbyterian story in Ireland runs through Ballycarry like a thread, and most of the knots are still tied at this end of the village.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/j/ballycarry-wp/gcsj-ballycarry-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballycarry: The First Congregation https://qualla.com/ballycarry/ Edward Brice came over from Stirlingshire. He preached at the old Templecorran Church, the ruins of which still stand at the edge of the village. The 1613 congregation was Presbyterian in everything but its formal recognition, a Scottish Reformed church planted on Irish soil in t...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/j/ballycarry-wp/gcsj-ballycarry-the-first-congregation.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballycarry: James Orr, the Bard of Ballycarry https://qualla.com/ballycarry/ James Orr was a weaver, like most of the literate working men of Ulster in his time, and he wrote poetry in the same Ulster Scots his looms spoke around him. He is the foremost of the Ulster Weaver Poets, the group of Presbyterian artisans who were writing in the dialect at the s...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/j/ballycarry-wp/gcsj-ballycarry-james-orr-the-bard-of-ballycarry.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballycarry: The Ballycarry Martyr https://qualla.com/ballycarry/ William Nelson was sixteen years old. In 1798, when the United Irishmen called out the men of Antrim, William went along with a party from Ballycarry to the house of a local landlord to search for muskets. He took a horse and was sent to Islandmagee to tell the men there to come ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/j/ballycarry-wp/gcsj-ballycarry-the-ballycarry-martyr.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballycarry: The General and the Chef https://qualla.com/ballycarry/ Ballycarry has produced a long line of figures whose careers ran far beyond the village. General Sir James Steele, born here, was the British Army officer who signed the mobilisation order that took the United Kingdom into the Second World War in 1939. He was involved in the Dunk...

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