The Role of The Class of Instruction in Ireland.
Some of the Members Present The Mystic Art: Edward Lytton The world may rail at Masonry, And scoff at Square and Line, We’ll follow with complacency…
Ireland
The Untimely Death of Mrs Margaret Dickson.
Mrs Margaret Dickson. It is with great personal sadness that I record the passing of Margaret Dickson, late wife to our Provincial Grand Master of Antrim…
Masonic Orphan’s Welfare Committee.
Details of Centenary Jewel. Brethren, I am very grateful to the Masonic Orphan’s Welfare Committee for their kind invitation to attend their annual…
The origins of Freemasons’ Hall as a memorial to the fallen
Perpetual memorial As Commonwealth nations mark the armistice signed to end the First World War, Diane Clements, Director of the Library and Museum of…
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and Freemason
The eventful life of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, was evenly apportioned between a triumphant military career and an equally successful political one. His…
Samuel Ironmonger Derry: Freemason and master escapee
The escape artist Sam Derry was born in 1914 at the outbreak of a war that took the lives of 49,076 members of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Evading…
Joint statement on the Berlin Declaration
Joint statement from the United Grand lodge of England; the Grand Lodge of Ireland; and the Grand Lodge of Scotland on the “Berlin Declaration” We have…
Joint statement on Grande Loge Nationale Française (GLNF)
Grande Loge Nationale Française In 2012 the United Grand Lodge of England, the Grand Lodge of Ireland and the Grand Lodge of Scotland (the…
The story of Augustus John Smith philanthropist and Freemason
The welfare estate When Augustus John Smith signed a lease to run the Isles of Scilly, he created an infrastructure that would transform living…
The Official History of Freemasonry – Part 5
In the later part of the eighteenth century the two main Grand lodges of England, the “Moderns” and the “Antients” Grand lodges, began to collaborate and…