Education
He studied at Bangor Grammar School then Queen"s University Belfast becoming a registrar in pediatrics at the Royal Victoria Hospital for Sick Children and the Ulster Hospital.
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Bangor, once the site of one of the largest Christian schools in Ireland, was the jumping off point for the famous missionary journeys of Columbanus and Gall. The Bangor Antiphonary, which is now in the Ambrosian Library in Milan, was the flowering of a style and depth of worship with unique appeal. In his 'Light of the World' Ian Adamson has combined literary skill and scholarship to describe how one of the main strands of European civilisation developed out of the Judeo-Christian tradition of the Middle-East and to bring out the full scope of how Bangor became the focus for religious life of great depth and power in the early medieval period of Europe.
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He studied at Bangor Grammar School then Queen"s University Belfast becoming a registrar in pediatrics at the Royal Victoria Hospital for Sick Children and the Ulster Hospital.
A councillor on Belfast City Council from 1989 until 2011, Adamson was lord mayor in 1996. He claims to speak ten languages, including Scots, Ulster Gaelic, Lakota Sioux and Swahili. In liaison with Professor Robert Gregg in 1992, he founded the Ulster-Scots (Ullans) Academy.
He is the author of several books on subjects such as folk poetry, history and religion.
He also wrote Identity of Ulster (1982), and other works dealing with the ethnology of a group of pre-Celtic settlers in Ulster whose mentality he claims still pervades the modern province.
He is founder chair of the Ulster-Scots Language Society, and remains a vice-president He is president of Belfast Civic Trust, founder chair of The Somme Association, founder secretary of the Farset Youth and Community Development, Belfast. Adamson is also a former member of the boards of many other local public sector and voluntary organisations, including The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Ulster Museum, The Titanic Trust, The Eastern Health and Social Services Board, The Ultach Trust and a serving brother, Venerable Order of Saint John.
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He is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party and is a retired medical doctor.
