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Dr Ian Adamson OBE
MLA
In office 1998 – 2003
Constituency	East Belfast
Born	1944 Northern Ireland
Political party	Ulster Unionist Party

Cllr Dr Ian Adamson OBE ( born 1944) is a former Lord Mayor of Belfast. He is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party and is a retired medical doctor.

A serving Counciller on Belfast City Council since 1989, Adamson was Lord Mayor in 1996.

He studied at Bangor Grammar School then Queen's University Belfast becoming a registrar in pediatrics at the Royal Belfast Hospital and Ulster Hospital.

He speaks ten languages, including Scots, Lakota Sioux and Swahili^{[citation needed]}. He is founder Chair of The Ulster-Scots Language Society, and remains a Vice-President. 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 is the author of The Cruithin (1974), laying claims to Ulster descent from a pre-Gaelic people in Ireland. He is wrote The Identity of Ulster (1982), and other works dealing with the ethnology of a group of pre-Celtic settlers in Ulster whose mentality is said to pervade the modern province.

He is President of Belfast Civic Trust, founder Chair of The Somme Association, founder Secretary of the Farset Youth and Community Development, Belfast. Dr 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 St John of Jerusalem.

• Cruthin: The Ancient Kindred, (Newtownards: Nosmada 1974) ISBN 0-9503461-0-1
• Dalaradia, Kingdom of the Cruthin, ISBN 0-948868-26-0
• Identity of Ulster: The Land, the Language and the People, (Belfast : Pretani 1982, 2nd edn. 1987) ISBN 0-948868-04-X
• Bangor, Light of the world, (Bangor: Fairview Press 1979) ISBN 0-948868-06-6
• [ed.,] Sir Samuel Ferguson, Congal ([q. pub.] 1980)
• The Battle of Moira, (Newtownards: Nosmada 1980)
• Ulster People: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, (Bangor: Pretani Press 1991) ISBN 0-948868-13-9
• 1690: William and the Boyne, (1995)

See also David Hume, David McDowell, eds., Cuchulain: The Lost Legend (Belfast 1994).

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