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Ulster overseas

PRONI event at the John Hewitt Bar, Belfast PRONI exhibtion of documents relating to China Talk in the PRONI lecture room
Sketch of a ship at sea. PRONI Ref. D2892/4/12.
Sketch of a ship at sea
PRONI Reference: D2892/4/12
Within the range of PRONI's holdings are many records relating to Ulster people of all ranks and denominations who have made their mark overseas as politicians, diplomats, governors, soldiers, missionaries and businessmen.
Ulster's links with the Empire and the New World are represented in the records of the great companies such as Harland & Wolff and the records of the Ulster Steamship Co. Ltd (which ran the Head Line).
Notable individuals are also represented in PRONI's holdings of private and estate papers. These include the Castlereagh Papers which detail the career of Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British Foreign Secretary, 1812-1822. As British Prime Minister Plenipotentiary, he attended the Congress of Chatillion. 1814, the Paris conference 1814 and 1815, the Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815 and the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1818, durin. which time he established cordial working and personal relationships with both Metternich and Tsar Alexander I.

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