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The Belfast Royal Academy (commonly shortened to BRA) is the oldest school in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. [1] It is a co-educational, non-denominational [2] voluntary grammar school in north Belfast. The Academy is one of 8 schools in Northern Ireland whose Head is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
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A 1685 plan of Belfast by the military engineer Thomas Phillips, showing the town's ramparts and Lord Chichester's castle, which was destroyed in a fire in 1708. The name Belfast derives from the Irish Béal Feirste (Irish pronunciation: [bʲeːlˠ ˈfʲɛɾˠ(ə)ʃtʲə]), [4] "Mouth of the Farset" [6] a river whose name in the Irish, Feirste, refers to a sandbar or tidal ford. [7]
Kilmarnock Academy (as Kilmarnock Grammar School, 1630) [10] Hutchesons' Grammar School (1641) Dunoon Grammar School (1641) Campbeltown Grammar School (1686) The Mary Erskine School (1694) Perth Academy (1696)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution has a preparatory department called Inchmarlo, founded in 1907 and now set in a 6-acre (24,000 m 2) site on Cranmore Park, off the Malone Road in South Belfast. Inchmarlo House was the former home of Sir William Crawford, a director of the York Street Flax Spinning Mill - it was called "Mount Randal".
Belfast Boys' Model School: Controlled Comprehensive 121-0022 [12] [13] Belfast Model School For Girls: Controlled Comprehensive 121-0021 [14] [15] Belfast Royal Academy: Voluntary Grammar 142-0028 [16] [17] Blessed Trinity College [note 2] Roman Catholic, maintained Comprehensive 123-0321 [18] Bloomfield Collegiate: Controlled Grammar 141-0315 ...
This category is of alumni of Belfast Royal Academy in Northern Ireland. Pages in category "People educated at the Belfast Royal Academy" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total.
The Academy was opened in February 1786; Crombie, as principal, taking on classics, philosophy, and history. The same political complications that led to the collapse of the Strabane Academy frustrated Crombie's original ideas and the Belfast Academy lost its collegiate classes; but as a high school it established itself, with success under ...