The BOIA Centenary Fund was established in 2011 to celebrate the centenary of the foundation of the Association. The purpose of the Fund was to provide the school with items of equipment that would not ordinarily be available from day-to-day school funding. The Centenary is now more that 15 years old and the Council of […]
David Haslett spent his entire 37 year-long teaching career at Inst. Educated at Belfast Royal Academy, David studied Geography at The Queen’s University Belfast graduating with a B.A. in 1969. The following year he gained a Diploma in Education at Queen’s and was appointed by S V Peskett to the Staff at Inst in 1970. […]
Haydn played both hockey & cricket at school and was seen regularly on the sidelines in his later years supporting both until a couple of months ago. From the foundation of Instonians Hockey Club in 1959, Haydn played a full and instrumental part of the club as a player, captain, coach, umpire, supporter and friend […]
The Old Boys’ Association (B.O.I.A.) formally handed over various items of equipment for use by a number of different societies and clubs within the school. Through the generosity of BOIA members donations to our Centenary Fund, the Association has been able to purchase many items for use by the school over the past twenty five […]
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTION TO B.O.I.A. (The Association) Apart from members who pay by direct debit, and those Life members who are receiving digital copies of Seahorse and School News, all other members of the Association will receive a Subscription Notice (invoice) reflecting their category of membership. This will be posted after 1 May 2026. Members […]
Carson was President of Belfast Old Instonians’ Association 1989-1990: a position that he filled with honour and distinction. Carson was a massive part of Instonians Cricket club for many years and someone who gave so much to cricket both at Instonians and across the NCU. He was one of the first to really push youth […]
The Instonian family is very sad to hear of the sudden passing of The Very Rev Dr Houston McKelvey (RBAI 1954-61). As a pupil, Houston travelled by bus to RBAI every morning from Muckamore, Co. Antrim. Houston was always grateful for the opportunities that Inst opened up to a boy from a small mill […]
An Instonian Business network has recently been launched on Linkedin. An invitation is extended to all Instonians with interests in the Business world to join the network via the attached link. To date 100 Instonians have already joined. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/17292016/
This year’s annual London dinner saw us move to a new venue: The National Liberal Club in central London. We had a magnificent turnout of over 90 members from London and the rest of the UK. This year we had a unique representation of several groups of Fathers and Sons or, “Dads n Lads”, as […]
The annual Belfast Old Instonians’ Association dinner took place in the Common Hall on Friday 24th October. There was an excellent turnout, with over two hundred and fifty former pupils attending. Also attending were the Presidents from other Former Pupils’ Associations. This year’s President, Dougy Madill, welcomed everyone and the Principal, Janet Williamson, reported on […]
