An entry connecting High Street and Ann Street. Some writers have connected the name with Robert Arthur Wilson (c. 1820–1875), a well-known Irish journalist, writer and poet who famously wrote under the pen-name 'Barney Maglone', and there is even a mural honouring his work at Wilson's Court. However, he lived much too late to account for the name, so it must have referred to an earlier Robert Wilson.
"In Wilson's Court was situated the office of the 'Northern Star' newspaper, the famous organ of the United Irishmen. The sign of the 'Northern Star' office was pulled down and the windows smashed by a military mob in 1793. In 1797 a King's Messenger and the military under Colonel Barber took possession of the office, and on the following May 19 the paper was finally suppressed, and the type thrown into Wilson's Entry.
After the wreck two compositors, David Simms and J. Doherty, formed a partnership and started a printing office of their own. The firm continued till 1803, when Doherty retired. On December 1, 1806, David Simms and George J. McIntyre entered into a partnership at 25 High Street, thus commencing a famous publishing firm whose books for the next 50 years were known all over the world wherever English was spoken.
David Simms, aged 70, died at Seaview Cottage on December 20, 1841" (John J. Marshall, Belfast Telegraph, 10/01/41).