The Ulster Anthology.
Author: CRAIG, Patricia (Editor).
Publisher: Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2006. xiv, 722 pages. Hardback.
The Ulster Anthology is a fitting culmination to the Blackstaff series of local anthologies on Belfast and Derry. Encompassing the historic nine counties of Ulster, this major new anthology charts the history, politics and culture of a territory that is acknowledged to be complex, contrary and deeply resistant to hard-and-fast definitions. Containing over one thousand extracts, and spanning more than three centuries, the anthology assembles an abundance of comment, description, argument and reminiscence, allowing the voices of writers, historians, commentators, musicians and Ulster people from all walks of life, to present an astonishingly rich and subtle picture of the life of the province. Compiled and edited by acclaimed critic and writer Patricia Craig, the anthology is a tour de force - breathtaking in scope, magisterially orchestrated, rich in insight and full of unexpected surprises and delights.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
The Nature of the Place
I Take My Stand by the Ulster Names
I Give You Fuchsia Hedges and Whitewashed Walls
This Jewel that Houses Our Hopes and Our Fears
Nuair a Bhi Me Og
A Shared Heritage
The Linen Industry
Plantation, Siege and ‘No Surrender’
The Rebel Tradition
Confederations, Complications and Contradictions
Those Glorious Twelfths
The Famous City of Derry … and Ecclesiastical Armagh
Backroads
Towns of Tolerable Magnitude
Darkest Ulster
Poverty Mountain
Bright With Ancestral Delph
Some Generic, Gull-Pierced Seaside Town
It Goes as Follies
Sixty-Nine the Nightmare Started
An Ulster Imagined
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX OF AUTHORS
ISBN: 0856407925
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