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Further Essays of Robert Lynd (1942) Things One Hears (1945), illustrated by Claire Oldham [Wikidata] Essays on Life and Literature (1951) Books and Writers (1952) Essays by Robert Lynd (1959) Galway of the Races – Selected essays (1990), edited by Sean McMahon; Without Glasses – abridged
Though the books of Forrest Reid (1875–1947) are not well known today, he has been labelled 'the first Ulster novelist of European stature', and comparisons have been drawn between his own coming of age novel of Protestant Belfast, Following Darkness (1912), and James Joyce's seminal novel of growing up in Catholic Dublin, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
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Born in Belfast, he was the youngest son of a Protestant family of twelve, six of whom survived. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.His father, Robert Reid (1825–1881), was the manager of a felt works, having failed as a shipowner at Liverpool, [2] and came from a well-established upper-middle-class Ulster family; his mother, Frances Matilda, was his father's second ...
Eureka Street is a novel by Northern Irish author Robert McLiam Wilson, published in 1996 in the UK (1997 in the US), it focuses on the lives of two Belfast friends, one Catholic and one Protestant, shortly before and after the IRA ceasefire in 1994. A BBC TV adaptation of Eureka Street was broadcast in 1999. [1]
In addition to writing novels, Patterson also makes documentaries for the BBC, and has published his collected journalistic writings as Lapsed Protestant (2006). He has written plays for Radio 3 and Radio 4, and co-wrote with Colin Carberry the screenplay of the 2013 film Good Vibrations, about the music scene in Belfast during the late 1970s [3] (based on the true story of Terri Hooley).
A Night in November follows Kenneth Norman McCallister, a Protestant dole clerk working in Belfast, Northern Ireland.He has "cleanly discriminated" against Catholics throughout his life, and indeed he gains much pleasure when he gets accepted into the golf club ahead of his Catholic boss.
An Ceathrú Póilí was renovated in 2011 with Irish president Mary McAleese re-opening the cultural centre in 2011. [5] The shop began selling online in September 2016. It hosts regular book launches in collaboration with publishers Coiscéim , Cló Iar-Chonnacht and An Gúm .