The Ulster anthology / edited by Patricia Craig

Includes index

Introduction -- The nature of the place -- I take my stand by the Ulster names -- I give you fuschia hedges and whitewashed walls -- This jewel that houses our hopes and our fears -- Nuair a bhí mé óg -- 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

This new anthology of writing about Ulster presents a complex, stimulating and often surprising portrait of the historic province.