Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Saturday, 1 August 2026

Ulster: A Journey

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Serendipity is "the gift for finding valuable objects of art etc by chance," according to my trusty Nuttall's dictionary. ...
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Saturday, 27 June 2026

Back Fire!

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Back Fire: A Passion For Cars And Motoring (2001) is one of my favourite motoring books. It's a collection of the Hon Alan Clark...
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Sunday, 7 June 2026

Round the Coast of Northern Ireland

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The Rev Canon Hugh Forde, sometime Rector of Tamlaghtfinlagan (Ballykelly), and a canon of St Columb's Cathedral, Derry, was author o...
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Thursday, 30 April 2026

Sketches of Olden Days

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In Coleraine, County Londonderry, there used to be a little book-shop tucked up a little side street - Society Street - close to the pari...
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Wednesday, 29 April 2026

Robin Bryans, 1928-2005

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Some time ago I recommended an anecdotal travel book to readers by an author called Robin Bryans. The book is entitled Ulster: A Jour...
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Saturday, 25 April 2026

Days That Are Gone

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Days That Are Gone  is a book published in 1983 about the childhood of the distinguished Ulster lawyer, businessman and writer, Sir Patric...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Florence Court: My Irish Home

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My dear mother gave me a wonderful hardback book when we were in County Fermanagh in 1979. It is entitled Florence Court: My Irish Home...
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Monday, 20 April 2026

Florence Court: Parterre

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THE EARLS OF ENNISKILLEN WERE MAJOR LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY FERMANAGH, WITH 29,635 ACRES  The five largest landowners in Fermanagh were...
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Wednesday, 8 April 2026

The Years of my Pilgrimage

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The Right Honourable Sir John Ross , 1st Baronet, was the last Lord Chancellor of Ireland.  Sir John was a son of the manse: his father was ...
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Friday, 2 May 2025

Patterson's Place, Belfast

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Prospect of Patterson's Place from Upper Arthur Street (Timothy Ferres, 2023) PATTERSON'S PLACE is an alley or mews that runs from ...
Saturday, 5 April 2025

Sir Charles Brett KBE (1928-2005)

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I happened to be in town (viz. Belfast) several years ago and, cognisant of the sale at the Linen Hall library's charity bookshop, loca...
Sunday, 30 March 2025

Plight of the Big House

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An unexpected visitor arrived on the 18th December, 2020, viz. J A K Dean, the distinguished author of several illustrated books about Ulste...
Monday, 17 March 2025

The Mitred Earl

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In February, 2012, I bought two used books at the Causeway Book Shop in the village of Bushmills, County Antrim. Sadly, that former A...
Saturday, 9 November 2024

Linen Hall Charity Bookshop

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(Image: Timothy Ferres, 2020) On a weekend several years ago I received a letter from my solicitor requesting a reply so, instead of doing t...
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Saturday, 29 June 2024

Ernest Sandford, 1913-2006

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ERNIE SANDFORD: A TRIBUTE TO A DISTINGUISHED PORTRUSH JOURNALIST, FROM  Coleraine Today Ernie Sandford, known to many friends as Sa...
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Saturday, 15 June 2024

Discover Northern Ireland

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I cannot recall how long I've had a copy of this guide-book. For me it encapsulates the very essence of Northern Ireland and the be...
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Sunday, 22 May 2022

Wodehouse Knighthood

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A fellow National Trust volunteer of mine contacted me in 2020, cognizant of my esteem for Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, and their creator, Sir P ...
Sunday, 20 March 2022

Alan Clark: Diaries

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I have been re-reading the immensely enjoyable Diaries Into Politics, by the late Alan Clark. The Hon Alan Clark, elder son of the Lord...
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Saturday, 7 November 2020

7th Earl's Havoc

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Patrick Marnham wrote a book entitled Trail Of Havoc . This is a favourite of mine, telling the tale of the 7th Earl of Lucan, missing...
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Friday, 8 November 2019

Dumfries House Book

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I was at home one day in March, 2014, when, somewhat unexpectedly, a postman arrived with a large parcel. He handed me the package and I...