The sound of the shuttle :
Dawe, Gerald, 1952-
The sound of the shuttle : Essays on cultural belonging and Protestantism in Northern Ireland / Gerald Dawe - Newbridge : Irish Academic Press, 2020. - xi, 170 pp. : 21 cm.
Includes bibliographic references.
False faces -- Telling a story -- Armies of the night -- Anecdotes over a jar -- Our high destiny -- The sound of the shuttle -- A kind of country -- What's the story? -- Cultural resolution -- Unhealthy intersections -- The hand of history -- Postcript -- References
The sound of the shuttle is an eloquent and compelling selection of essayys written over four decades by Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe, exploring the figgicult and at times neglected territory of cultural belonging and northern Protestantism. The title, taken from a letter by John Keats during a journey through the north-east of Ireland in 1818, evokes the lives, now erased from history, of the thousands of workers in the linen industry, tobacco factories and shipyards of Belfast.
9781788551069 :
Protestantism--Northern Ireland.
Religion and culture--Ireland--20th century.
Nationalism--History--Northern Ireland--20th century.
Northern Ireland--Religion.
941.608
The sound of the shuttle : Essays on cultural belonging and Protestantism in Northern Ireland / Gerald Dawe - Newbridge : Irish Academic Press, 2020. - xi, 170 pp. : 21 cm.
Includes bibliographic references.
False faces -- Telling a story -- Armies of the night -- Anecdotes over a jar -- Our high destiny -- The sound of the shuttle -- A kind of country -- What's the story? -- Cultural resolution -- Unhealthy intersections -- The hand of history -- Postcript -- References
The sound of the shuttle is an eloquent and compelling selection of essayys written over four decades by Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe, exploring the figgicult and at times neglected territory of cultural belonging and northern Protestantism. The title, taken from a letter by John Keats during a journey through the north-east of Ireland in 1818, evokes the lives, now erased from history, of the thousands of workers in the linen industry, tobacco factories and shipyards of Belfast.
9781788551069 :
Protestantism--Northern Ireland.
Religion and culture--Ireland--20th century.
Nationalism--History--Northern Ireland--20th century.
Northern Ireland--Religion.
941.608