<p>Sarah Gomartin, the servant girl on Andrew Echlin's farm, bears a child to one of Andrew's sons. But which one? Her steadfast refusal over many years to 'bend and contrive things' by choosing one of the brothers reverberates through the puritan Ulster community, alienating clergy and neighbours, hastening her mother's death and casting a cold shadow on the life of her children.</p>

December Bride

Literature & Fiction

Bell, Sam Hanna

Classics

Blackstaff Pr

Art in Ulster, Vol. 1: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture for the Last Four Hundred Years to 1957

Hewitt, John Harold

Norman Splendour: Duiske Abbey, Graignamanagh

History

Carville, Geraldine

Europe

This photographic history of Belfast's Shankill Road and its inhabitants spans from Victorian times through to the 1960s. Vigorous, tough, fiercely proud, the Shakill is one of the most interesting areas of Belfast. Its social, trade, political and industrial life has long been of crucial importance to the city. Paul Hamilton, himself a Shankill man born and bred, tells the story of the Shankill before redevelopment wipes out the memories, along with the wee back streets, the shops and the pubs. The book includes a commentary, together with the recorded memories of Mrs Sarah McGrath, who lived, worked and reared a family on the Shankill through the hard times of the 1920s and 30s. The book presents the atmosphere of the Shankill at work and at play, at worship and at war, on high days and holidays, from Victorian times until the 1960s.

Up the Shankill

Hamilton, Paul

Class Conflict and Sectarianism: The Protestant Working Class and the Belfast Labour Movement 1868-1920

Politics & Social Sciences

Patterson, Henry

Social Sciences

Plantation to Partition: Essays in Ulster History in Honour of J.L. McCracken

Selected John Hewitt

Hewitt, John.

A vivid record of working-class experience at the turn of the century. The horse-drawn barges of the Lagan Canal once played a vital role in the transport system of Northern Ireland, carrying tons of merchandise between Belfast and the Lough Neagh ports. Personal memories of the surviving canal people -- lock-keepers and lightermen, bank-rangers and haulers, are included, as well as their favorite songs and poems from that period, together with documents from the Lagan Navigation company, and many evocative photographs from family albums.

Once upon the Lagan

Blair, May

Travel

<p>This best-selling history of Belfast from its beginnings as a river-crossing, through its centuries of radical politics and thrusting commercial enterprise, to its present state, is now established as the definitive book on the subject. Extracts from contemporary letters, newspapers and official reports, together with the memories of ordinary men and women, enrich the lucid and compassionate narrative, vividly evoking the daily life of the city.</p>

Belfast: An Illustrated History

Bardon, Jonathan

Anglo Irish Tradition

Beckett, James Camlin

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