DOCSLIB.ORG

Ublishing the EARLY YEARS

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Ublishing the EARLY YEARS LOCAL ublishing THE EARLY YEARS Books have been published in the north of Ireland since the 1690s when Patrick Neill, a printer from Glasgow, and his apprentice James Blow set up shop in Belfast. In the following three centuries many thousands of titles have been published by commercial publishing firms, as well as individuals, societies, businesses, churches, sporting clubs and others. The desire to set down in print a history or a work of literary imagination, and to make that available to others to read (for that is what publishing is) is as strong today as ever. Neill published mostly religious books, including two editions of the Psalms which would have found a ready market among An Albion handpress of 1830 which was the people of Belfast. a refinement of the earlier wooden press. (Ten Point Press Kircubbin) The Psalms of David. Belfast: Patrick Neill, 1699. (Linen Hall Library) At this time all aspects of book production were done by hand. This meant that books were usually produced in small editions and were often expensive. However, such was the demand for books that by the late eighteenth century there were a number of printers and booksellers publishing not only in Belfast but in Derry (1735), Armagh (1745), Newry (1759) and Strabane (1771). At this time booksellers and printers were their own publishers, and like publishers today they had to estimate how many copies of a book they might expect to sell and also raise the capital to meet the initial cost of paper, type, ink and printing. One way of doing this was to publish by subscription, where An advert from the Belfast News-Letter buyers paid in advance. By this means a publisher for the publication by subscription in 1752 could estimate the number of copies he ought to of William Biggs, The Soldiers of Fortune print and also secure funds to meet upfront costs. to be published by Henry and Robert Joy. Newspapers often carried advertisements for (Linen Hall Library) books which were to be published by subscription. Publishing by subscription can still used today especially where a book relates to a particular society or location. LOCAL ublishing 18th & 19th CENTURIES Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the demand for books steadily increased. Many books were published locally and many were imported from England and the continent. The local newspapers carried advertisements for the stock of booksellers and printers, and reading societies were set up in towns and villages to encourage the sharing of resources. Of these societies the Belfast Reading Society survives to this day as the Linen Hall Library. One of Belfast’s leading publishers was James James Magee (1707-97) from Magee who between 1733 and 1790 offered an F.J. Bigger, The Magees of Belfast. extensive and wide-ranging list of titles at ‘The Bible and Dublin. Belfast, 1916. and Crown in Bridge Street’. (Linen Hall Library) The least expensive books were chapbooks, so-called because they were sold by chapmen or hawkers rather than through the book trade. They consisted of a single printed sheet folded to form a booklet. Mostly they contained popular tales or children’s stories and were illustrated by simple woodcuts. The Famous History of Hero and Leander. Strabane: A. Gamble, [1805]. (Linen Hall Library) In April 1847 two Belfast printers, Simms and M’Intyre, issued the first title in the Parlour Library, one of the most innovative publishing ventures of the nineteenth century. Their aim was to publish ‘a series of novels and tales by the most distinguished authors, at a price which will place them within the reach of the whole reading public’. They cost one shilling at a time when a novel cost five or six shillings. Simms and M’Intyre had a London office so the earliest titles bear the imprint London and Belfast. In 1853 they sold the series and the Belfast link was broken. Flyleaf of T.C. Grattan, Highways But the one hundred or so titles in their distinctive and Byways. Parlour Library no 7. green glazed-paper covers have assured London and Belfast: Simms their place as the forerunner of the and M’Intyre, [1848]. (Linen Hall Library) modern paperback. By the later years of the nineteenth century the technology of book production had changed radically. No longer was everything done by hand, and mechanisation saw more titles published in greater numbers and at lower costs. One of the most exciting developments was chromo- lithography, a method by which books could be printed in full colour, and in this one firm - Marcus Ward - stood out J.G Sowerby, At Home [In Verse]. from all others. Indeed on an London and Belfast: Marcus Ward, [1881]. international scale Marcus Ward (Belfast Public Libraries) was without equal, and deserves to be reckoned as one of Belfast’s greatest commercial achievements. Tantra Barbus an Irish chapman. LOCAL ublishing THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Quota Press The firm of Marcus Ward was wound up in 1899 and the twentieth century saw a number of publishing houses rise and fall, as well as many examples of what is often called ‘self-publishing’ (where an individual publishes his or her own work) and publishing by non-specialists (where a society or other organisation whose main activity is not publishing acts as it own publisher for a particular title). The Quota Press was the most productive publishing house in Belfast in the middle years of the twentieth century.It was run by a Miss Dora Kennedy from an office in Donegall Street, and between 1927 and 1954 more than one hundred Margaret S. Norris, Ebb titles were published. The titles included novels, poetry and Flow. Belfast: Quota and biography, and until the outbreak of the Second World Press, 1941. War most were printed in Guernsey in the Channel Islands. (Linen Hall Library) Thereafter the books were printed locally. Mourne Press As the name suggests the Mourne Press was based in Newcastle County Down where it produced a number of nicely printed books, some illustrated by woodcuts. Richard Rowley, Fifty Sonnets for Felicity. Newcastle, Co Down: Mourne Press, 1942. (Linen Hall Library) H.R. Carter Publications For a few years in the 1950s H.R.Carter published some handsomely produced titles. Brave Crack! includes early work by some of the best known Ulster writers; Lynn Doyle, Joseph Tomelty, Sam Hanna Bell and John Hewitt. Brave Crack! An Anthology of Ulster Wit and Humour. Belfast: H.R. Carter Publications, [1950]. (Private Collection) Self-published Love’s Entanglement is an example of a self-published title. No other work by this author or imprint is known. The design is influenced Self-published by the Quota Press books of the time. E.Gilmour, Love’s Entanglement. Belfast: Elmora Press, [1932]. (Private Collection) The poet Philip Larkin lived in Belfast between 1950 and 1955. In 1951 he self-published a collection of his poems which he had printed by the Belfast firm of R.Carswell. Only 100 were printed and few survive making it one of the rarest and most significant books printed in Belfast in the twentieth century. Philip Larkin, XX Poems. Belfast: The Author, 1951. (Private Collection) LOCAL ublishing THE PRESENT Blackstaff Press The last decades of the twentieth century have seen the growth of a vibrant local publishing scene and the establishment of a number of commercial houses. Developments in information technology put the design and production of a book within the competence of anyone with a personal computer, and this has led to an increase in the number of self-published books where author and publisher are one and the same. Founded in 1971 the Blackstaff press has to date published over 650 titles. Its first title was a book of political cartoons, and among the many awards it has won is the Sunday Times UK Small Publisher in 1992. Rowel Friers, Riotous Living: a Book of Cartoons. Belfast: Friar’s Bush Press Blackstaff Press, 1971. Begun in 1984 its publications are often based on collections of photographs of places and people throughout Ireland. Looking back: Photographs by Arthur Campbell 1939-60. Belfast: Friar’s Bush Press, 1989. Institute of Irish Studies Queen’s University Publishing was just one of the activities of the Institute of Irish studies and a number of important academic texts were published between 1981 and 2000. The late Ronnie Adams’s pioneering study of reading and literacy is one of the most notable. Ulster Historical J.R.R Adams, The Printed Word and the Common Man: Popular Foundation Culture in Ulster 1700-1900. Belfast: IIS, 1987. Founded in 1956 the UHF has produced a very strong list in all facets of local history. Among the most imaginative Self-published titles are the thirty or more lists of Gravestone Inscriptions which are an invaluable source for family history. This is one example of many where the author acts as his own publisher. R.J.S. Clarke (ed) Gravestone Inscriptions, Vol 1. Belfast: UHF, 1966. Cahir McKeown, Enniskillen Reminiscences. Enniskillen: The Author, 1993. Keeping track of local publications Northern Ireland Publications Resource Legal Deposit Under British legislation, one copy of every book, report or journal published in the United Kingdom must be sent to the British Library. Five other institutions may request a free copy within one year of publication: Bodleian Library Oxford, Cambridge University Library, Trinity College Dublin Library and the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales Most countries have system of legal deposit as a way of ensuring that the output of a nation’s publishing is preserved for posterity. Research carried out in 1998 suggested that only 40% of titles published in Northern Ireland were claimed under Legal Deposit.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Textile Accounts of Conflicts Linen Hall Library, Belfast January - March 2015 #Accountsni TEXTILE ACCOUNTS
    Dia de Visita / Day of Visit Victoria Diaz Caro, 1988 Photo Martin Melaugh Oshima Hakko Museum collection, Japan Textile Accounts of Conflicts Linen Hall Library, Belfast January - March 2015 #accountsNI TEXTILE ACCOUNTS An exhibition of textiles OF CONFLICTS and associated memorabilia commissioned by the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE), Ulster University, for the International Conference Accounts of the Conflict which took place in Belfast 17 & 18 November 2014. Bringing it now to the Linen Hall Library will allow exposure to an ample number of people and voice publically what the makers and sewers have endured and shared. In this exhibition, the first hand quilts, wall hangings, testimony of the destructive and memory cloths and multi-layered impact of conflict story cloths is drawn and human rights abuse, is narrated from Northern Ireland, in textile form and is accompanied England, Spain, Chile, Peru, by associated memorabilia. “War Argentina, Afghanistan, textiles are born from this urge to Palestine, Zimbabwe, South find a new language with which to Africa, Germany, Brazil, Canada tell a story”1. and Colombia. Using mostly only the humble The memorabilia which form part Retorno de los exiliados / Return of the exiles needle, thread and scraps of fabric, of this exhibition are at first glance Chilean arpillera, Victoria Diaz ordinary everyday objects, yet the women worked individually or Caro, 1992, in groups, often in a clandestine stories they embody; the tangible, Photo Martin Melaugh manner at odd hours, in their tactile memories they store in Kinderhilfe arpillera collection, burning quest to present to the the folds of the people who wore Chile/Bonn world their experiences of conflict.
    [Show full text]
  • Quality Library Services for People with Disabilities Ask
    Issued by An Chomhairle Leabharlanna (The Library Council) No. 234 October 2003 ISSN 0332-0049 QUALITY LIBRARY SERVICES FOR ASK ABOUT IRELAND WEBSITE AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE REPORT LAUNCHED The Equality Authority and An Chomhairle Leabharlanna launched Library Access at Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street on 11th September. The publication examines how services within the library are best delivered in a manner that includes people with disabilities and provides new guidance to libraries on how to make reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities. The Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and The Employment Equality Local Government, Mr. Pat “the Cope” Gallagher T.D., recently launched Act and the Equal Status the Ask About Ireland website www.askaboutireland.ie and the report Our Act require employers and L Cultural Heritage: A Strategy for Action for Public Libraries. service providers to Ask About Ireland is a showcase accommodate the needs of images of Irish heritage of people with disabilities. housed in the collections of local Service providers are libraries, museums and archives required to make reasonable changes in countrywide. Themed on the what they do and how they ‘Big House and Landed Estate do it, where without these Life in Ireland’, the site offers changes it would be very visitors a range of ways to difficult or impossible for explore Ireland’s colourful people with disabilities to history. The ‘Big House gain or remain in Experience’ is the interactive employment or obtain story of the rise and fall of the goods and services.
    [Show full text]
  • AGM-Minutes-16-May-2019
    The Linen Hall Library Minutes of the 230th Annual General Meeting on Thursday 16 May 2019 at 1pm Members in attendance: Ms Brigitte Anton, Mr S N Bridge, Ms Helen Broderick, Mr Sam Burnside, Mr Hugh Campbell, Ms Fionnuala Carson Williams, Mrs Alice Chapman OBE, Mr John Cross, Ms Dorothy Dunlop, Mr Ian J Forsythe, Dr R M Galloway, Mr John Gray, C T Hogg, Dr Eamonn Hughes, Mr W J Hunter, Mr John Johnston, Mr Gordon Lucy, Ms Lisa Maltman, Ms Noelle McCavana, Mr Christopher McCleane, Mr Rory McConnell (McConnell Chartered Surveyors Ltd), Mr Cliff Radcliffe, Mr John Roberts, Ms Nini Rodgers, Mr Oscar Ross, Mr Maolcholaim Scott, Ms Mary Ussher, Mr Barry Valentine 1. Apologies Apologies were received from Ms Karen Blair, Mr Peter Cavan, Judge Patrick Clyne, Prof James Stevens Curl; Mrs Anne Davies, Prof Simon Davies, Mrs Bernie Finan-Morgan, Mr Jack Johnston, Mr Wesley McCann, Mr Irvine McKay, Mr Eugene McKendry, Mr Jonathan Stewart 2. Minutes of the 229th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on 17 May 2018 The 2018 AGM minutes were proposed by Mr Simon Bridge and seconded by Dr Eamonn Hughes 2.1 Matters arising There were no matters arising from the minutes. 3. Reports from the Library 3.1 President’s Address Mrs Alice Chapman OBE, President of the Board of Governors, opened the AGM and looked back at the Library’s 230th year: • She said that she had been honoured to serve the Linen Hall as President during a year which had seen many successes as well as challenges. • She congratulated the staff on the 2018 launch of the Divided Society digitisation project and looked forward to the new “Seen & Heard” digitisation project which was currently in its development phase.
    [Show full text]
  • 2016 Annual Report
    AR Cover 2016_Layout 1 13/04/2017 12:20 Page 1 AR Cover 2016_Layout 1 13/04/2017 12:20 Page 3 The Linen Hall Library gratefully acknowledges the kind support of the following organisations: Cover photos (from top l-r): From the Presbyterian Orphan and Children’s Society: Generations of Generosity exhibition. Children taking part in the Creative Writing and Drama Project. Librarian Samantha McCombe welcoming the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, on the occasion of his visit to the Library in October. Annual Report 2016_Layout 1 13/04/2017 12:45 Page 1 Annual Report 2016_Layout 1 13/04/2017 12:45 Page 2 Children at Staging 2016 – the Library’s Creative Writing and Drama Project Annual Report 2016_Layout 1 13/04/2017 12:45 Page 3 Contents President’s Foreword Director’s Report Librarian’s Report Governors Staff & Volunteers 2016 Report Facts & Figures Financial Summary Statement of Financial Activities Statement of Financial Position Corporate Members Annual Report 2016_Layout 1 13/04/2017 12:46 Page 4 The Joys of Browsing from ‘Serenity in Landscape’ an exhibition by Sorrel Wills. Annual Report 2016_Layout 1 13/04/2017 12:46 Page 5 President’s Foreword From the financial report it is clear that the Library attracted significant sums of money to undertake important projects, such as Divided Society, which involves the digitisation of parts of our political collection; the Northern Ireland Literary Archive; and the popular Linen Hall cultural events programme. This is due to teamwork led by the Director and diligent management by the finance staff. Each application required strong ideas and subsequent attention to detail in the delivery of the projects, on time and within budgets.
    [Show full text]
  • The Political Role of Northern Irish Protestant Religious Denominations
    University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Supervised Undergraduate Student Research Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects and Creative Work 2-1991 The Political Role of Northern Irish Protestant Religious Denominations Henry D. Fincher Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj Recommended Citation Fincher, Henry D., "The Political Role of Northern Irish Protestant Religious Denominations" (1991). Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj/68 This is brought to you for free and open access by the Supervised Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Work at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. - - - - - THE POtJ'TICAIJ I~OI~E OF NOR'TI-IERN IRISH - PROTESrrANrr REI~IGIOUS DENOMINATIONS - COLLEGE SCIIOLAR5,/TENNESSEE SCIIOLARS PROJECT - HENRY D. FINCHER ' - - FEnRlJARY IN, 1991 - - - .. - .. .. - Acknowledgements The completion of this project would have been impossible without assistance from many different individuals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland. I appreciate the gifts of interviews from the MP's for South Belfast and South Wirral, respectively the Reverend Martin Smyth and the Honorable Barry Porter. Li kewi se, these in terv iews would have been impossible without the assistance of the Rt. Hon. Merlyn Rees MP PC, who arranged these two insightful contacts for me. In Belfast my research was aided enormously through the efforts of Mr. Robert Bell at the Linen Hall Library, as well as by the helpful and ever-cheerful librarians at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown.
    [Show full text]
  • ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation
    ABSTRACT Title of dissertation: SLAVE SHIPS, SHAMROCKS, AND SHACKLES: TRANSATLANTIC CONNECTIONS IN BLACK AMERICAN AND NORTHERN IRISH WOMEN’S REVOLUTIONARY AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL WRITING, 1960S-1990S Amy L. Washburn, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Dissertation directed by: Professor Deborah S. Rosenfelt Department of Women’s Studies This dissertation explores revolutionary women’s contributions to the anti-colonial civil rights movements of the United States and Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to the late 1990s. I connect the work of Black American and Northern Irish revolutionary women leaders/writers involved in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Black Panther Party (BPP), Black Liberation Army (BLA), the Republic for New Afrika (RNA), the Soledad Brothers’ Defense Committee, the Communist Party- USA (Che Lumumba Club), the Jericho Movement, People’s Democracy (PD), the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA), the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), the National H-Block/ Armagh Committee, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), Women Against Imperialism (WAI), and/or Sinn Féin (SF), among others by examining their leadership roles, individual voices, and cultural productions. This project analyses political communiqués/ petitions, news coverage, prison files, personal letters, poetry and short prose, and memoirs of revolutionary Black American and Northern Irish women, all of whom were targeted, arrested, and imprisoned for their political activities. I highlight the personal correspondence, auto/biographical narratives, and poetry of the following key leaders/writers: Angela Y. Davis and Bernadette Devlin McAliskey; Assata Shakur and Margaretta D’Arcy; Ericka Huggins and Roseleen Walsh; Afeni Shakur-Davis, Joan Bird, Safiya Bukhari, and Martina Anderson, Ella O’Dwyer, and Mairéad Farrell.
    [Show full text]
  • Decade of Anniversaries Toolkit
    Understanding Our Past, SHAPING OUR FUTURE Introduction Contents This toolkit is developed as a resource for 1: What is Commemoration? 3 community and cultural groups, museums 2: How to Plan your own Decade of Anniversaries Project 5 and heritage, organisations, councils and departments, and other organisations who 3: Lessons and Tips for Ethical Commemorations 8 are considering commemorative projects or 4: Case Studies 12 1. 1912, A Hundred Years On 12 events in relation to what is popularly 2. 6th Connaught Rangers Research Group 13 3. An Inclusive Covenant 14 known as the ‘Decade of Centenaries.’ 4. Artsekta 15 5. Belfast City Council: Shared History – Different Allegiances, 1912-1914 16 In this toolkit, however, we Community Relations Council projects to have guidance and 6. Border Arts 17 have chosen to use the term and the Heritage Lottery Fund support in acts of 7. Causeway Museum Services 18 ‘Decade of Anniversaries’. The that commemorations of events commemoration. The ‘how to 8. Connection & Division: 1910-1930 19 reason for this is a simple one: from the distant as well as plan your own’ section goes 9. Cultural Fusions 20 while there is currently a strong recent past have drawn through questions and issues 10.Ethical & Shared Remembering 21 emphasis on centenary events, significant attention in this that need to be considered 11.The Fellowship of Messines Association 22 not everything being decade as well; and these are when putting together a commemorated in our society worth considering in the programme or event and the 12.Home Rule? 23 today happened exactly 100 context of discussing how to ‘key findings’ detail lessons 13.The Junction: Laura Gailey Film 24 years ago, and those events did commemorate in a way that learned as seen in the case 14.Maiden’s City: A ‘Herstory’ Tour of the Walled City 25 not take place in a time vacuum unites rather than divides studies.
    [Show full text]
  • Maurice Leitch's
    ‘He devours her with his gaze’ : Maurice Leitch’s stamping ground and the politics of the visual Magennis, C http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2014.0125 Title ‘He devours her with his gaze’ : Maurice Leitch’s stamping ground and the politics of the visual Authors Magennis, C Type Article URL This version is available at: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/32796/ Published Date 2014 USIR is a digital collection of the research output of the University of Salford. Where copyright permits, full text material held in the repository is made freely available online and can be read, downloaded and copied for non-commercial private study or research purposes. Please check the manuscript for any further copyright restrictions. For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, please contact the Repository Team at: [email protected]. Caroline Magennis ‘He devours her with his gaze’: Maurice Leitch’s Stamping Ground and the Politics of the Visual1 In a 1994 edition of the Northern Irish magazine Fortnight, two up-and-coming Northern Irish novelists published polemical reviews of two novels: Glenn Patterson on Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man (1994) and Robert McLiam Wilson on Maurice Leitch’s Gilchrist (1994). Taken together, these effectively set out their manifesto for the representation of Northern Ireland in prose. Patterson was highly critical of McNamee’s novel, a loose fictionalisation of the Shankill Butcher murders with a cinematic aesthetic, claiming: ‘This is the city as cadaver ... a city whose mortification precludes all possibility of change’.2 Patterson continued to detail his views on the salacious and exploitative tone of the novel.
    [Show full text]
  • The IRA's Hunger Game: Game Theory, Political Bargaining and the Management of the 1980-1981 Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland
    University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons CUREJ - College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal College of Arts and Sciences 4-2012 The IRA's Hunger Game: Game Theory, Political Bargaining and the Management of the 1980-1981 Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland Meghan M. Hussey University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/curej Part of the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Hussey, Meghan M., "The IRA's Hunger Game: Game Theory, Political Bargaining and the Management of the 1980-1981 Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland" 01 April 2012. CUREJ: College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal, University of Pennsylvania, https://repository.upenn.edu/curej/154. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/curej/154 For more information, please contact [email protected]. The IRA's Hunger Game: Game Theory, Political Bargaining and the Management of the 1980-1981 Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland Keywords IRA, Northern Ireland, prisons, game theory, hunger strike, political science, ethnic conflict, Ireland, Great Britain, political bargaining, Social Sciences, Political Science, Brendan O'Leary, O'Leary, Brendan Disciplines Political Science This article is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/curej/154 The IRA’s Hunger Game: Game Theory, Political Bargaining and the Management of the 1980-1981 Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland By, Meghan M. Hussey Advised by: Dr. Brendan O’Leary A Senior Honors Thesis in Political Science The University of Pennsylvania 2012 Acknowledgements I would like to make several acknowledgements of those without which this thesis would not have been possible. First and foremost I would like to thank my advisor, Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Report 2018
    www.linenhall.com Took a wee break from the intensity of #wesconf18 to visit the 230-yr-old #LinenhallLibrary - highly recommended if you want some peace & access to a feast of Northern Irish culture & polical history. @thelinenhall Alice Rose @DrAliceCorble The Linen Hall Library gratefully acknowledges the kind support of the following organisations: Cover Photos (from top): LHL Director Julie Andrews. Acclaimed journalist Kate Adie OBE launches new Divided Society digital archive. From Belfast PerspectivesExhibition by Kevin Hamilton Contents We connue to share photos of libraries around the world visited by WPL staffers. This week it's the grand-looking entrance to the @thelinenhall in #Belfast #NorthernIreland The library, one of the oldest in the United Kingdom, was established 1788. #traveltuesday #librarylove Waterloo Library @WaterlooLibrary President’s Foreword 01 Director’s Report 01 Librarian’s Report 03 Governors 04 Staff & Volunteers 05 2018 Report 06 Facts & Figures 12 Financial Summary 13 Statement of Financial Activities 14 Statement of Financial Position 15 Corporate Members 16 From Stickin Out ­ Sketches of BelfastExhibition by Geordie Morrow President’s Foreword Imagine a haven of respite, cultural restoration and rejuvenation right in the centre of Belfast. What could be more enjoyable than to be performing the function of President for this gem? The Linen Hall Library has continued to deliver a menu of stimulating ntseve throughout the past year which represent a range of arts, cultural and tourist programmes. From exhibitions in our public spaces to the hiring of rooms for drama, poetry and literacy, we have continued to thrive throughout the year. Mindful of meeting the expectations of our loyal members, as well as owcasingsh to the general public, I am immensely proud of the achievements of the Director and the staff of the Linen Hall.
    [Show full text]
  • War Memorials As Propaganda Art and the Development of a Nation's
    CACPS UNDERGRADUATE THESIS #5, SPRING 2003 Questioning the Official History: War Memorials as Propaganda Art and the Development of a Nation’s Collective Memory By Mitra Keykhah April 3, 2003 2 A Senior Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. To my mother, father, and sister, who have always believed in me. 3 Acknowledgements v I would first like to gratefully thank my advisor, Professor Stanley N. Katz of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Research at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs for all the guidance he has provided me on this project throughout the year. v I would also like to thank Yvonne Murphy, John Gray, the staff of the Linen Hall Library in Belfast, Danny Devenny, Dr. Anthony McIntyre, Dr. Gordon Gillespie, Councillor Tom Hartley, Professor Richard English of Queens University Belfast, and Professor Bill Rolston of University of Ulster, Jordanstown for all their help with my research of Northern Ireland and the Troubled Images exhibition. v I would finally like to thank Lisa Sweeney of The Tori Collection on King Street: Contemporary Fine Art Gallery in Malvern, Pennsylvania for all her willingness to help me with this project. 4 What happened, what we recall, what we recover, what we relate, are often sadly different. The temptation is often overwhelmingly strong to tell it, not as it really was, but as we would wish it to have been. -Bernard Lewis 5 Table of Contents Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: Art and Propaganda 9 Chapter Three: Collective Memory 24 Chapter Four: Case Studies 40 I.
    [Show full text]
  • MS 21 Thomas Carnduff
    MS 21 Carnduff Collection About the collection: In 1986 I became curious about my father’s writings. Returning to Belfast after thirty years’ absence, I went to the Linen Hall Library but was disappointed to find only his last play, Castlereagh, and two books of poetry, Songs of the Unemployed and Songs of the Shipyard. Determined to locate the missing material, I knew only that four plays had been performed in the Empire Theatre, Belfast and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Letters to the Abbey Theatre archives, Trinity College Library, and a few of the institutions in Belfast produced nothing, and it was not until my next trip back to Belfast that I had my first stroke of luck. I heard of a chance remark by a member of Bangor Amateur Theatre Company who, having borrowed Castlereagh from the Linen Hall, discovered a different play tucked inside it, ‘all about Orangemen’. I guessed that the play was The Stars Foretell and went immediately to the Linen Hall where I found that, unknown to the Library, it was indeed with Castlereagh. Encouraged, my search began in earnest with letters and articles to the press and to BBC and Radio Éireann archives and to former members of the Young Ulster Society formed by my father in 1936. In September 1986, a copy of Give Losers Leave to Talk was left for me in the Linen Hall. A BBC producer directed me to relatives of Richard Hayward and Jimmy [J.R.] Mageean. Mageean had appeared in Workers at the Abbey Theatre in 1932 and, just two weeks after contacting his daughters in America, I received three acts of Workers.
    [Show full text]