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Romancing Ireland
Paul Clements' biography of Richard Hayward reveals a forgotten renaissance man -
Free Derry Protest and Resistance
Adrian Kerr's history of protest and resistance in the maiden city 'is a valuable addition to the Troubles canon' -
Plath – A 50 Year Retrospective
Academics commemorate the life and work of prolific writer and poet Sylvia Plath -
The Loughsiders
Shan Bullock's 1924 novel is republished by Turnpike Books, but is Bullock really 'the Thomas Hardy of Fermanagh'? -
A Twisted Root
Patricia Craig delves into her mixed Irish ancestry to discover Republican activists and the founder of the Orange Order -
Changing Times
Peter Smyth fails to confront the political inequalities that characterised our wee country during the 1950s -
Belfast The Emerging City
15 academics explain the city's rise to industrial prominence, but author Glenn Patterson's contribution wins out -
Eagle's Wings
'A unique and definitive history' of Ulster-Scots, Scotch-Irish and Presbyterians in Northern Ireland -
By the Banks of the Lagan
Ben Simon's collection of oral histories of the Lagan conjures up rural idylls and model asylums -
Belfast Shipbuilders
An admirable exploration of Belfast's engineering heyday