Titles

Titles

Land of the Free, Ronnie Hanna

£ 6.45

Paperback 115 pages

In May 1717, the Friend's Goodwill departed Lame harbour bound for Boston, where she arrived in September of the same year. The 52 passengers she carried were the vanguard ofa massive exodus of Ulster people to the American colonies upto the outbreak of the War of Independence.

This book traces the story of the Ulster emigrants and the Ulster-American people, which they became, between the years 1717 to 1782. It is a story of hardship and adventure but,most importantly, a story of the fight for human liberty. America's revolution owed much to its Ulster heritage and the 300,000 people who left this land for the New World in the eighteenth century.

The Twelth - What it means to me

£ 7.50

Edited by Gordon Lucy

The events of July 1995 and 1996 have reminded us that there exists a range of different (and often radically conflicting) perspectives on Orangeism and its contribution to cultural life and diversity within Northern Ireland

This publication is a compilation of short contributions from a wide spectrum of opinion on the subject of 'The Twelfth'. Contributors include: Jonathan Bardon, Tom Collins, David Cook, Gerald Dawe, Rowel Friers, Robin Glendinning, James Hawthorne, Maurice Hayes, Brian Lennon, Michael Longley, Alan Murray, Ian Paisley Jnr, Brid Rodgers, Chris Ryder and David Sharrock. It is intended to promote informed and intelligent debate and to generate a greater degree of mutual understanding.

Remembrance

£ 7.50

Edited by Gordon Lucy &Elaine McClure.

As a result of the two great global conflicts of this century many countries have a special day in which the dead of these myriad and other minor conflicts are remembered.

In the United Kingdom, prior to 1945, Remembrance Day was known as Armistice Day, so called to commemorate the day on which the Great War ended: 11 November 1918.

Irrespective of when the day is observed or how it is designated, for many people remembrance is clearly very important. However, at the same time, it gives rise to a range of different responses and emotionns.

This publication is a compilation of short contributions which explore these emotions and responses on a European-wide and trans-Atlantic basis.

Contributors include: Ian Adamson, Esmond Birnie, John Bruton, Viscount Cranborne, Archbishop Eames, Noel Flannery, Finlay Holmes, Samuel Hutchinson, Eamonn McCann and many others.

Remembrance is intended to promote informed and intelligent debate and to generate a degree of mutual understanding.

Cool Britainnia - what Britishness means to me

£ 7.50

Edited by Gordon Lucy & Elaine McClure

Paperback 231 pages

The very idea of Britishness seems to many people to be in doubt. As the twentieth century draws to a close and the new millenium beckons, now is an appropriate juncture to examine and assess the meaning and future of Britishness.

The publication, a compilation of some 60 diverse contemporary perspectives on Britishness, is intended to promote greater understanding of the issues and promote informed and intelligent debate.

The Ulster Cover-Up, John Morrison

£ 8.45

Paperback, 164 pages.

A history graduate of two universities and a prizeman in economics, John Morrison has engaged in several kinds of journalism and was for many years a regular columnist in a local Sunday newspaper. He has been personally acquainted with many leading figures of Northern Ireland political, social and religious life. The access he has had to events and to what lies behind them has revealed to him many areas of Ulster affairs which have been quite untruthfiilly represented to the British public and to the world. Urged on by friends and former readers of his column, he has turned aside from other projects to write this book, recording what has actually happened in Ulster in recent years and the reason why Ulster events have been the subject of so much disinformation and cover-up.

The Ulster Unionist Party 1972-92: A political movement in an era of conflick and change

£ 10.00

Paperback

The period 1972-92 provides the central, although not sole, focus for this work, written by someone who has witnesed at close hand developments and attitudes within the UUP. Included are detailed examinations of the role of the Young Unionists (particularly in the post 1985 era) and the UUP Members of Parliament. The conclusion of the author is that the Ulster Unionist Party, or more specifically the engine which drives it, the Ulster Unionist Council, needs reform if it is to meet the 21st century and the new political challenges which await it. In a very real sense the conclusion of this book has yet to be written.

The Great Convention: the Ulster Unionist Convention of 1892

£ 6.00

Gordon Lucy, Paperback

For historians it is an event of considerable importance. It was an impressive demonstration of the resolve of Ulster Unionists to remain citizens of the then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Convention also demonstrated a spontaneous solidarity in defence of that Union. Furthermore, the convention demonstrated that Ulster Unionism was a popular, broadly based, and democratic movement.

For God And King, the story of the Blackers of Carrickblacker

£ 8.45

James S. Kane, September 1995 release, Paperback

This book charts the long and distinguished history of the Blacker family of Carickblacker, which, as the reader will soon come to realise, was one of the most remarkable families ever to settle in the province of Ulster. 'For God and the King' is the motto of the family and one to which successive generations certainly adhered. All that remains in Ulster of this once proud family are a few place-names in Portadown and their crumbling gravestones in Seagoe Cemetary.

For God and the King has been written and published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of not one, but two great events that took place in the closing decade of the eighteenth century and in which the illustrious and most famous of all the Blackers played an important part. His name was Lieutenant Colonel William Blacker, the celebrated 'Bard of Armagh', who through his writings, songs and poems has left us a ascinating insight into the Battles of the Diamond on 21 September 1795, which led to the formation of the
Orange Order, and the United Irishmen's Rebellion of 1798.

Privatising A Church: the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church of Ireland

£ 6.45

Hugh Shearman

Foreword by the Most Reverend Dr Robert Eames, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland The Church of Ireland Act of 1869 disestablished and disendowed the Church of Ireland By separating the Church of Ireland from the Church of England, this made the first break in the settlement which had been established for Ireland by the Act of Union in 1800.
As well as having a great immediate effect on the Church of Ireland itself, particularly in Ulster where most embers of that Church leve, the effects of the Act extended also to several Presbyterian churches and to the Roman Catholic Church's College at Maynooth.

Since much of the property of which the Church of Ireland was dispossessed consisted of land, the Irish Church Act gave state aid to tenants to buy out their smallholdings and so it became the first of the Irish Land Acts, iniating methods which brought about a revolutionary change in land ownership throughout Ireland. his book deals with one of the major events in Irish religious, social and economic history.

The Walls of Derry: their building, defending and preserving

£ 16.50

Cecil Davis Milligan

The centre piece of this work is of course an account of the great siege of Derry of 1689. But the great value of the book is that it is much more than an account f that siege. Indeed the emphasis is given by the title. This is first and foremost a book about the Walls of Londonderry. The nature of the walls, their construction and their history are told with considerable detail. The history is told right down to 1950, when this work was originally published.

William Johnston of Ballykillbeg

£ 7.00

Aiken McClelland, Paperback, 135 Pages

William Johnston's main contribution to the development of Ulster Loyalism was his securing, between 1867 and 1872, the right of Orangemen to parade freely in their own land, and by so doing to demonstrate to the nationalist community with whom they shared that land, to Westminister, Dublin and the world that they were a potent political and cultural force in Ulster.

The historian and the general reader alike will now have the opportunity to study and peruse Aiken McClelland's biography of this enigmatic Orange stalwart who, through frequently ill and rarely out of debt, prepared the ground for the emergence of that more comprehensive and dynamic form of Ulster Unionism which James Craig and Sir Edward Carson were to lead.

Never Call Retreat

£ 7.45

Ronnie Hanna, Paperback, 148 pages

Ronnie Hanna does not seek to hide Grant's faults, particularly as chief executive, but he does ample justice to the energy and organisational ability which brought an end to America's most disastrous war. He has compressed thefacts of a comlpex and diversified lifestory into a lucid and masterly biography. 'Rory Fitzpatrick'.

The Ulster Covenant: A Pictorial History of the 1912 Home Rule Crisis

£ 7.45

Edited by Gordon Lucy, Paperback, 99 pages

28th September, 1912 was the day which saw the signing of Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant by which the people of Ulster showed their solidarity, determination and self-discipline when opposing Asquith's Home Rule Bill. The Covenant proclaimed that Ulstermen would surrender neither their 'civil and religious freedom' nor their cherished position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom' and would combine to resist the imposition of an unjust Dublin rule. In the cities, towns and villages of Ulster, the signing of the Covenant was a truly impressive demonstration of Ulster Unionist discipline. Martin Ross - of Irish R.M. fame - was greatly impressed by 'the unadorned and individual action of those who had left their fields,and taken their lives and liberties in their hands laying them forthin the open sunshine as the measure of their resolve.' In Ulster, the Covenant was signed by 218,206 men; and 228,991 women signed a parallel declaration associating themselves with the men ''in their uncompromising opposition to the Home Rule Bill now before Parliament.' A further 19,162 men and 5,055 women of Ulster birth signed at various locations outside the Province. By the end ot the day, the people of Ulster had demonstrated their resolveto the British Parliament and to the world.

Understanding Ulster, 1994, Anthony Alcock

£ 9.49

Paperback, 178 Pages.

For over twenty-five years the news from or about Northern Ireland has been uniformly bad: terrorism, sectarian murder, discrimination, economic shortage and social deprivation. Violence has claimed over 3,000 deaths and over 30,000 injured.

Why?

What makes the Northern Ireland conflict unique is that whereas elsewhere the world governments seek to retain control of areas where their supporters are in an ethnic or political minority, in Northern Ireland the British government would like to be rid of an area where its supporters are in the majority. This book argues that since 1919 successive British governments have shown little commitment to the Union, deliberately pursuing a policy of Irish unification by consent. This has involved turning a blind eye to Dublin's claims to Northern Ireland, ignoring and cold-shouldering Unionists, and accepting Southern involvement in Northern affairs. But if this has alienated and demoralised the Unionist community it has not shaken the determination to remain with Britain rather than loin the Irish Republic, while the emphasis on consent has merely served to frustrate the unitication hopes of Irish Nationalists.

The result is that both the Unionist and the Nationalist communities in Northern Ireland see themselves as victims, with nothing to say to each other, and the political vacuum is filled by paramilitaries.

Anthony Alcock is Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Ulster, teaching European History and Politics and specialising in the protection of culturally divided communities and the process of European integration.

The Highest Call: Ulster and the American Presidency

£ 6.95

Ronnie Hanna, Reprint

The roll-call of U.S. presidents of Ulster descent includes some of the most famous names in American history; amoong them Andrew Jackson, Ulysses Grant, Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon.

This book traces the lives and careers of the twelve Ulster-Americans who have served as president, but perhaps more importantly takes the story back to their Ulster roots, highlighting the common heritage which the American and Ulster people share.

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