Steinbeck's Redemption

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Walking the Cassie cattle trail: 5. The final stretch - to Dalway's Bawn

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Leaving  Poag's Hill on the last section of my walk with Ray Cowan along the old cattle trail from the Commons to Dalway's Bawn, the...
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Walking the Cassie cattle trail: 4. Onwards to Porg Hill

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  Leaving the witch thorn and stories of fairies behind, Ray Cowan and I journeyed on towards the next landmark - a hill rising to ov...
Thursday, 17 November 2011

Walking the Cassie cattle trail: 3. More light on the Witchthorn

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Before moving on from the site of the Bellahill witch thorn and the Witchthorn National School ( just past the Resting Slap on the Cassie a...
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Friday, 11 November 2011

Walking the Cassie cattle trail: 2. From the 'Resting Slap' to the Witchthorn

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Leaving the Resting Slap with its views of Belfast Lough and Carrick Castle, the Cassie trail opens up from an overgrown path to a tractor...
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Philip Robinson
I was born and raised in east Antrim, Northern Ireland. Married to Helen, with one son (Fergus) and two daughters, Amy and Beth. Been living in the Ards Peninsula, Co. Down for 25 years now. I used to work as a Curator at the Ulster Folk Museum. Got that job on the strength of a Ph.D on the 17th century Plantation of Ulster. Main academic interests were vernacular houses, Irish and Ulster-Scots (Scotch-Irish)folklore and the Ulster-Plantation. Now pensioned off as an office trouble-maker, and in retirement have published 4 novels, 2 books of poems and 2 children's books (and do a bit of adult teaching, including a year as Arts Council 'Ulster-Scots Writer in the Community'). In politics, post-party (not quite anarchist - yet!) and in religion, post-denominational.
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