Steinbeck's Redemption

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...

Saturday 17 September 2011 was a big day for these 'East of Eden' chronicles (and for me), as I met up with Ray Cowan after almost 6...

In 1860, two James Eslers (father and son) were living beside each other a few fields away from Dalways Bawn. James Esler, senior, was in th...

When I first read 'Tom Sawyer ' by Mark Twain as a boy it gripped me like no other book I had ever read. The stories in my other boo...

Since my first blog postings about Dalway's Bawn in June and July 2010, a lot more information has come to light on this 17th century ca...

The old cattle drove routes across county Antrim run east-west (across the grain to the north-south direction of most of the main lines of c...

The Commons of Carrickfergus appears on the 1832 map (see last post) as a vast, featureless upland moor, devoid of any evidence of human act...

Take these ingredients: 1. Dalway's Bawn; 2. The Cattle Trail across the Commons from Ballynure to the coastal ports linked to Scotla...

This is the second time the East of Eden Chronicles have taken a strange twist with the discovery of another old photograph taken about 1953...

(This is the fifth of a series exploring the history of the Dalway cattle drove trail) Although the Earl of Essex had died in 1576, t...