Steinbeck's Redemption

The 'East of Eden' chronicles took an uncanny twist this week. I had just posted the last blog about Eric Glynn and myself exploring...

(This is the 1st of a series exploring the history of the Dalway cattle drove trail) To find Dalways Bawn as I did as a boy, you would have ...

The 'Round House' in Kilroot, just a stone's throw east of Eden in county Antrim, was where Jonathan Swift is supposed to have l...

Sometimes going back to the the green, green grass of home is disturbing - especially if the grass has been covered in tarmac and concrete ...

So the Old Orange Tree was published last year by the Ullans Press - with a change to the cover design as previously posted. This consisted ...

THE OLD ORANGE TREE by Philip Robinson 'Young Samuel Hamilton came from the north of Ireland and so did his wife. He was he s...

In the beginning, Steinbeck used 'The Salinas Valley' as the working title of East of Eden when he began to write it (simply 'S...