Steinbeck's Redemption

Wednesday, 7 July 2010

An uncanny gathering at Bellahill farm, near Dalway's Bawn, in 1953

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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...
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Saturday, 3 July 2010

Dalway's Bawn: The Early Scotch Dimension

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(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...
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Saturday, 26 June 2010

Dalways Bawn: The Earl of Essex's Plantation in east Antrim

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(This is the fourth of a series exploring the history of the Dalway cattle drove trail) John Dalway’s Bawn and his cattle ‘empire’ in east...
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Saturday, 19 June 2010

Dalway's Bawn and Cowboy Trail: The Irish Dimension

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Right in the heart of the Commons, just alongside the old cattle trail, is a spring-well marked on the Ordnance Survey map as ‘Bryan O’Neill...
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Thursday, 17 June 2010

Dalway's Bawn and Cowboy Trail: The East Antrim kye-way

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(This is the second of a series exploring the history of the Dalway cattle drove trail) Why was Dalway’s Bawn built? We know when, (it was...
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Friday, 4 June 2010

The year of the crowning in Eden

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The 'East of Eden' chronicles took an uncanny twist this week. I had just posted the last blog about Eric Glynn and myself exploring...
Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Dalway's Bawn and the Marshallstown cowboys

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(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 ...
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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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