Revising Robert Burns and Ulster

Literature, religion and politics, c.1770–1920


Frank Ferguson & Andrew R. Holmes, editors

Hardback €49.50
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ISBN: 978-1-84682-197-4
August 2009. 200pp.

In a broad-ranging series of essays this book, published in the 250th anniversary year of the birth of Robert Burns, offers a timely opportunity to re-examine the relationships between Burns and writers of literature in the north of Ireland.

Contributors: Andrew R. Homes (QUB), Frank Ferguson (UU), Carol Baraniuk (U Glasgow), Jennifer Orr (U Glasgow), John Erskine (Stranmillis College), Roger Dixon (ind.), Norman Vance (U Sussex), Colin Walker (QUB).

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Frank Ferguson is a research associate at the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies, University of Ulster, Magee. Andrew R. Holmes is a lecturer in modern Irish history, Queen's University Belfast.