The Sound of the Shuttle: Essays on Cultural Belonging & Protestantism in Northern Ireland

by Gerald Dawe

The Sound of the Shuttle is an eloquent and compelling selection of essays written over four decades by Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe, exploring the difficult and at times neglected territory of cultural belonging and northern Protestantism. The title, taken from a letter of John Keats during a journey through the north-east in 1818, evokes the lives, now erased from history, of the thousands of workers in the linen industry, tobacco factories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788551060
• ISBN13: 9781788551069
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"