Sons of the Sod: A Tale of County Down (The Ulster-Scots classics)

Lyttle, W. G.

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Language: English

Published by Books Ulster in association with Ulster Scots Academy, 2005

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Facsimile of original edition from 1890s, quality reprint published in 2005 with an Introduction by Philip Robinson. Based on real people and events as recorded by Lyttle in his capacity as a young journalist for the Newtownards Independent and Newtownards Chronicle. Set in the 1860s around Carrowdore in the Ards Peninsula in the heat of the Tenant-Right Movement, in effect Wesley Guard Lyttle was reporting and recording the variety of Ulster-Scots traditions, culture, language and the speech or dialogue is 'braid' scotch. 155 pages, plus sixteen pages of local advertisements of the 1890s at rear.

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Title
Sons of the Sod: A Tale of County Down (The Ulster-Scots classics)
Author
Lyttle, W. G.
Publisher
Books Ulster in association with Ulster Scots Academy
Publication year
2005
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Soft Cover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0954306368
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9780954306366
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