Arts Council welcomes launch of landmark publication The Arts Council of Northern Ireland today welcomed the launch of a landmark publication, The Ulster Anthology, edited by Patricia Craig and published by Blackstaff Press. The unique book provides a rich illustration of Ulster over the last 300 years, offering short snapshots from writers on everything from architecture, to history, to cultural comment.
Roisin McDonough , Chief Executive, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland said, “The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is happy to support both Patricia Craig and Blackstaff Press in producing this beautiful and truly landmark publication. Already a classic miscellany, The Ulster Anthology is an indispensable one-stop-shop for the most illuminating creative, cultural and critical writing produced in and about the ancient nine counties. It is a wonderful combination of the talents of one of our major individual artists and our most prestigious literary press.” Editor Patricia Craig commented, “My aim in producing this anthology was to provide a distillation of the great wealth of writing about Ulster. While I was compiling it I made many wonderful and unexpected discoveries – as I hope readers of the anthology will do”. Blackstaff Press’ Managing Editor Patsy Horton said, “The Ulster Anthology is a tour de force – rich and varied, quirky and surprising, it is a definitive anthology of Ulster writing since 1700”. Writers featured in The Ulster Anthology include Nell McCafferty, John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, CS Lewis, Estyn Evans and many others.
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