Here's another photo of the view across to the Mull of Galloway - seen through the break in the harbour wall at Donaghadee. Click to enlarge.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Donaghadee Harbour, last Friday
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Always learning. Born, bred and still living on the most easterly point of Northern Ireland - the Ards Peninsula - 18 miles across the sea from Scotland. I do lots of things- design, music, talks, trying to be a husband and father. This blog isn't an example of great quality writing or research, it's just a scrapbook pointing towards content that's of interest. © the author; contact me for permissions
Personal blog of Mark Thompson. Formerly Managing Director of GCAS Design in Belfast, Northern Ireland (from 1999 - 2006) and Chairman of the Ulster-Scots Agency (from June 2005 - June 2009). Thoughts on Ulster-Scots heritage, identity, evangelical Protestant faith, music and other stuff I stumble upon.
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4 comments:
I love these Scotland frae Donaghadee pictures.
BTW: I havena blogged for a while. I've moved tae twitter wi' all the rest o' the aged 30+ inhabitants o' the world.
www.twitter.com/sowingtheseed
There is also a quite recent essay by Richard Rankin Russell titled 'Seamus Heaney's Regionalism' that explores the theme of place amongst Northern Irish writers. Included are interesting discussions on Heaney's relation to Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English regionalism. Although there is also a substantial analysis of Heaney's writing and respect for John Hewitt, Robert Burns and the Ulster-Scots idiom of his youth. Indeed Ulster-Scots is one aspect of Heaney's writing that Russell celebrates as forming part of a Northern Irish regionalism that can be 'transhistorical, transcultural, and transterritorial' (p49). The essay can be found in the Spring issue 2008 journal titled Twentieth Century Literature.
Nice photo by the way
Dal,
Thanks for your comments - and that sense of regional identity was one of John Hewitt's greatest convictions. It's also one that I have a lot of empathy with. Many thanks, Mark
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