Readinghiswordsnowis like exhuming a historical record of dreams, hopes, anxieties and speculations - the flimsy litter and remnants that are some of the more corruptible Parts of history.
George Birmingham , a Church of Ireland minister and popular novelist, wrote The Red
Hand of Ulster in reaction to events surrounding the Home Rule Bill of 1912. Ulster poet Tom Paulin reflects on the impressions of history taken by this Particular fiction.