|
|
Article: ROBERT LYND: ESSAYIST AND IRISHMAN.
- Article from:
- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Robert Lynd, son of a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, was born in North Belfast on 20 April 1879. When he died in October 1949 and was buried in Belfast City Cemetery Sean McBride, Minister for External Affairs, attended the funeral as the representative of the Government of the Republic of Ireland. Conor Cruise O'Brien, at that time an official in the Department of External Affairs, was also there.
Although Robert Lynd had an international reputation as an essayist and was indeed considered in literary circles to be the best since Charles Lamb, the Northern Ireland Government was not officially represented at the funeral. ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Northern Ireland - a question of education?
Contemporary Review;
October 1, 1994 ;
700+ words
... ... regularly watched news reports on Northern Ireland would disagree with the statement of Dermot Quinn, that 'the Northern Ireland problem has deep roots ... and a political dimension to Northern Ireland's 'troubles' each intricately ...
|
|