Introduction by Patrick Maume. I In Old Belfast
II The Clan MacMahon
III Mainly About Bangor That Was
IV Pews and their Occupants More than Forty years Ago
V Omitted
VI Great Organist at Bangor Castle
VII Kindly Curate and the 'Divil'
VIII Royal Ulster Club's Origin
IX Hesperus Becalmed off Black Head
X-XI Omitted
XII Wreck as Fishing Rendezvous
XIII From Garmoyle to South Atlantic
XIV Boats with Electric Names
XV Custom House Steps Reached
XVI Custom House Steps Recollections
XVII Purchase of Ormeau
- A Piano Story
XVIII The Petrified Eaves on Quayside
XIX Alabama's Hurried Flight Spoils a Projected 'Raid'
XX One-Time Picturesque Blackstaff
XXI How Solicitor Fooled the Court
XXII American Civil War and Linen Boom
XXIII Greatest 'Fry' City Ever Had
XXIV When World First Saw Dunlop Tyres
XXV Irish Jaunting Car's Merits
XXVI Pony-Drawn Cromac Water-Cart
XXVII Recollections of St George's
XXVIII Ulster Coat's Origin
XXIX The Royal Ulster Works
XXX Beggared by Kindness
XXXI Belfast's Main Artery, or Rise of Royal Avenue
XXXII In the Heart of Belfast
XXXIII Doubles of Royalty
XXXIV Unrecognised Festivals
XXXV Belfast and Darwinism
XXXVI Famous Belfast Firms
XXXVII Great Irish Artist
XXXVIII Wielding the Long Bow
XXXIX Dead Man Who Groaned
XL Presbyterian Champions
XLI Oysters and Singing
XLII Belfast and Jenny Lind
XLIII Duval the Versatile
XLIV Song that Saved 'Dorothy'
XLV Barton M'Guckin's Nose
XLVI Irving and Belfast
XLVII Belfast Musical Memories
XLVIII Philharmonic Jubilee
XLIX Belfast Music Stories
L Nightingales' Discord
LI Belfast Hotel Problem
LII Newspapers of Belfast
LIII Two Remarkable Careers Start in Donegall Street
LIV Belfastman on Woolsack
LV The Days of My Youth
LVI 50 Years Ago at 'Inst'
LVII Father of Lady Pirrie. LVIII Boys of the Old Brigade
LIX 'Murdering' Cleopatra and Wrecking her Barge
LX On the Stage and Off
LXI The Stage in Belfast
Notes.
"University College Dublin Press has now published over thirty ‘Classics of Irish History'. These contemporary accounts by well known personalities of historical events and attitudes have an immediacy that conventional histories do not have. Introductions by modern historians provide additional historical background and, with hindsight, objectivity."
Books Ireland
Nov 2007
"Scholars of nineteenth-century Irish and Irish-American politics should reacquaint themselves with these classics, part of a long running and immensely useful series from University College Dublin Press.
Patrick Maume has edited and written the introductions for no less than nine of the books in this series, lending them his breadth of knowledge and keen analysis that have made him one of the most learned and intellectually generous young scholars in the field."
Irish Literary Supplement
Fall 2008