"The Adventures of Paddy M'Quillan" is the first of three volumes in the series Robin's Readings (originally "Humorous Readings") by W. G. Lyttle. First published in book form in 1879, it is a collection of stories based on humorous monologues that the author gave around the country in the guise of Robin, a County Down farmer, who spoke in what is widely known today as 'Ulster-Scots'. It is now approximately one hundred years since the book was last in print. This new edition, with reset text, includes an introduction, footnotes and an extensive glossary of words to help place the work in...

"The Adventures of Robin Gordon" is the second of three volumes in the series "Robin's Readings" (originally Humorous Readings) by W. G. Lyttle. First published in book form in 1880, it is a collection of stories based on humorous monologues that the author gave around the country in the guise of Robin, a County Down farmer, who spoke in what is widely known today as 'Ulster-Scots'. It is now approximately one hundred years since the book was last in print. This new edition, with reset text, includes an introduction, footnotes and an extensive glossary of words to help place the work in...

Based on actual events in mid-Nineteenth Century County Down, "Sons of the Sod" tells the story of how a young man from the Carrowdore area is falsely accused of the attempted murder of a local squire. First published in 1886, the book proved an instant success locally as it dealt with affairs still within living memory and referred to many colourful characters and families of the neighbourhood. The importance of the work today is not least because it provides possibly the best account of what life and the language of the ordinary folk, or "Sons of the Sod," was like at that period. An...