'The Poetry and Processing of Anger' By Sam Burnside unpublished Isn’t there something pathetically pitiful when any man decides to interrupt the eternal plan of God and end a human life completely out of season?1 Fr John McCullagh, BBC Radio Ulster Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. Robert Frost What legitimatisation does

'Public Libraries as Mentors of Private and Public Imagination' By Sam Burnside Public libraries as mentors of private and public imagination. In Libraries – information and imagination. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and the Library Association (NI Branch), 42-52. Dublin: LAI/LA(NIB), 1996.ISBN 0946037 32 9(LAI); 0 906066 15 8

'Literary Materials Relating to the Siege and Relief of Derry' The Linen Hall Review, Vol 5, no. 3, Autum 1988, pp 4-9 Irish Booklore No temporising with the foe: by Sam Burnside In the somewhat limited canon of northern Irish planter mythology the Siege and Relief of Derry occupies an important place: it is

'Hymns in a Man's Life: Springs of Sense and Sensibility ' “I want to throw myself on the public street without caring For anything but the prayering that the earth offers…” Patrick Kavanagh Quoted in, Antoinette Quinn, Patrick Kavanagh, A Biography, ( London: Gill and MacMillan, 2001), p. 367. Language acts like an umbilical cord,