'My Name is Rebecca' 'I cannot forget. That memory is always present: it is like a red-hot coal, resting among the blackened cinders of the past. It is a day in September. The year is 1983. I am walking along a Belfast street with my sister, Ruth.' Ruth Porter was killed in a bomb blast in

'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,

'Christmas at the Sunrise Bar' This is part of a collection of short stories that won the McCrae Literary Award. Other stories have been broadcast and have appeared in New Irish Writing and The Blackstaff Book of Short Stories. 1980 She was black-haired, big-jawed, big-bottomed and plain as a pint of porter. Every day

Editing for 'Borderlines' Borderlines, ed Sam Burnside, with a preface by Frank McGuinness, Holiday Projects West, 1988 (A collection of new writing from the North West)

'A Garden on the Foyle' "Acclaimed Derry-based poet Sam Burnside has taken inspiration from the monumental proposals to develop a massive £67m river garden around the Boom Hall and Brook Hall estates." www.derryjournal.com Listen

'Stretcher Bearer' Stretcher Bearer  (an extract) appeared on BBC Radio Foyle, October 2014. Stretcher Bearer appeared in a The Narrow Fellow, Journal of Poetry, spring, USA. 2015 ‘Stretcher Bearer’s Story’is collected in Forms of Freedom. Poems, by Sam Burnside, Lapwing Poetry, Belfast, 2015. (Stretcher Bearer was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize, USA, 2016) ________________________________ Moths have

'Mrs Nettlebed's Year' With Cover Illustration by Tim Stampton ISBN 978-1-908448-91-0 A new book for children Publication date 1st December 2014 In this richly vibrant collection of stories for children (and not a few parents!) you will meet among others Mr Dodder the Postman, Mr Tappit the Boot Maker, Mrs Goat and Brother Snail,

'Individuals Communities and the Notion of Progress' A discussion of some of the ideas that exercised the author during three decades of teaching literature and then during the establishment of the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry-Londonderry Contains a detailed account of the intellectual underpinnings of the development of some ideas them the establishment and  restoration of

'Rebecca's Journey', Extract from a Novel (in progress) By Sam Burnside Introduction Set against the backdrop of the troubles, the novel follows one woman’s journey between the richly diverse outer physical and cultural worlds of Northern Ireland and her inner world where psychological loss of balance intervenes in her pursuit of an  understanding of her own history.

'Hinterlands' Twenty five Short Stories Poems By Sam Burnside Four of these stories first appeared in the Derry Journal during the month of August 2018, illustrated by Joe Campbell The others were provided to the inaugural Literature Festival at Culmore. This is to mark and celebrate the creation and opening of a community hub in the newly