Fermanagh Miscellany 2014: A Decade of Turmoil

Fermanagh Miscellany 2014: A Decade of Turmoil is an eighth collection of writings by Fermanagh Authors’ Association members. This volume focusses on events during 1912-1922, a significant decade in Irish history. The volume contains the articles “Enniskillen and the Ulster Covenant” and “Fermanagh and Home Rule in the Year 1914”, as well as local history, short stories, poems and reminiscences about events during the decade, including the Great War, Home Rule, the 1918 flu epidemic and the women’s suffrage movement.

The Fermanagh Authors’ Association was founded in 2005 to promote local writers and their work; authors from Fermanagh or writing about Fermanagh. Fermanagh Miscellany 2014: A Decade of Turmoil features work by Séamas Mac Annaidh, John B. Cunningham, Vicky Herbert, Dianne Trimble, Dermot Maguire, Sean McElgunn, Winston Graydon, Florence Creighton, Linda Swindle, Frank McHugh, Gordon Brand and Derek Davis.

Among the eclectic contributions to this book readers will find stories of Shan Bullock as a biographer, a granny who died in the 1918 flu epidemic, a Nationalist poet in the Inniskilling Fusiliers, a policeman’s anxious letter to his wife, Old Portorans who died in the Great War, protesting by post, the battle for the Belleek-Pettigo salient, a soldier buried far from home and the real W. F. McCoy.