Literature
The oldest story Ulster tells about itself — and the book Belfast gave the world.
Ulster Cycle · 1909 · public domain
Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster
Before there was a border, there was the Táin: Cuchulain holds the ford alone against the armies of Connacht. The Ulster Cycle, retold and complete.
Read in full →30 chapters
Novel · 1950 · in copyright
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Narnia, dreamed up by a son of Belfast — the wardrobe that opens onto another world, and one of the best-loved children's books ever written.
Still under copyright, so it can't be read here (and we don't link out). Look for it in any library or bookshop — it's worth it.
More Ulster writers. · Seamus Heaney · Louis MacNeice · Anna Burns…
Public domain texts, hosted in full on unissasi.uk. Sources in legal.