A Comprehensive Run of The Honest Ulsterman.
Belfast: The Honest Ulsterman, 1968–2003.
56 issues of the influential Northern Irish magazine, spanning four decades of the magazine.
8vo.; in printed wrappers. Overall in excellent condition; some fading and rubbing and occasionally minor soiling to wrappers.
The first issues of The Honest Ulsterman are particularly scarce; they include original work by Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon, Edna Longley, and other influential Irish writers, published for the first time in these issues. Thanks to The Honest Ulsterman, the Northern Irish poetry movement of the late 20th century gained traction and readers across Europe and America. The magazine was subtitled “a monthly handbook for revolution”, and the editorial note in its first issue states the publication’s aims: “It is a literary magazine; but literature starts and finishes with men talking to men, and the most important thing for a man talking to men is to be honest. It is the height of human ambition, and from it all good things follow [...] I hope this magazine gets into the hands of schoolchildren and the so-called man in the street, people who think that a dull life is inevitable, normal.”
Consisting of issues no.: 1, 6-8, 11, 12 (from April ’69, incorrectly labelled no. 11), 13, 16, 17, 20-22, 24, 26, 27, 28-31, 32–36, 42/43, 48/49, 53–56, 61, 63, 65, 67, 68, 70–72, 75-77, 79 –83, 87, 91, 93, 94, 96-98, 100, 101, 103, 104, 108, 111.