Rowlock Rhymes – ‘Oul Portmoon’

Rowlock Rhymes – ‘Oul Portmoon’

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Typed words to 'Oul Portmoon' affixed to page - appears to be newspaper cutting. Uses local dialect. Mentions Portmoon, Bengore, Rachray (Rathlin), Innishowen, Moville, Cushendall, River Bann. Also Lochaber (Scotland). Page from loose manuscript of Rowlock Rhymes and Songs of Exile- a book of verse edited by Sam Henry. The author, Robert McMullan from Portballintrae, had the pen name 'North Antrim' and was "imbued with the Celtic spirit" and interested in the fishermen of the north coast of Antrim

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