18 – Asking For Trouble.
19 – In the poem, ‘Disenchantments’.
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Acknowledgements
I am grateful to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and especially to Damian Smyth and Craig Corsar, whose award of a grant in 2010 helped enormously in the preparation of this book. I should also like to thank the Society of Authors for much appreciated financial assistance.
A Twisted Root (whose working title was Scullabogue), grew out of its predecessor, Asking for Trouble, and out of the researches and family papers of two cousins, Harry Tipping (the dedicatee of A Twisted Root) and George Hinds, both of whom supplied encouragement as well as practical information. I owe them an inestimable debt.
I am also grateful, as ever, to Douglas Carson who read the early chapters and made valuable suggestions; and, for various kinds of help, to Jerome Tipping, Brian Tipping, Erskine Holmes, Margaret Gatt, Yvonne Lloyd, Sally Craig, Dave Fisher, David Parks, Fiona Coyle, Mary Cosgrove, Polly Devlin, Maire Mac Sheain, Maire Nic Mhaolain, Angelique Day, Derek Mahon, Joe Graham, Tom Dunne, Joan Maguire, George McDowell, Anne Devlin, Jim Campbell, Michael Longley, Val Warner, Naomi May and Patricia Mallon.
I should like to thank Chris Agee who published a version of the Introduction in Irish Pages. Thanks are due, as well, to John Killen of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast; to Patricia Walker of Belfast Central Library; and to Diarmuid Kennedy of the McClay Library at Queen’s University, Belfast.
I am fortunate in benefiting from the expertise of the inspired and indefatigable Blackstaff team, in particular Helen Wright and Patsy Horton (and if I haven’t always acted on their advice – on my own head be it). No publishers could be more supportive or enthusiastic.
Finally, the project would never have come to fruition without the intellectual sustenance and invigorating encouragement of my husband Jeffrey Morgan. I am grateful for this, and for much else besides.
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