HUMAN Archive

We're always looking for material for the archive at huarchive.co. If you have any @HonestUlsterman related material or small Irish literary magazines you'd like added to it drop us a line at hueditor@theverbal.co and we'll scan the material & return it to you.

Magazine of the day: Passages issue 3 from 1988. Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/286 for free! By the way, if anyone has issues 7 - 12 (or any one or two of them) we could scan, borrow and return let us know. We'd be very grateful! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting @VerbalArtsDerry

Pamphlet of the day: Ciaran Carson's The Lost Explorer from 1978. One of a series of pamphlets that the HU published over the years. Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/186 for free! @ACNIWriting @HonestUlsterman @VerbalArtsDerry

Afternoon. Here's another Irish Writing issue. This one is from 1956 and features Mr. Samuel Beckett himself! Plus a few other familiar names, inevitably all male...Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/553 for free! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting @VerbalArtsDerry

Heaney on Hewitt etc etc and a notable short story by the late Hugh Bredin

Mag of the day is Threshold issue 22 from 1969. Edited by Mr Heaney. And with a cover by Patrick Scott! Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/245 for free! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Afternoon. Here's an issue of Irish Writing from 1953. It's interesting how much Irish literary mags have/haven't changed...Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/551 for free! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Afternoon. We occasionally include relevant Scottish mags in the Archive. Here's the fourth issue of Scottish Arts & Letters from 1949 (we think) featuring one Ewan MacColl amongst others...Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/550 for free! @HonestUlsterman

Afternoon. Here's the Shop issue 10 from 2002 which is somehow over two decades ago. Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/548 for free! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Afternoon. Mag of the day is the Kilkenny Magazine issue 2 from 1960. Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/407 for free! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Mag of the day: Quarto Winter 1987/88. Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/211 for free! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

We're sad to learn of the passing of Fred Johnston. He was a regular in the Honest Ulsterman and many of the magazines that make up the Archive from the 1960s onwards. @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Mag of the day: issue 111, the last ever print edition of the HU from 2003. It was a memorial issue to James Simmons (who created the HU in 1968) & had died in 2001, the date of the previous issue (210). Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/119 for free. @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Afternoon. A bit of Northern Review ephemera here. A letter from 1964 explaining the whys and wherefores of the forthcoming magazine. I wonder what the May Festival and Festival 64 were? Thanks to Carolyn Robb for it. huarchive.co/items/show/545 @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Mag of the day is Rann issue 4 from 1949. Unusually one of Rann's editors was female. In this issue is also David Marcus who edited Poetry Ireland and Irish Writing amongst others. We should do a bit on editors...Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/344! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

An advert from Scottish Arts and Letters in the 1940s. Don't recall ever seeing an advert like this in any other literary magazine! Also somewhat ironic as there weren't many women actually in the issue. Perhaps many women read it...@HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Afternoon. Occasionally we add magazines that though not from here have Irish interest. Workshop 11 (1970) features Heaney's Sea Wife, later collected in Wintering Out with revisions as Maighdean Mara. Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/544 for free! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Afternoon. Here's issue 9 of the Shop from 2002. Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/543 for free! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Mag of the day: Everyman issue 3 from 1970. Published by the Servites of Benburb. Seamus Heaney was an occasional editor. Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/415 for free! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Mag of the day: Passages issue 2 from 1988. Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/281 for free! Passages lasted (we think) 11 issues. We have 1 - 6. Anyone have 7 - 11 we could borrow, scan and return? Drop us a line. Thanks! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting

Mag of the day. From 1997. Which somehow is 27 years ago. Brangle issue 2. Read it at huarchive.co/items/show/419 for free! @HonestUlsterman @ACNIWriting