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Notes

 1. ‘Materia Medica’ is the study of the remedial substances and preparations used in the practice of medicine (OED).

 2. The International PEN Society is a worldwide association of writers, publishers and editors promoting freedom of expression. This society was particularly active in Northern Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s; some of its members included Joseph Tomelty, Michael McClaverty and John Hewitt.

 3. Quotation taken from an undated newspaper clipping of an interview with Fielden sourced in an uncatalogued archive at Queen's University, Belfast, 2005.

 4. Fielden, Island Story , 28. Hereafter page numbers will be incorporated into the text.

 5. Brown, Ireland , 45–78.

 6. Kiberd, Irish Classics , 521.

 7. Daniel Corkery, quoted in Ferriter, The Transformation of Ireland 1900 –2000, 344.

 8. Douglas Hyde, quoted in Brown, Ireland, 55–56.

 9. Kiberd, Inventing Ireland , 195.

10. Moore, ‘Proper Wives, Orange Maidens or Disloyal Subjects?’, 5.

11. Bennett, ‘Don't Mention the War: Culture in Northern Ireland’, 204.

12. McVeigh, ‘Is Sectarianism Racism?’, 210.

13. Cahalan, ‘Forging a Tradition’, 42.

14. Kiberd, Irish Classics, 520.