Further Reading

A short list of books on this area, mostly published locally and worth tracking down secondhand if they’re out of print — prices and availability will have changed since original publication, so these are starting points for a search, not a shopping list.

• Lost Railways of Co. Antrim — Stephen Johnson (Stenlake Publishing)
• Old Portrush, Bushmills and the Giant’s Causeway — Alex F. Young (Stenlake Publishing)
• The Giant’s Causeway and the North Antrim Coast — Philip Watson (O’Brien Press)
• The Nine Glens — Maureen Donnelly
• Birds of Rathlin — Gerry Bond
• Rathlin, Its Island Story — Wallace Clark
• Rathlin’s Rugged Story: From an Islander’s Perspective — Augustine McCurdy
• A History of the Island of Rathlin — Mrs. Gage
• Flora of Rathlin Island — Margaret J. Dickson
• The Harsh Winds of Rathlin: Stories of Rathlin Shipwrecks — Tommy Cecil
• Historic Buildings, Groups of Buildings, Areas of Architectural Importance in the Island of Rathlin — C.E.B. Brett (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society)
• Rathlin Island and Parish — Rev. H.I. Law
• Sea Wrack — Mary Campbell
• Rathlin Island — North of Antrim — Hugh Alexander Boyd
• Notes on the Statistics and Natural History of the Island of Rathlin — James Drummond Marshall (Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1836)