Book titled 'Northern Sketches: Biographical - Monumental - Social'

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2023.9/17/6
Level of description: Item
Title: Book titled 'Northern Sketches: Biographical - Monumental - Social'
Scope and content: Book authored by Bigger exploring various traditions and notable people. It is noted as being reprinted from the Belfast News Letter. Chapters examine the Big Downshire Banquet in Hillsborough on October 18th 1837, the St John's Day celebrations on 24 June 1845, Scrabo Tower and other monuments, the history of hunting in Killultagh, the life of Captain Francis Crozier (naval officer and polar explorer from Banbridge), Valentine Greatorex, also known as 'the Stroker' a seventeenth century 'Irish Faith Healer.' and William Dobbs, a naval officer who died in a sea battle near Carrickfergus in 1778. The book includes various photos and illustrations associated with the subject of each chapter.