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"Ulster's narrative tradition... has been comprehensively and thoroughly analysed by John Wilson Foster in his Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction, a long and illuminating study."

• Laura Pelaschiar, Writing the North (1998)

 “The best book I know on the psychological stresses and tensions of my native province . . . and on the allegorising process which we tend to adopt”

• John Hewitt, poet and literary historian

“John Wilson Foster is at once the master and servant of that Ulster experience which he has explored with discipline, affection and excitement”

• Eavan Boland, poet