Life
1870-1952 [‘North Antrim’]; b. Coleraine; became an authority on North of Ireland folklore, and Excise Officer. Rowlock Rhymes, Songs of an Exile, Tales of the Antrim Seaboard, Dunluce and the Giant’s Causeway, St. Patrick’s Church, Coleraine. IF2
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Works
Songs of the People (Coleraine 1924).
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References
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists A Hank of Yarns (Coleraine Chronicle 1940), 30 Ulster anecdotes, mostly humorous.
George-Denis Zimmerman, ‘Thematique de l’amour dans les ballades traditionelle irlandaises’, in Études irlandaises (Lille 1979), bibl.,No. 124.
Ulster Libraries: University of Ulster Library (Morris Collection) holds Songs of the People: Selections from the Sam Henry Collection (Blackstaff 1979). British Library holds under ‘North Antrim’, [pseudonym of Sam Henry], Rowlock Rhymes and [non ital., sic] Songs of an Exile, edited and illustrated by S Henry (Belfast: Quota Press 1933), 86pp. ill. [plates]. Belfast Public Library, Dunluce and Giant’s Causeway [n.d.]; A Hank of Yarns [n.d.]; The Story of St. Patrick’s Church, Coleraine [n.d.]; Tales of the Antrim Seaboard [n.d.]; Ulster Folk Tales (1939).
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