White Row Press, a small publisher of Irish interest books

The 'White Row' or 'Gape Row' was a row of ten, single-storied, whitewashed cottages that opened onto the Newtownards Road in Dundonald, County Down until it was demolished in the 1930s. For reasons unknown, the cottages were built on top of a river, and lived in by what now seems a group of vividly eccentric characters. The Row contained a variety of shops including a post office, a cobbler's and herbalist's, a sweet shop where the sweets were laid out on the kitchen table with 'everything crawling over them', and the Lambeg drum player from the local 'kick-the-pope' band. The Row had one eye on the world and one eye on itself, hence its name, and after it went, came to symbolise things like authenticity, community and 'auld decency', in short, all that was good about the world and all that was bad about it, all at once and at the same time. What better symbol could you find for a publisher?