April 15, 2025 at 6:00am BST. The Irish government has provided €40,000 in a once-off funding payment to the Ulster Scots Agency following a “reallocation” of funding towards the agency by ...

He is particularly concerned about general ignorance of period in the 17th Century dubbed the “Ulster Plantation”, which saw tens of thousands of Scots sent to Ireland to colonise the north at ...

He told the official: "The Ulster-Scots language is a sister tongue of Lowland Scots or Lallens' which over the past 400 years had developed its own internal dialects, grammar and literary tradition." ...

The focus of the research carried out will be on the Ulster Scots Diaspora. Both the common and the diverse currents of the Ulster Scots experience have been often ignored: the first because of a ...

The CEO of the Ulster-Scots Agency has said there are some in the community "who are waiting to be convinced" about the benefits of having an Ulster British Commissioner.

The early attempts by supporters of Ulster-Scots - from "native speakers" to the Reverend Ian Paisley - to obtain government funding for Ulster-Scots language and culture are detailed in ...

Ulster-Scots is a language which has been part of life here since the first Scots planters arrived in Ulster in the 17th Century. But more than 400 years on, it has become a sticking point in the ...

Dawn of the Ulster-Scots. Next week sees the commemoration of the Hamilton and Montgomery Settlement of May 1606, when over 10,000 Scots settled Counties Down and Antrim.

Image caption, According to the 2011 census, just over 140,000 people in Northern Ireland claim some knowledge of Ulster-Scots Ulster-Scots is a language which has been part of life here since the ...

BRUNSWICK Pre-Revolution descendants gathered at Curtis Memorial Library on Thursday to discuss history, trace family genealogy and the Ulster-Scot roots that led them to the Midcoast. The term ...