The Ulster Scots hotline that's gone stone cold Voicemail service not used...

Belfast Telegraph;  May 3, 2007 ;     420 words ......explanatory message in Ulster Scots. It advised callers...background to the voicemail service, a DCAL spokesman...the use of Irish and Ulster Scots. "It also creates...submissions in Irish and Ulster Scots. "The Northern Ireland...allows an Irish or Ulster ...

Ulster Scots novel revived.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  November 23, 2004 ;     366 words ...Byline: BY DAVID YOUNG A LONG forgotten Ulster Scots novel about 19th century life in Co...work has proved a useful resource for Ulster Scots revivalists as his characters speak...the Sod provides a unique glimpse of Ulster Scots life in a time before photographs and...

Committee first for Ulster Scots.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  November 10, 2001 ;     263 words ......local authority committee devoted to the Ulster Scots tradition was launched yesterday by...as a forum for the promotion of the Ulster Scots language and culture in the area. The...language. Readings and music in the Ulster Scots tradition accompanied the launch of...

New Ulster Scots chairman satisfied with cash controls

Belfast Telegraph;  October 6, 2005 ;     321 words ......Laird's successor at the helm of the Ulster Scots Agency today said he was satisfied...father-of-three became involved in the Ulster Scots Language Society in his early twenties. "Before Ulster Scots was even on the radar there was a small...

BBC language debate snubbed by Ulster Scots.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  November 10, 1998 ;     368 words ...THE ROW over whether Ulster Scots is a language flared up again when...issue. Nelson McCausland of the Ulster Scots Heritage Council told the makers...Kirk, himself a Scot, stating that Ulster Scots is an offshoot of English. The...

Peer hails Ulster Scots rise

Belfast Telegraph;  July 26, 2003 ;     191 words ...ULSTER Scots is the fastest growing cultural movement in Europe, according to Lord Laird of Artigarvan, chairman of the Ulster Scots Agency. He said there were now almost 100 Ulster Scots groups operating on both sides of the border. "While...

Sounds of silence on Ulster Scots phone line

Belfast Telegraph;  October 23, 2008 ;     222 words ...THE Government's Ulster Scots voicemail line is still awaiting...Northern Ireland Civil Service in Ulster Scots. But official figures have shown...confirmed that the messages tally to the Ulster Scots number - 028 9025 8924 - still sits...

Make 2003 the year of equality for Ulster Scots.(News)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  January 4, 2003 ;     666 words ......much time, effort and space into the Ulster Scots movement in his column in this paper...of diehards, Alex is so dismissive of Ulster Scots that he devotes considerable energy...totally to have missed the point of the Ulster Scots revival. The Belfast Agreement, together...

Jigging for joy as Ulster Scots take tartan talk to the worldwide...

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  March 11, 2003 ;     311 words ......tartan helped set the tone when the Ulster Scots Agency launched its new website yesterday...which aims to provide information about Ulster Scots, said to be the fastest growing cultural...western Europe. The chairman of the Ulster Scots Agency, Lord Laird of Artigarvan, said...

Ulster Scots Seek U.S. Irish Ties

Irish Voice;  April 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Colgan, Jim Irish Voice 04-17-2001 Ulster Scots Seek U.S. Irish Ties BY JIM COLGAN IN WASHINGTON, D.C. ULSTER Scots Irish in the U.S. want the same connection...In Washington, D.C. last week, the Ulster Scots Institute of Northern Ireland held...

New website to promote Ulster Scots A new website...

Belfast Telegraph;  December 9, 2006 ;     328 words ...Funded by the Ulster-Scots Agency and created by local born Dublin...Devenney on behalf of the East Donegal Ulster Scots Association, the colourful website clearly tells the story of Ulster Scots in the area past and present. To complement...

The Crack: Writing Ulster-Scots has many variations.(Features)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  June 28, 2003 ;     456 words ......differing approaches to writing Ulster-Scots. Thair's near haun es monie notions...wies o' thinking aboot screevit Ulster Scots es thair bes boadies tae hae...fur tha leid aloo tha screevit Ulster Scots bes onie newins. Gif thae fowk...

The Crack: Tha ither nicht tha An Grianan Theatre wus filt wi Ulster Scots...

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  November 1, 2003 ;     483 words ...GYE guid nicht oot! Accause tha feck o Ulster Scots fowk bide aist o tha Bann ye'd alloo...keekin aa tha paipers tha nearhan aa tha Ulster Scots daeins an baag nichts gaes oan aist...tha dusnae hae tha saime roughness o Ulster Scots boadies bidin in hit, hes, fer a'tha...

Language expert suspended after row He raps Ulster Scots website

Belfast Telegraph;  February 24, 2005 ;     287 words ...AN Ulster Scots expert claims he has been suspended...a former language consultant to the Ulster Scots Agency who has been consulted on occasions...for a quality-assurance procedure for Ulster-Scots translations but on whose behalf are...

Tartan Talk: What is Ulster - Scots?(Features)

The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  May 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Porter THIS week leading American authority on Ulster-Scots, Professor Michael Montgomery, and President of the Ulster-Scots Language Society, gives an introduction into what defines the Ulster-Scots, or Ullans language. In the twelfth century...