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Sicily Park in south Belfast. Photo by Google

Irish street signs to be erected beside loyalist estate in South Belfast

DUP leader Gavin Robinson has said he will never disrespect those who want to use the Irish language.

I will never be disrespectful to those who want to use Irish, says Robinson

Portrush actor Andrew Porter.

Portrush actor Andrew heading for the hills in Ulster Scots 'Waiting for Godot'

Senior News Letter writer Billy Kennedy met Dolly Parton in Nashville in 1995.

Dolly was an absolute pleasure to meet, says News Letter journalist

A review of Belfast Council's dual language signs policy is to be formally launched at city hall this week. Photo: Iain Gray/News Letter

Irish signs on hold: Council calls in lawyers as Sinn Fein pushes for more

Lee Reynolds congratulated Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann (CCE) for building relations across the community to showcase music and culture across the traditional divide in Northern Ireland in the Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann.

Fleadh should be the inspiration for future events – Ulster Scots Commissioner

Trilingual signs bearing historical and cultural information in Irish, Ulster-Scots and English in that order have been built on Belfast's Assembly Rooms. Photo: Cllr Michael Long/Facebook

Trilingual signs on historic building, after SF lose bid to exclude Ulster Scots

The Assembly Rooms on Belfast's Waring Street were bought by the city council last year, after more than two decades on the at-risk register. Photo: WMF

Ulster Scots vote: Sinn Fein claim trilingual signs 'tactic to block Irish'

A CGI image of the way one of the six schools planned for Strule Shared Education Campus in Omagh will look. Image: Strategic Investment Board

Anger as Sinn Fein targets schools for Irish signs, while blocking Ulster Scots

Belfast City Hall aimed to kickstart processes that could build Ulster Scots signs on four streets this week, but the move was delayed by Sinn Fein's attempt to scrap time limits on relaunching failed dual language bids.

Ulster Scots signs 'deserve crack of the whip' as SF move delays first streets

Victoria Road in unionist East Belfast is among four streets likely to be surveyed for Ulster Scots signs. Image: Google

Ulster Scots signs bids on four Belfast streets that rejected Irish language

The mural details prominent figures from hundreds of years of Ulster-Scots and unionist culture, from King William III to Edward Carson and James Craig.

Mural showcasing unionist culture to tour US with nationalist counterpart

The Education Authority is proposing to close Ballycarry Primary School next year because it does not meet the threshold of 105 pupils.

Concerns about plans to close ‘Ulster Scots’ primary school

The team who brought the musical Where Eagles Fly to the Speakers St Patrick’s Day lunch in Capitol Hill. UUP Treasurer Trevor Marshall, Gary Montgomery and Nigel Campbell, pictured with UUP leader Jon Burrows. Pic: Jon Burrows / X

'Turning up matters' - Jon Burrows says NI's voice was heard in Washington

Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots MLA held a celebration of Robert Burns and Ulster-Scots at Parliament Buildings on Tuesday. Soprano Rebecca Murphy and Piper Grahame Harris performed during the event in the Great Hall

Assembly Speaker Edwin Poots holds a celebration of Robert Burns at Stormont

Celebrations of the 250th anniversary of America signing the Declaration of Independence are due to happen this summer.

Ulster Scots USA 250th celebrations could offend Native Americans - Sinn Fein
Ulster Scots celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the creation of the United States could offend Native Americans, Sinn Fein have complained, stating they should instead be “a commemoration”.
Iain Gray

UUP councillor Glenn Barr at a Irish-language lead district boundary sign in Rathfriland. Newry Mourne and Down District Council has voted to impose similar signs at every town and village in the borough - even if they have voted against them in consultations.

Council agrees to create Ulster Scots group after walk out

‘Me caaaappp!’ I love to wear a flat cap

Jonny McCambridge: My unerring love of a flat cap

East Londonderry UUP Association Chairman Robert Carmichael.

East Londonderry UUP launches campaign to save town land names

11th night community event organised by Castlederg Young Loyalists Flute Band, 2025

Twelfth community events deserve more praise

Texas man Robert Johnson takes a selfie with what had been a picturesque river in the background - but which now has the appearance of a massive muddy brown lake.

Texas Ulster Scots leader asks NI to pray for flood victims

Grace Moffett, aged 11, watches an Orange Order parade in Belfast as part of the 'Twelfth of July' celebrations. Picture date: Friday July 12, 2024.

GB News unveils live Twelfth coverage plus new documentary

Janet Caldwell, her husband William Caldwell, and William's sisters Rita Caldwell and Edna Jackson, pose for a photo during a street party marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day, and in honour of those who served during the Second World War, on Woodstock Road in east Belfast, Northern Ireland. Picture: David Young/PA Wire

VE Day: Young and old enjoy spring sunshine at VE Day party in east Belfast

Belfast City Hall.

Belfast Council approves more Irish signs in last two years than in previous 24

Communities minister Gordon Lyons with US President Donald Trump

NI ‘front and centre’ of USA 250 celebrations – Gordon Lyons

It was all change in America last month when Donald Trump was elected as the next president

Letter: History has the capacity to teach us so much

A pro-Palestine rally held in Londonderry over the summer. A similar event is planned for Belfast this weekend .Photo: George Sweeney

Chaos fears as three parades to clash in Belfast city centre on Saturday
Three separate organisations are due to parade around Belfast city centre at the same time this weekend, sparking road chaos fears for the already congested area.
Iain Gray

John Clifford, poet and folklorist, is to be honoured with a blue plaque.

Blue plaque honour for Larne’s legendary Ulster Scots poet

Belfast Council rejects trilingual sign bid

DUP and Sinn Fein councillors have clashed at Belfast City Hall

Sinn Féin and DUP clash over bilingual or trilingual signage on new greenway

Edgarstown Accordion Band

Ulster Scots Showcase set for SSE Arena

Dr Paddy Fitzgerald, Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, Bernadette Walsh, Tower Museum Archivist, Derry City & Strabane District Council, Aeidin McCarter, Head of Culture (DC&SDC), and Derek Rainey, Ulster-Scots Agency pictured at the launch of the 'Ulster-Scots and The Declaration of Independence' exhibition in The Alley Theatre

Events are organised to recognise Strabane's links to North America

The Mourne mountains and Newcastle Co Down.

'Ireland' tourism branding is approved despite unionist objections

A Scottish Highland dancer - Newry, Mourne and Down Council is to review its Ulster Scots policy.

Ulster Scots language and culture review after criticism over lack of policy

Some 700 people have attended Mourne Presbyterian Church in Kilkeel for the funeral of Ulster Scots activist Maynard Hanna.

Seven hundred attend funeral for ex-Ulster Scots ambassador to the US

William McArthur, the elder of the two brothers, was a generous benefactor of Methodist College in Belfast

The Methodist brothers who excelled in both business and politics

The Ulster Scots Agency has launched a new film about Ulster Scots settlers opposed to the imposition of laws without votes and trade barriers in America.

Agency marks Ulster Scots rebellion over trade border

Margaret Hill is a piper with Tullylagan Pipe Band in Cookstown. (Image: Dearcan Media)

‘I found my confidence thanks to my pipe band’ says Margaret

Ulster Scots enthusiast and author Liam Logan (left) and East Belfast GAA club secretary David McGreevy at the club's Ulster Scots evening at the Stormont Pavilion in Belfast on Wednesday.

East Belfast GAA celebrate the ‘Hamely Tongue’ in first event of its kind

Belfast City Council's policy on dual language street signs is under increased scrutiny from unionist parties on the council after News Letter revelations.
Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

UUP demand review of "undemocratic" Irish signs policy over equality advice row

Irish Language dual signage in Belfast City Centre.

Call to probe council policy on Irish signs

Tillie Hay

Tributes paid to the "legend in the Cregagh", Tillie Hay, after she passes away

Morning View

Editorial: We're one of few surviving newspapers that reported US independence

US President Joe Biden delivers a speech at St Muredach's Cathedral in Ballina, on Friday, the last day of his visit to the island of Ireland. Biden can try to talk about how the Ulster Scots made America what it is but he has shown over time to be anti-British. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Letter: The unionist message to America should be that NI is not for sale

US President Joe Biden disembarks from Air Force One upon arrival at Belfast International Airport on April 11, 2023. According to a local Ulster Scots leader, the Great Seal of the US, pictured, was designed by an Ulster Scot.

Ulster Scots welcome Biden tribute for their role in US

Morning View

Editorial: A clever speech in Belfast from President Biden

Irish culture, tradition, and language, are springing up unckecked. Ulster Scots, the indigenous people, are all but ignored. Unionist politicians are helping promote the Irish language and Gaelic games

Letter: Nationalists build for future, while arrogant unionists fall behind

US Senator George Mitchell co-chaired the all-party talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement

Paul McElhinney: Power vacuum: Why is the Ulster Scots’ message not heard in US?

The celebrated Scottish poet Rabbie Burns

Celebrate the genius and humour of Rabbie Burns with event at Ulster Folk Museum

UUP Councillor David Taylor

Unionist and Republican councillors clash over Irish language spend

Sinn Fein leaders protesting at Stormont in 2019 in support of an Irish Language act.

TUV warning over Education Authority Irish language offer

Some trilingual signage in Londonderry's Guildhall

One in nine MLAs wish to speak in Irish... and none for Ulster Scots

Letter to the editor

British citizens in NI should refuse to pay tax if treated differently

Robert Burns (1759-1796,), also familiarly known as Rabbie Burns, is widely regarded as the best known poet to have written in the Scots language. Poems by Burns that remain well known across the world today include 'A Red, Red Rose' and 'To A Mouse' and he is regarded as an inspirational figure for enthusiasts of the Ulster-Scots language

Historic library encourages Ulster-Scots enthusiasts to pick up their pens

Ulster Scots man Bonar Law was Prime Minister of GB from 1922 to 1923, when he resigned with ill health.

Fundraiser for memorial of Ulster Scots Prime Minister Bonar Law

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