Ulster Scots

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
With the support of the Ulster-Scots Agency, the library will host an Ulster-Scots writing comp this autumn

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

Letter to the editor

Congratulations to the Orange Order for a wonderful day

Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis during a BBC appearance .

New language bill in Commons will give Irish ‘official status’ in N

Sinn Fein's Aisling Reilly gave a speech in Irish at the Stormont today

Full speech in Irish given to Stormont Assembly for the first time

Paula McIntyre has been creating all sorts of culinary delights in kitchens since the tender age of 14

Causeway culinary queen

Letter to the editor

If you don’t want Irish language electoral wards, say so now

Letter to the editor

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson must listen to grassroots unionists, not the upper class

Robbis Butler MLA speaks in a Stormont debate on Irish language translations of the assembly business. Tuesday June 15 2021. Screengrab from niassemblytv

MLAs back new language translation service after amendment

Ruth Dudley Edwards, the author and commentator, who writes a column for the News Letter every Tuesday. She is author of 'The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions' and her most recent book is 'The Seven: the lives and legacies of the founding fathers of the Irish republic'

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Linda gives hope to those who genuinely care about Irish

Translating MLAs’ Irish or Ulster Scots will come with a hefty bill. Photo: Kelvin Boyes/ Pool/Getty

MLAs consider spending £150,000 to translate their Irish or Ulster Scots words

Alexa controls most of the TV and music consumed in my house

Jonny McCambridge: Alexa, why can’t you speak in Ulster Scots?
One of the advantages of my role as a newspaper columnist is that my voice is communicated to you through the written word.

James Fenton.

Ulster Scots poet who was ‘a towering influence’

Presenters David Hume and Darren Gibson explore the upper floors Galgorm Castle.

Ulster Scot whose wealth came from a deal with the Devil will be focus of progra...

An evening of Ulster Scots and Irish language

Aghanloo True Blues LOL 656, David’s Brewster’s private lodge, as the hearse carrying him passes their Orange Hall on Sunday. Mr Brewster died last week aged 57

David Brewster was a lawyer, a unionist, Presbyterian, historian – and friend

Dr David Hume.

Encouraging response to Ulster Scots podcasts for language week initiative

Musicians Willie Drennan Ian Burrows and John Trotter will lead an evening of traditional music, song, and Ulster-Scots rhyme

Ulster Scots Language Week free online event

Mossley Mill, Newtownabbey.

‘Virtual field trip’ of Antrim and Newtownabbey’s Ulster Scots links

Charlie Gillen. 'Poet Laureate of North Antrim'

Rhyming in Ulster Scots with  a beautiful meandering river

Angeline King holds a copy of her new book, Dusty Bluebells.

Larne-set tale seeks to brings Ulster Scots to a wider audience

‘Covid-19 Advice’ poem on a poster, little boxes, two bards and a belle

Liam Logan

Ulster Scots poem ‘Covid-19 Advice’ and world’s tallest peak in lockdown