Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Ulster Scots”
Angela Graham considers progress in the last two years. In December 2020, in a blog I wrote for the Irish Literary Society, I asserted that in contemporary creative writing (that is, in the general run of mainstream publications) Ulster-Scots was all but invisible, A language without a lively, multi-genre, modern literary and cultural presence is one that is struggling. The …
By ANGELA GRAHAM Why is it so hard to find writing in Ulster Scots among contemporary publications? Has it gone for good or is it poised to make a come-back? Up to the mid-twentieth century it was commonplace to find Ulster Scots poetry and prose in literary magazines or in newspapers but now it is exceptional. Although there is a …
