Earlier this month the DUP Communities minister announced his department would provide £250,000 of Stormont funds for events ...

Mills and weaving factories sprung up over Belfast and surrounding towns and many people, Ulster-Scots included, poured into the area from the countryside looking for work. These people who moved ...

Stormont’s communities minister says it will will take the form of a celebration at Mount Vernon, the home of the first US President George Washington. Minister Lyons told the BBC: “This is ...

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 Communities minister Gordon Lyons.

In a world of self-conscious nation states, the cultural connections of people who shared no single national identity brings problems of conceptualisation. Ulster Scots studies expand the boundaries ...

At present, dozens of collections of Ulster-Scots poetry sit on the shelves of libraries across the world. Many of these books are rare and difficult to find, or are too fragile to be handled any more ...