Category: Ulster-Scots general
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Submission to the Ulster-Scots Advisory Panel Consultation part 3: Human rights in the age of Post Colonialism and republican populism
3. Our Human Rights (p58) The expansive section on Human Rights is timely as it is becoming an increasingly pertinent subject, moving forward. Page 62: “Outside of the Bill of Rights processes, NIHRC engagement with the Ulster-Scots community was virtually non-existent.” This needs to change and increase as the report suggests. I did a very positive…
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Submission to the Ulster-Scots Advisory Panel Consultation part 2: forum for people from the different areas of Ulster-Scots to meet and understand each other better
2. Mature discussion among the different areas of Ulster-Scots. Page 20: Vision Statement child of 2022, adult of 2042. For better or for worse this Ulster-Scots child will most likely be living in a united Ireland. ‘Ulster-Scots’ is a catch all collective term, for a clutch of areas, summed up in the report as ‘Language,…
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Submission to the Ulster-Scots Advisory Panel Consultation Part 1: a Poets and Writers Day on Samuel Thomson’s birthday
SUBMISSION by Alan Millar, Ballymoney. The report is very extensive and detailed and if even half what is contained in it is implemented, then Ulster-Scots will be put on a far sounder footing than presently. Unfortunately creating political will and momentum is outside the ‘gift’ of the panel. But I have a few points to…
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Ulster-Scots and PUL identity: the myth of 400 years of watering down
ONE of the most common reactions to the idea of an Ulster-Scots historical narrative going back to the time of the plantation of Ulster as a point of arrival for members of the main protestant denominations here, is the idea that things have been well ‘watered down’ since then. This ‘watered down’ in 400…
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Reconciling the unreconcilable within Protestant identity: get yer mitts up kneevy kneevy nick nack
WITH major public debate ongoing about a possible united Ireland, sometimes it appears to me that the protestant and unionist community has been left hardly able to open its collective mouth because of constitutional conflict. This may seem ironic given the number of people from that background on social media slabbering heartily like the rest,…
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