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Ulster- Scots more than ‘a lock of words wouldn’t get you through the day’ indeed, more than just a language
LETTER composed in response to an article in the Belfast Telegraph on Tuesday July 26 by Malachi O’Doherty ‘Why Ulster Scots of today doesn’t reflect language of my father’ They declined to publish this version, but may consider a shorter one. Dear Sir Malachi O’Doherty’s recent piece trashing the idea of an Ulster-Scots language, highlights…
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Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission advice on the RIGHT to be British – which carries more weight, the person asserting that right by self affiliating, or the premise trasher telling them they are not British
I HAD a conversation on Wednesday (June 15) with a member of the legal team from the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, (NIHRC) which was good in some ways, more disappointing in others. How it came about was slightly unexpected. On Twitter a fellow Ulster-Scots bard happened to make an ironic post about the difficulty…
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Letter responding to Malachi O’Doherty’s recent Bel Tel column ‘Why we should be reflecting on use of term ‘planter’ today’
Protestants are traditionally stuck between the horribly low status accorded to literature by ‘Parading PUL’ unionism and writers/artists rejecting that background – Hewitt stood his ground
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Submission to the Ulster-Scots Advisory Panel Consultation part 4: Irish Government recognition of Ulster-Scots national minority designation
4. Irish government recognition of National Minority Page 63 “A commitment and timetable from the Irish government to recognise Ulster-Scots as a national minority no longer than eighteen months of this.” “Support from the Irish government for comparable work in Ireland as detailed in Recommendation 1 (e) above. (NI Executive) “ Speaking as a Donegal…
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Family ties and collective footprints – a human rights thought for Ulster-Scots
THIS Ulster-Scot has no family links to Scotland that are known, no known ancestors across the sheugh. The citing of proud individual or family links is obviously fair enough, and many do. Sometimes, advertently or inadvertently, this comes across as an attempt to skirt around or obscure tensions linked to the Plantation of Ulster and…
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Derry Derry not Londonderry – two giant leaps needed for Irish-kind, but it’ll not be nationalists or unionists doing them?
DURING my time at secondary school in the Republic of Ireland, a theatre group called Team Theatre visited occasionally to perform plays. One of them was a play called ‘Borderlands’, about the Irish border. I have no great memory of the play itself, but I remember a couple of things that occurred. There was a…
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Where’s my cut of the moral action you shower of gangsters?
Power relations a century on from partition and the creation of Northern Ireland
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A thought on Britishness in future Ireland
British identity is protected in the GFA and the language of Human Rights applies to Irish Brits as to everyone. In the event of a United Ireland, or even before it, we could see public bodies forced to change any emerging (NI) or historical (ROI) discriminatory anti-Britishness throu the courts even running counter to popular…
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