Ulster Scots Language event traces Ulster's heritage through the poetry of the "Rhyming Weavers".

The CEO of the Ulster-Scots Agency has said there are some in the community "who are waiting to be convinced" about the benefits of having an Ulster British Commissioner. New language laws came into ...

Image caption, According to the 2011 census, just over 140,000 people in Northern Ireland claim some knowledge of Ulster-Scots Ulster-Scots is a language which has been part of life here since the ...

The early attempts by supporters of Ulster-Scots - from "native speakers" to the Reverend Ian Paisley - to obtain government funding for Ulster-Scots language and culture are detailed in previously ...

The head of the Ulster-Scots Agency has said that the lack of requirement for the new commissioner to speak the language ‘reflects the reality’ of where it’s currently at. Ian Crozier, who is the ...

A strategy for the Irish language and one for the Ulster-Scots language, heritage and culture should be published in the coming year. That is according to the Department for Communities' screening of ...

BACK IN ACTION after a lapse of three years, Northern Ireland’s shaky government rests on a compromise so ingenious that it would impress a medieval theologian trained to argue over angels and ...

More than 150 people across the Borough engaged in music, poetry and storytelling events to mark Ulster-Scots Language Week ...

The appointment of an Irish and an Ulster Scots language commissioner has been welcomed. First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly confirmed the appointment of Pol ...

Secretary of State Hilary Benn has commenced a new law requiring Stormont’s Department of Education to promote the use of Ulster Scots in schools on the same day as repealing a 300-year-old ban on the ...

Northern Ireland's first Irish language and Ulster-Scots commissioners have been formally appointed. The new Irish language commissioner is Pól Deeds, the deputy chief executive of the cross-border ...