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Promoting Ulster-Scots heritage

Promoting Ulster-Scots heritage

Scanned in from the Ulster-Scot, given away in Saturdays Belfast Newsletter
Will be online in the next week or so at www.ulsterscotsagency.com

Also if you live outside Northern Ireland you can receive a free copy through the post if you send a request to info@ulsterscotsagency.org.uk with your name and address included.


Promoting Ulster-Scots heritage

The Ulster-Scots Heritage Council was established in 1995 to promote awareness and understanding of the Ulster-Scots tradition in language, history and culture.

Since then it has developed and expanded to include the Belfast Ulster-Scots Festival as the annual celebration of the Ulster-Scots heritage.

The first Belfast Ulster-Scots Festival took place in 1999 as a one-off event. It was re-launched in November 2005 and was highly successful, consequently it is hoped that the festival will now become an annual event.

To help develop a festivals' policy and assist groups organising festivals, the Heritage Council has secured funding from the Ulster-Scots Agency to employ a full-time festival officer for the next two years.

Andrew Smith, from Banbridge, was last month appointed festival officer. He is a graduate of University of Glasgow, where he read Scottish literature and English language. He has a long-held interest in Ulster-Scots language, history and culture.

As well as co-ordinating the Belfast Ulster-Scots Festival, Andrew will be on hand to provide support to other Ulster-Scots Festivals across Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Irish Republic. He can be contacted at the Ulster-Scots Heritage Council, 218 York Street, Belfast, BT15 1GY (028 9074 6939).
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