This weekend, the much-loved 'Bluegrass Omagh' music festival returns to the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh, featuring an ...

Pennsylvania and Ireland have had a long and rich historical association. It stretches back to the era of William Penn in the ...

into the growing frontier of America into areas such as Pennsylvania. Leon McAuley discusses the range of words used in an Ulster-Scots poem by Charlie Gillen called ‘Flights of Fancy’.

Ulster-Scots is a version of the Scots language that ... were discriminated against in Ireland at this time - James fled to America after the rebellion was crushed. His poem The Passengers tells ...

The communities minister presented portraits of 10 US presidents with Ulster Scots connections to Washington ... second meeting with organisers of the America 250 programme, Mr Lyons presented ...

A selection of Ulster Scots literary, historical and folklore sources. The Supernatural in Ulster Scots Literature and Folklore Project was funded by MAGUS/Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure. Its ...