The British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference has held its first meeting in Northern Ireland since 2006, after alternating ...

Mr Vance describes himself as being of Scots-Irish (Ulster-Scots) extraction, and his father attended a pentecostal church. At one time Mr Vance was an atheist, but he then converted to ...

I was recently asked to help name a new NI pub – but settling on a snappy option is difficult "One option is to think of a significant thing that belonged in the area and come up with names like ...

The Irish government has provided €40,000 in a once-off funding payment to the Ulster Scots Agency following a “reallocation” of funding towards the agency by Communities minister Gordon Lyons.

Cultural vandalism is forever rearing its ugly head. I saw a small but annoying example of it recently. Too often the term is used to describe a type of theft once associated with rich invading ...

Cross-border Irish language agency Foras na Gaeilge is to receive a "once-off" funding package of €630,000 (£547,000) from ...

The Ulster-Scots Agency is also receiving a one-off funding adjustment of £137,500, most of which is from Stormont and the rest from the Irish government. The NSMC was set up under the 1998 Good ...

The overwhelming majority of applications are for Irish to feature along with English, but as of last month, there have also been 161 applications for consultations on Ulster Scots to feature on ...