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

Ulster Scots, or Borderers, because they hailed from Northern Ireland and the border counties of Scotland and England--have provided a disproportionate share of America's political leaders ...

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

People from middle America and the middle South and Appalachia. These are the people known as the Ulster-Scots or ‘Scotch-Irish’. The history of the Irish in America does not begin with the ...

Jackson’s family was known to have been lowland Presbyterian Scots who settled in Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster. Then later the Jackson family immigrated to America. Andrew Jackson’s ...

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 ...

Once a former critic, JD Vance is one of Donald Trump's biggest allies. JD Vance, a self proclaimed "Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart", has been formally selected as Donald Trump's vice-presidential ...

The head of an organisation set up to promote the Ulster-Scots language and culture has resigned. Lord Laird announced on Friday that he is stepping down as chairman of the Ulster-Scots Agency. He ...

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 ...