Ulster set to promote Scotland's 'ither tung'; Language of Burns is funded and promoted in Ireland, but remains 'the poor relation' at home

The Sunday Herald | August 17, 2003| | Copyright

Promoters of the Ulster-Scots language are to stage an audacious raid on the auld country to teach Scots about their own heritage and the legacy of the Scots language.

The Ulster-Scots Agency, which promotes the language - also known as Ullans - and culture of the people who settled in Northern Ireland from Scotland, is to organise a series of events in southern Scotland and Edinburgh next year, aimed at both educating Scots about their Ulster cousins and opening up the possibility of cultural tourism from the wider diaspora.

Along with a reception in Edinburgh and Burns suppers in the ...

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