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This is a cottage similar to what the parents of President Andrew Jackson lived in before they emigrated to America. The cottage in the picture is a museum the actual site of the Jackson family is a few metres away. The museum focuses on their lives before they left the Ulster Scots hamlet Boneybefore. The site also hosted American ww2 soldiers when they were stationed here. #presidentjackson #ulsterscots #USA

Epigram to a Liar
Hugh Porter

O man, but ye think much o’ truth;
Ye surely hae a hoard o’t
Laid up in store—for frae your youth,
Ye seldom spent a word o’t;
But falsity, ye mak’ a slave,
For every day ye wear it,
While truth, ye like your siller save,
Ay speakin’ lies, to spare it.

#Scots #UlsterScots #18thcentury #literature #poetry

Hugh Porter, (c. 1780–?) was a poor weaver but, unlike most other Ulster-Scots folk poets, he had the support of Rev. Thomas Tighe

EPIGRAM TO A LIAR
Hugh Porter (c.1780–?), “the Bard of Moneyslane”

Published in POETICAL ATTEMPTS (1813). Porter was a poor linen weaver but—unlike most Ulster-Scots folk poets—he had a patron: the local Church of Ireland rector, Rev. Thomas Tighe.
#Scots #UlsterScots #poetry

#wotdhaikuprompt trachle

I trachle easie noo
oul davy sez age
bis somethin' tae thole *

* I tire easily now - old Davy says age is something to endure

#haiku #poetry #micropoetry #ulsterscots

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"Thon boadie wud scunner ye!"

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Ulster Scots panel outside Dunlop Kirk in East Ayrshire. It has connections to James Hamilton. #Scotland #Ulster #Ireland #UlsterScots

One of the rarest 1916 Easter Rising publications of all.

A unique account of the rebellion, written entirely in Ulster-Scots by Bab M’Keen, a writer stuck in a hotel on O'Connell St, from the #MOF1916 collection.

#ulsterscots

Researching electronic language codes for software internationalization.

Ulster Scots hasn't got its own code in any live standard. The closest I've found is regular Scots, in ISO 639-3, defined as "sco". Are there any ISO standard nerds out there who could advise: could Ulster Scots could be a candidate for future inclusion?

If so, would definitely be interested in arguing for it's inclusion.

#Scots #UlsterScots #Language #Translation #Programming #Software #MastoDaoine #Ireland #Ulster

Ulster-Scots writers throw off the ‘English with a Ballymena accent’ jibes #UlsterScots #IrishStudies

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2022/11/23/ulster-scots-writers-throw-off-the-english-with-a-ballymena-accent-jibes/

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