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Derry Cittie & Strabàne Destrìck
Ulstèr-Scotch
Leid Week
25-29 I Nov I 2024
Further information:
www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots
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Supported by The Ulster-Scots Agency
@fairfaaye

Derry Cittie & Strabàne Destrìck
Ulstèr-Scotch
Leid Week
25-29 I Nov I 2024
Fair faa ye!
Join iz fer Ulster – Scots Leid Week 2024.
Ulster – Scots baes aa aroun’ iz, an’ Ulster-Scots Leid Week gies iz an unco
chanst tae lairn mair aboot the leid an’ tae mairk an’ celebrate the inpit at
Ulster-Scots maks tae oor city an’ airt.
The yeir Derry City an’ Strabane Destrick Cooncil ir sarious gled tae offair a
week-lang programme o’ daeins, taakin in taaks an’ ganches, creative screevin
waarkshaps, leid lairnin events an’ shoart digital films. Oor programme leuks
intae a wheen o’ differ themes at ir baith locail an’ worl’ wide an’ features a
wheen o’ differ voices amang thaim Ulster-Scots screeveners, poets, thinkers
an’ perfoarmers fae neir an’ far.
Sae gif ye onie hae a Wheen o’ Wurds, uise The Hamely Tongue ivry day ir gif
ye’re onie wantin’ tae fin oot aboot the Ulster-Scots leid, the yeir’s programme
haes sim thing fer ivryboadie.
Derry City an’ Strabane Destrick Cooncil’s programme baes kin’ly hefted bae
the Boord o’ Ulster-Scotch.
Fer mair wittens gae tae www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots fer the latest
newins.
Follae iz oan Twitter@Fairfaaye#Ulsterscots Language Week #Ulsterscotch
Leid Week #Leidweek
Aa the events an’ daeins in the programme ir free bit beukin baes needfu’ fer
in-person daeins.
Tae beuk yer place aa onie o’ the in-person daeins get oantae ulsterscots@
derrystrabane.com ir Teyyphone iz oan (028) 71376579.
Tak’ tent aa the programme micht bae subject tae altheration.
Derry Cittie & Strabàne Destrìck
Ulstèr-Scotch
Leid Week
25-29 I Nov I 2024
Fair faa ye!
Join us for Ulster-Scots Language Week 2024.
Ulster-Scots is all around us, and Ulster-Scots Language Week provides us
with a unique opportunity to learn more about the language and to celebrate
the contribution which Ulster-Scots makes to life throughout the city and
district.
This year, Derry City and Strabane District Council is delighted to offer a
week-long programme of events including talks, creative writing workshops,
language learning events and short digital films. Our programme explores a
range of themes, both local and global, and features a diverse range of voices,
including Ulster-Scots writers, poets, thinkers and performers, from home and
abroad.
So, whether you just have a wheen o words, speak tha hamely tongue daily, or
are just curious about the Ulster-Scots language, this year’s programme has
something for everyone.
Derry City and Strabane District Council’s programme is kindly supported by
The Ulster-Scots Agency.
Visit www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots for the latest updates.
Follow us on Twitter @fairfaaye #UlsterScotsLanguageWeek
#UlsterScotchLeidWeek #LeidWeek
All events in the programme are free but booking is essential for in-person
events.
To book your place at any of the in-person events please contact ulsterscots@
derrystrabane.com or call us on T: (028) 71376 579.
Please note that this programme may be subject to change.
Supported by The Ulster-Scots Agency

Mountain Talk:
Searching for
Appalachian roots
in Ulster Scots
With Meagan Jennett
Monday 25 November 2024, 1:00pm
Tower Museum
Lecture Event
The connection between Northern Ireland and Appalachia is often cluttered
with the low-hanging cultural kitsch propagated by that folkloric figure: the
over-eager and boorish American ‘searching for their roots.’ But what if there
was something to that figure? What do immigrants carry with them when they
leave? And what do they forget, to keep moving forward? What might have been
obscured by prejudice, or simple circumstance?
The linguistic community remains torn on the presence of Ulster Scots in
southern Appalachian speech. But this author, not herself a linguist, but a native
of the Virginia Blue Ridge, argues that, perhaps, lived experience and local
knowledge can offer unique insight into areas otherwise shrouded by history.
Where might Ulster Scots reside in the Virginian mouth? In texts? Where does
it pop up, even centuries after the first waves of Ulster immigrants swept into
Appalachia? This talk is a story: of a people and a language, and a rediscovery.
Like all great stories, it ends with a journey hame.
Meagan Jennet
Meagan Jennett is a poet, novelist, and current DFA candidate at the University
of Glasgow, where she is researching the multilayered connections between
Scotland and her native Blue Ridge, Virginia. She is the author of You Know Her.
Admission Free: Refreshments provided. Please Book your place by
contacting T: 028 71 376 579 or email ulsterscots@derrystrabane.com
Hae a Bite an a Blether
An introduction to the
Ulster-Scots language
With Dr Dayna Jost
Wednesday 27 November 2024, 12:30pm,
Green Room, Guildhall
Language Learning Workshop
In this session, participants will have a chance to engage with the
Ulster-Scots language at a basic level and discuss its origins and cultural
significance. Listening, reading and speaking activities in the session
are designed to help participants recall and notice words and grammar
structures that are in everyday use in the target language, while also providing
opportunities to expand abilities. All are welcome to the session, whether they
have ‘wheen o wurds’ or none at all.
Dr Dayna Jost
Dr Dayna Jost is a Development Officer with the Ulster-Scots Community
Network. She has been working with various communities in Northern Ireland
for the last five years through her research work in identity and community
relations in the education sector. With a doctorate in Education and ten
years’ experience as a language teacher, she is particularly passionate about
providing meaningful educational opportunities for people of all ages and all
backgrounds to explore the histories of the Ulster-Scots language and culture
and their many contributions to the rest of the world. Originally from Baltimore,
Maryland USA, she has lived in Bangor for 12 years and loves life in Ards and
North Down.
Admission Free: Refreshments provided. Please Book your place by
contacting T: 028 71 376 579 or email ulsterscots@derrystrabane.com
Presentation of Certificates
Wednesday 27 November 2024, 3:15pm
Guildhall, Derry
Mayor Councillor Lilian Seenoi-Barr and Charles Neville from the Ulster-
Scots Community Network will present certificates to Elected Members and
employees of Derry City and Strabane District Council who recently completed
an OCN Level 1 Module in Ulster-Scots Language, Heritage and Culture.

Hame an Awa
Scots Wurds in
Irish Toonlands
With Alan Millar
Thursday 28 November 2024,1pm
Tower Museum, Derry Lecture Event
Born and reared in the Laggan of East Donegal, Millar explores the interconnections
of locality and language running through his own work, using as his touchstone the
glossary and subscribers list of Newton-Cunningham poet George Dugall’s ‘The
Northern Cottage’, published exactly 200 years ago this year. Through the words of
the glossary and the townlands named on the subscribers list, we are transported
back to a very familiar, yet strikingly different world. The glossary, filled with Ulster-
Scots dialect still spoken today, is layered through with many words now lost to the
Laggan, but still alive in other places, creating a sense of shared Scots language,
running past into present, between Fintown and the Shetlands. The subscribers list
teems with Irish townland names, giving the address of every person who bought
Dugall’s book. The subscribers may be long dead, but the townlands remain as
intimately recognisable today as the day the book was printed. Join Alan on his
anniversary journey through these idiosyncrasies, tracing their contemporary
resonance through his own work and learn how his latest poetry project led him in the
footsteps of St. Columba to the Hebrides and to Sligo.
Alan Millar
Alan Millar comes from the Laggan area of east Donegal and is now based in
Ballymoney, Co Antrim. He is a journalist, writer and poet in Ulster-Scots and English.
In 2021 he was winner of the Hugh MacDiarmid Tassie for Scots poetry and the
inaugural Linenhall Library Ulster-Scots short story competition. In 2023 Alan was
winner of the Linenhall Library Ulster-Scots poetry competition and had a top-placed
Ulster-Scots poem in the inaugural Thomas Carnduff Shipyard Poetry Competition.
The author writes an Ulster-Scots column for the Ballymoney Chronicle called ‘Leid
Loanen’, or Language Lane. His first collection of poetry ‘Echas frae tha Big Swilly
Swally’ was published in May 2023. He was nominated for Scots Writer of the Year,
in the 2023 Scots Language Awards and is currently working on his ACNI-supported
second poetry collection, ‘Frae Erris tae Wrath’.
Booking essential: Please book your place by contacting the
Tower Museum (028) 7137 2411 or email tower@derrystrabane.com
Admission Free. Light refreshments provided from 12:30pm
The Random Writer
Story Maker Workshop
Ulster-Scots
Story Creation Workshops
With Robert Campbell and
Lisnagelvin Primary School
The Random Writer Story Maker Workshop is an innovative process that helps participants
challenge and unlock their imagination, cultivate and develop their ideas, hone and structure
their work and ultimately present it in a personally authentic manner, whether in a
story, a poem, a script, a comic, a piece of dialogue, or even a few lines of writing accompanied
by a piece of art.
Robert Campbell has been working with Lisnagelvin primary school in the lead-up to
Ulster-Scots Language Week using the Ulster Scots Agency’s ‘30 Wee Words’ as a spring
board to stimulate the children’s imaginations, and to help them realise that they know
more Ulster Scots than they think. The children’s completed work will be showcased at the
school on Monday 25 November 2024 as part of Ulster-Scots Language Week.

Tellin’ Tales
Ulster-Scots Story
Creation Workshops
with Robert Campbell and
Irish Medium Schools in Derry
The Droichead Project at Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin is working in partnership with
local writer and storyteller Robert Campbell to celebrate the Ulster Scots
language as an important and colourful tradition within our local linguistic
tapestry. Robert will be facilitating story creation workshops with 9-11 year olds
in three Irish medium primary schools in the Derry area - Gaelscoil Éadain Mhóir,
Gaelscoil na Daróige and Bunscoil Cholmcille - helping young people to create
their own tales using Ulster-Scots words and phrases, bringing the stories to life
with vibrant characters, rich descriptions and captivating plots. The participants
will be presenting their completed work within their schools as part of Ulster-
Scots Language Week.
Robert Campbell
Robert Campbell is a writer, poet and artist. He originally hails from East Antrim
but has lived in the North West for the last 16 years. Robert’s understanding of
Ulster-Scots comes from a native speaking perspective. Though suppressed
for many years he found his Ulster Scots voice in poetry. His Ulster-Scots work
includes: ‘Lock Doon Poems’; ‘Peep Frae Your Mind’ (poems); short stories
collection ‘Tales Frae the life o James Finlay Bruce’; spoken word performance ‘A
Dander Through Narnia’; videos of poems; and even an Electronic Dance Music
(EDM) track. His children’s books include: ‘Sled Down’ - a Christmas story set in
and around Culmore and Derry’s Walls; ‘Captain Timmy and the Bobbing Barrel’
– a story about pirates who lose their ship at Portrush; ‘George and the Elephant’
- the story of a child’s struggle with dyslexia; spoken word story - ‘Captain Timmy
and the Terrible Turnip: a Halloween Tale’; and he is currently working on ‘Captain
Timmy and Finn McCool’s Griddle’. Robert has also developed the Random Writer
Story Maker Workshop.
www.robertcampbell.me | Instagram | Facebook | Books
Wheesht
A short film featuring
Aileen McCahon and Anne McMaster
Available online from
Monday 25 November 2024
at www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots
Wheesht (silence in Ulster-Scots) is a two-woman 13-minute spoken-word film
written and performed by two Ulster-Scots poets. For generations, this island
has rightly celebrated its articulate creative women. Yet for rural women who
spoke or wrote in Ulster-Scots, their experience was very different. In their
villages and towns, they were often overlooked – muted – and their voices were
not so often heard. This funny, honest and moving film acknowledges those
women from earlier centuries to today, explores the creative ways they found
to express themselves and celebrates the energy, power and originality of the
female Ulster-Scots voice. Wheesht is a film with the Ulster-Scots language
at its core – how it is spoken and how its speakers have often been perceived.
Wheesht will address social issues, literary history, rural isolation, and the power
of intergenerational relationships.
Aileen McCahon: Aileen is a poet, short story writer and storyteller from Garvagh.
Her work has been published in Yarns anthology and in anthologies of contemporary
Ulster-Scots work from the Sheddas On Tha Page writers. She’s been a guest on Kintra
- talking about and sharing some of her own work. She’s also read at festivals including
the Frances Browne Literary Festival in Ballybofey. Most recently, Aileen undertook
voiceover work for Yamal Productions, playing several characters in their adaptation of
Archibald McIlroy’s The Auld Meetin’- Hoose Green for a series of podcasts.
Anne McMaster: Anne has produced two poetry collections in English - Walking Off the
Land and Moments (published by Hedgehog Poetry Press) while Póames - poetry in
Ulster Scots - was published by the Ulster Scots Agency and Ulster Scots Community
Network. Martha And the Vardo – a YA magical realism novella – was published in June
2024 while Ma Shinin Star – lullabies in Ulster-Scots – will be published in November
2024. Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area (her next collection of work in English) is due
to be published in early 2025. Anne has already created two short films for DCSDC’s Leid
Week – The Words We Carry (2022) and The Queen o’Wuntèr (2023).

aye nearhan
A short film featuring
Anne McMaster
Available online from
Monday 25 November 2024
at www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots
‘aye nearhan’ focuses on our wonderful natural environment, combining an original
Ulster-Scots narrative with extraordinary drone footage of the NI landscape and
coastline. Anne’s words will also be combined with a bespoke original soundtrack
from local composer Matthew McCracken. In a world that is gradually disconnecting
from the seasons and the natural world, we often take our stunning coastlines and
landscape for granted. In ‘aye nearhan’, Anne will use the beautifully descriptive
Ulster-Scots language to great effect – reminding our own island-based audiences
of the beauty that surrounds us - while showing audiences from further afield the
beauty of both our language and our landscape.
This 13-minute film will be made available to DCSDC as a digital upload
prior to Leid Week 2024.
Anne McMaster
Anne has produced two poetry collections in English - Walking Off the Land and
Moments (published by Hedgehog Poetry Press) while Póames - poetry in Ulster
Scots - was published by the Ulster Scots Agency and Ulster Scots Community
Network. Martha And the Vardo – a YA magical realism novella – was published in
June 2024 while Ma Shinin Star – lullabies in Ulster-Scots – will be published in
November 2024. Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area (her next collection of work
in English) is due to be published in early 2025. Anne has already created two short
films for DCSDC’s Leid Week – The Words We Carry (2022) and
The Queen o’Wuntèr (2023).
Kenspeckle Kythins
A short film
featuring Alan Millar
Available online from
Monday 25 November 2024
at www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots
In this short film, a companion piece to the Island Voices lecture Hame an awa
– Scots wurds in Irish toonlands, Millar explores the interconnections of locality
and language running through his own work, using as his touchstone the
glossary and subscribers list of Newton-Cunningham poet George Dugall’s The
Northern Cottage, published exactly 200 years ago this year. The glossary, filled
with Ulster-Scots dialect still spoken today, is layered through with many words
now lost to the Laggan, but still alive in other places, creating a sense of shared
Scots language, running past into present, between Errigal and the Shetlands.
The subscribers list teems with Irish townland names, as intimately recognisable
today as the day the book was printed. The short film features contributions from
contemporary Scots poets William Hershaw and George Watt, as well as a poem
especially written by Millar. Join Alan on his journey through his native Laggan,
connecting modern resonances with those of the past.
Alan Millar
Alan Millar comes from the Laggan area of east Donegal and is now based in
Ballymoney, Co Antrim. He is a journalist, writer and poet in Ulster-Scots and
English. In 2021 he was winner of the Hugh MacDiarmid Tassie for Scots poetry
and the inaugural Linenhall Library Ulster-Scots short story competition. In
2023 Alan was winner of the Linenhall Library Ulster-Scots poetry competition
and had a top-placed Ulster-Scots poem in the inaugural Thomas Carnduff
Shipyard Poetry Competition. The author writes an Ulster-Scots column for the
Ballymoney Chronicle called ‘Leid Loanen’, or Language Lane. His first collection
of poetry ‘Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally’ was published in May 2023. He was
nominated for Scots Writer of the Year, in the 2023 Scots Language Awards and
is currently working on his ACNI-supported second poetry collection, ‘Frae Erris
tae Wrath’.

Derry Cittie & Strabàne Destrìck
Ulstèr-Scotch
Leid Week
25-29 I Nov I 2024
Further information:
www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots
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Supported by The Ulster-Scots Agency