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Derry Cittie & Strabàne Destrìck<br />

Ulstèr-Scotch<br />

Leid Week<br />

25-29 I Nov I 2024<br />

Further information:<br />

www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots<br />

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Derry Cittie & Strabàne Destrìck<br />

Ulstèr-Scotch<br />

Leid Week<br />

25-29 I Nov I 2024<br />

Fair faa ye!<br />

Join iz fer Ulster – Scots Leid Week 2024.<br />

Ulster – Scots baes aa aroun’ iz, an’ Ulster-Scots Leid Week gies iz an unco<br />

chanst tae lairn mair aboot the leid an’ tae mairk an’ celebrate the inpit at<br />

Ulster-Scots maks tae oor city an’ airt.<br />

The yeir Derry City an’ Strabane Destrick Cooncil ir sarious gled tae offair a<br />

week-lang programme o’ daeins, taakin in taaks an’ ganches, creative screevin<br />

waarkshaps, leid lairnin events an’ shoart digital films. Oor programme leuks<br />

intae a wheen o’ differ themes at ir baith locail an’ worl’ wide an’ features a<br />

wheen o’ differ voices amang thaim Ulster-Scots screeveners, poets, thinkers<br />

an’ perfoarmers fae neir an’ far.<br />

Sae gif ye onie hae a Wheen o’ Wurds, uise The Hamely Tongue ivry day ir gif<br />

ye’re onie wantin’ tae fin oot aboot the Ulster-Scots leid, the yeir’s programme<br />

haes sim thing fer ivryboadie.<br />

Derry City an’ Strabane Destrick Cooncil’s programme baes kin’ly hefted bae<br />

the Boord o’ Ulster-Scotch.<br />

Fer mair wittens gae tae www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots fer the latest<br />

newins.<br />

Follae iz oan Twitter@Fairfaaye#Ulsterscots Language Week #Ulsterscotch<br />

Leid Week #Leidweek<br />

Aa the events an’ daeins in the programme ir free bit beukin baes needfu’ fer<br />

in-person daeins.<br />

Tae beuk yer place aa onie o’ the in-person daeins get oantae ulsterscots@<br />

derrystrabane.com ir Teyyphone iz oan (028) 71376579.<br />

Tak’ tent aa the programme micht bae subject tae altheration.<br />

Derry Cittie & Strabàne Destrìck<br />

Ulstèr-Scotch<br />

Leid Week<br />

25-29 I Nov I 2024<br />

Fair faa ye!<br />

Join us for Ulster-Scots Language Week 2024.<br />

Ulster-Scots is all around us, and Ulster-Scots Language Week provides us<br />

with a unique opportunity to learn more about the language and to celebrate<br />

the contribution which Ulster-Scots makes to life throughout the city and<br />

district.<br />

This year, Derry City and Strabane District Council is delighted to offer a<br />

week-long programme of events including talks, creative writing workshops,<br />

language learning events and short digital films. Our programme explores a<br />

range of themes, both local and global, and features a diverse range of voices,<br />

including Ulster-Scots writers, poets, thinkers and performers, from home and<br />

abroad.<br />

So, whether you just have a wheen o words, speak tha hamely tongue daily, or<br />

are just curious about the Ulster-Scots language, this year’s programme has<br />

something for everyone.<br />

Derry City and Strabane District Council’s programme is kindly supported by<br />

The Ulster-Scots Agency.<br />

Visit www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots for the latest updates.<br />

Follow us on Twitter @fairfaaye #UlsterScotsLanguageWeek<br />

#UlsterScotchLeidWeek #LeidWeek<br />

All events in the programme are free but booking is essential for in-person<br />

events.<br />

To book your place at any of the in-person events please contact ulsterscots@<br />

derrystrabane.com or call us on T: (028) 71376 579.<br />

Please note that this programme may be subject to change.<br />

Supported by The Ulster-Scots Agency


Mountain Talk:<br />

Searching for<br />

Appalachian roots<br />

in Ulster Scots<br />

With Meagan Jennett<br />

Monday 25 November 2024, 1:00pm<br />

Tower Museum<br />

Lecture Event<br />

The connection between Northern Ireland and Appalachia is often cluttered<br />

with the low-hanging cultural kitsch propagated by that folkloric figure: the<br />

over-eager and boorish American ‘searching for their roots.’ But what if there<br />

was something to that figure? What do immigrants carry with them when they<br />

leave? And what do they forget, to keep moving forward? What might have been<br />

obscured by prejudice, or simple circumstance?<br />

The linguistic community remains torn on the presence of Ulster Scots in<br />

southern Appalachian speech. But this author, not herself a linguist, but a native<br />

of the Virginia Blue Ridge, argues that, perhaps, lived experience and local<br />

knowledge can offer unique insight into areas otherwise shrouded by history.<br />

Where might Ulster Scots reside in the Virginian mouth? In texts? Where does<br />

it pop up, even centuries after the first waves of Ulster immigrants swept into<br />

Appalachia? This talk is a story: of a people and a language, and a rediscovery.<br />

Like all great stories, it ends with a journey hame.<br />

Meagan Jennet<br />

Meagan Jennett is a poet, novelist, and current DFA candidate at the University<br />

of Glasgow, where she is researching the multilayered connections between<br />

Scotland and her native Blue Ridge, Virginia. She is the author of You Know Her.<br />

Admission Free: Refreshments provided. Please Book your place by<br />

contacting T: 028 71 376 579 or email ulsterscots@derrystrabane.com<br />

Hae a Bite an a Blether<br />

An introduction to the<br />

Ulster-Scots language<br />

With Dr Dayna Jost<br />

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 12:30pm,<br />

Green Room, Guildhall<br />

Language Learning Workshop<br />

In this session, participants will have a chance to engage with the<br />

Ulster-Scots language at a basic level and discuss its origins and cultural<br />

significance. Listening, reading and speaking activities in the session<br />

are designed to help participants recall and notice words and grammar<br />

structures that are in everyday use in the target language, while also providing<br />

opportunities to expand abilities. All are welcome to the session, whether they<br />

have ‘wheen o wurds’ or none at all.<br />

Dr Dayna Jost<br />

Dr Dayna Jost is a Development Officer with the Ulster-Scots Community<br />

Network. She has been working with various communities in Northern Ireland<br />

for the last five years through her research work in identity and community<br />

relations in the education sector. With a doctorate in Education and ten<br />

years’ experience as a language teacher, she is particularly passionate about<br />

providing meaningful educational opportunities for people of all ages and all<br />

backgrounds to explore the histories of the Ulster-Scots language and culture<br />

and their many contributions to the rest of the world. Originally from Baltimore,<br />

Maryland USA, she has lived in Bangor for 12 years and loves life in Ards and<br />

North Down.<br />

Admission Free: Refreshments provided. Please Book your place by<br />

contacting T: 028 71 376 579 or email ulsterscots@derrystrabane.com<br />

Presentation of Certificates<br />

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 3:15pm<br />

Guildhall, Derry<br />

Staff<br />

Event<br />

Mayor Councillor Lilian Seenoi-Barr and Charles Neville from the Ulster-<br />

Scots Community Network will present certificates to Elected Members and<br />

employees of Derry City and Strabane District Council who recently completed<br />

an OCN Level 1 Module in Ulster-Scots Language, Heritage and Culture.


Hame an Awa<br />

Scots Wurds in<br />

Irish Toonlands<br />

With Alan Millar<br />

Thursday 28 November 2024,1pm<br />

Tower Museum, Derry Lecture Event<br />

Born and reared in the Laggan of East Donegal, Millar explores the interconnections<br />

of locality and language running through his own work, using as his touchstone the<br />

glossary and subscribers list of Newton-Cunningham poet George Dugall’s ‘The<br />

Northern Cottage’, published exactly 200 years ago this year. Through the words of<br />

the glossary and the townlands named on the subscribers list, we are transported<br />

back to a very familiar, yet strikingly different world. The glossary, filled with Ulster-<br />

Scots dialect still spoken today, is layered through with many words now lost to the<br />

Laggan, but still alive in other places, creating a sense of shared Scots language,<br />

running past into present, between Fintown and the Shetlands. The subscribers list<br />

teems with Irish townland names, giving the address of every person who bought<br />

Dugall’s book. The subscribers may be long dead, but the townlands remain as<br />

intimately recognisable today as the day the book was printed. Join Alan on his<br />

anniversary journey through these idiosyncrasies, tracing their contemporary<br />

resonance through his own work and learn how his latest poetry project led him in the<br />

footsteps of St. Columba to the Hebrides and to Sligo.<br />

Alan Millar<br />

Alan Millar comes from the Laggan area of east Donegal and is now based in<br />

Ballymoney, Co Antrim. He is a journalist, writer and poet in Ulster-Scots and English.<br />

In 2021 he was winner of the Hugh MacDiarmid Tassie for Scots poetry and the<br />

inaugural Linenhall Library Ulster-Scots short story competition. In 2023 Alan was<br />

winner of the Linenhall Library Ulster-Scots poetry competition and had a top-placed<br />

Ulster-Scots poem in the inaugural Thomas Carnduff Shipyard Poetry Competition.<br />

The author writes an Ulster-Scots column for the Ballymoney Chronicle called ‘Leid<br />

Loanen’, or Language Lane. His first collection of poetry ‘Echas frae tha Big Swilly<br />

Swally’ was published in May 2023. He was nominated for Scots Writer of the Year,<br />

in the 2023 Scots Language Awards and is currently working on his ACNI-supported<br />

second poetry collection, ‘Frae Erris tae Wrath’.<br />

Booking essential: Please book your place by contacting the<br />

Tower Museum (028) 7137 2411 or email tower@derrystrabane.com<br />

Admission Free. Light refreshments provided from 12:30pm<br />

The Random Writer<br />

Story Maker Workshop<br />

Ulster-Scots<br />

Story Creation Workshops<br />

With Robert Campbell and<br />

Lisnagelvin Primary School<br />

The Random Writer Story Maker Workshop is an innovative process that helps participants<br />

challenge and unlock their imagination, cultivate and develop their ideas, hone and structure<br />

their work and ultimately present it in a personally authentic manner, whether in a<br />

story, a poem, a script, a comic, a piece of dialogue, or even a few lines of writing accompanied<br />

by a piece of art.<br />

Robert Campbell has been working with Lisnagelvin primary school in the lead-up to<br />

Ulster-Scots Language Week using the Ulster Scots Agency’s ‘30 Wee Words’ as a spring<br />

board to stimulate the children’s imaginations, and to help them realise that they know<br />

more Ulster Scots than they think. The children’s completed work will be showcased at the<br />

school on Monday 25 November 2024 as part of Ulster-Scots Language Week.


Tellin’ Tales<br />

Ulster-Scots Story<br />

Creation Workshops<br />

with Robert Campbell and<br />

Irish Medium Schools in Derry<br />

The Droichead Project at Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin is working in partnership with<br />

local writer and storyteller Robert Campbell to celebrate the Ulster Scots<br />

language as an important and colourful tradition within our local linguistic<br />

tapestry. Robert will be facilitating story creation workshops with 9-11 year olds<br />

in three Irish medium primary schools in the Derry area - Gaelscoil Éadain Mhóir,<br />

Gaelscoil na Daróige and Bunscoil Cholmcille - helping young people to create<br />

their own tales using Ulster-Scots words and phrases, bringing the stories to life<br />

with vibrant characters, rich descriptions and captivating plots. The participants<br />

will be presenting their completed work within their schools as part of Ulster-<br />

Scots Language Week.<br />

Robert Campbell<br />

Robert Campbell is a writer, poet and artist. He originally hails from East Antrim<br />

but has lived in the North West for the last 16 years. Robert’s understanding of<br />

Ulster-Scots comes from a native speaking perspective. Though suppressed<br />

for many years he found his Ulster Scots voice in poetry. His Ulster-Scots work<br />

includes: ‘Lock Doon Poems’; ‘Peep Frae Your Mind’ (poems); short stories<br />

collection ‘Tales Frae the life o James Finlay Bruce’; spoken word performance ‘A<br />

Dander Through Narnia’; videos of poems; and even an Electronic Dance Music<br />

(EDM) track. His children’s books include: ‘Sled Down’ - a Christmas story set in<br />

and around Culmore and Derry’s Walls; ‘Captain Timmy and the Bobbing Barrel’<br />

– a story about pirates who lose their ship at Portrush; ‘George and the Elephant’<br />

- the story of a child’s struggle with dyslexia; spoken word story - ‘Captain Timmy<br />

and the Terrible Turnip: a Halloween Tale’; and he is currently working on ‘Captain<br />

Timmy and Finn McCool’s Griddle’. Robert has also developed the Random Writer<br />

Story Maker Workshop.<br />

www.robertcampbell.me | Instagram | Facebook | Books<br />

Wheesht<br />

A short film featuring<br />

Aileen McCahon and Anne McMaster<br />

Available online from<br />

Monday 25 November 2024<br />

at www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots<br />

Wheesht (silence in Ulster-Scots) is a two-woman 13-minute spoken-word film<br />

written and performed by two Ulster-Scots poets. For generations, this island<br />

has rightly celebrated its articulate creative women. Yet for rural women who<br />

spoke or wrote in Ulster-Scots, their experience was very different. In their<br />

villages and towns, they were often overlooked – muted – and their voices were<br />

not so often heard. This funny, honest and moving film acknowledges those<br />

women from earlier centuries to today, explores the creative ways they found<br />

to express themselves and celebrates the energy, power and originality of the<br />

female Ulster-Scots voice. Wheesht is a film with the Ulster-Scots language<br />

at its core – how it is spoken and how its speakers have often been perceived.<br />

Wheesht will address social issues, literary history, rural isolation, and the power<br />

of intergenerational relationships.<br />

Aileen McCahon: Aileen is a poet, short story writer and storyteller from Garvagh.<br />

Her work has been published in Yarns anthology and in anthologies of contemporary<br />

Ulster-Scots work from the Sheddas On Tha Page writers. She’s been a guest on Kintra<br />

- talking about and sharing some of her own work. She’s also read at festivals including<br />

the Frances Browne Literary Festival in Ballybofey. Most recently, Aileen undertook<br />

voiceover work for Yamal Productions, playing several characters in their adaptation of<br />

Archibald McIlroy’s The Auld Meetin’- Hoose Green for a series of podcasts.<br />

Anne McMaster: Anne has produced two poetry collections in English - Walking Off the<br />

Land and Moments (published by Hedgehog Poetry Press) while Póames - poetry in<br />

Ulster Scots - was published by the Ulster Scots Agency and Ulster Scots Community<br />

Network. Martha And the Vardo – a YA magical realism novella – was published in June<br />

2024 while Ma Shinin Star – lullabies in Ulster-Scots – will be published in November<br />

2024. Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area (her next collection of work in English) is due<br />

to be published in early 2025. Anne has already created two short films for <strong>DCSDC</strong>’s Leid<br />

Week – The Words We Carry (2022) and The Queen o’Wuntèr (2023).


aye nearhan<br />

A short film featuring<br />

Anne McMaster<br />

Available online from<br />

Monday 25 November 2024<br />

at www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots<br />

‘aye nearhan’ focuses on our wonderful natural environment, combining an original<br />

Ulster-Scots narrative with extraordinary drone footage of the NI landscape and<br />

coastline. Anne’s words will also be combined with a bespoke original soundtrack<br />

from local composer Matthew McCracken. In a world that is gradually disconnecting<br />

from the seasons and the natural world, we often take our stunning coastlines and<br />

landscape for granted. In ‘aye nearhan’, Anne will use the beautifully descriptive<br />

Ulster-Scots language to great effect – reminding our own island-based audiences<br />

of the beauty that surrounds us - while showing audiences from further afield the<br />

beauty of both our language and our landscape.<br />

This 13-minute film will be made available to <strong>DCSDC</strong> as a digital upload<br />

prior to Leid Week 2024.<br />

Anne McMaster<br />

Anne has produced two poetry collections in English - Walking Off the Land and<br />

Moments (published by Hedgehog Poetry Press) while Póames - poetry in Ulster<br />

Scots - was published by the Ulster Scots Agency and Ulster Scots Community<br />

Network. Martha And the Vardo – a YA magical realism novella – was published in<br />

June 2024 while Ma Shinin Star – lullabies in Ulster-Scots – will be published in<br />

November 2024. Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area (her next collection of work<br />

in English) is due to be published in early 2025. Anne has already created two short<br />

films for <strong>DCSDC</strong>’s Leid Week – The Words We Carry (2022) and<br />

The Queen o’Wuntèr (2023).<br />

Kenspeckle Kythins<br />

A short film<br />

featuring Alan Millar<br />

Available online from<br />

Monday 25 November 2024<br />

at www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots<br />

In this short film, a companion piece to the Island Voices lecture Hame an awa<br />

– Scots wurds in Irish toonlands, Millar explores the interconnections of locality<br />

and language running through his own work, using as his touchstone the<br />

glossary and subscribers list of Newton-Cunningham poet George Dugall’s The<br />

Northern Cottage, published exactly 200 years ago this year. The glossary, filled<br />

with Ulster-Scots dialect still spoken today, is layered through with many words<br />

now lost to the Laggan, but still alive in other places, creating a sense of shared<br />

Scots language, running past into present, between Errigal and the Shetlands.<br />

The subscribers list teems with Irish townland names, as intimately recognisable<br />

today as the day the book was printed. The short film features contributions from<br />

contemporary Scots poets William Hershaw and George Watt, as well as a poem<br />

especially written by Millar. Join Alan on his journey through his native Laggan,<br />

connecting modern resonances with those of the past.<br />

Alan Millar<br />

Alan Millar comes from the Laggan area of east Donegal and is now based in<br />

Ballymoney, Co Antrim. He is a journalist, writer and poet in Ulster-Scots and<br />

English. In 2021 he was winner of the Hugh MacDiarmid Tassie for Scots poetry<br />

and the inaugural Linenhall Library Ulster-Scots short story competition. In<br />

2023 Alan was winner of the Linenhall Library Ulster-Scots poetry competition<br />

and had a top-placed Ulster-Scots poem in the inaugural Thomas Carnduff<br />

Shipyard Poetry Competition. The author writes an Ulster-Scots column for the<br />

Ballymoney Chronicle called ‘Leid Loanen’, or Language Lane. His first collection<br />

of poetry ‘Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally’ was published in May 2023. He was<br />

nominated for Scots Writer of the Year, in the 2023 Scots Language Awards and<br />

is currently working on his ACNI-supported second poetry collection, ‘Frae Erris<br />

tae Wrath’.


Derry Cittie & Strabàne Destrìck<br />

Ulstèr-Scotch<br />

Leid Week<br />

25-29 I Nov I 2024<br />

Further information:<br />

www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots<br />

This information is available upon request in a number<br />

of formats including large print, Braille, PDF, audio<br />

formats (CD, MP3, DAISY) and minority languages.<br />

For further information on alternative<br />

formats please contact<br />

Tel: 028 7125 3253<br />

Email: equality@derrystrabane.com<br />

Further information on Ulster-Scots<br />

is available at<br />

www.derrystrabane.com/ulsterscots<br />

Supported by The Ulster-Scots Agency

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