Tag Archives: Ulster-Scots

Most Useless Building In Belfast

Posted on June 25, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

The most useless building in Belfast…and I include the Ulster-Scots Agency “The Big Hoos for Dafties”

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Ulster-Scots: You Couldnt Make It Up

Posted on June 25, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Ulster Scots….You cant make it up. Well actually I think they DID make it up. Some photographs from the Ulster-Scots Agency. Remember this is a LANGUAGE. It beggars belief how much money has been squandered on this nonsense.

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Laird …Story? What Story?

Posted on June 3, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

So the two minute BBC Norn Iron TV News bulletin at 7.58am did not mention Laird Laird.  It is item #3 on the local BBC News teletext service. Yet at 8am the story (with that of fellow peers Cunningham and … Continue reading →

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BBC Ulster Scots (sic) Word Of The Day

Posted on June 2, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I was inspired by a thread on Slugger O’Toole to look up the Ulster-Scots (please dont snigger) word for “scoundrel”. I did not have far to look because it is actually the Word of the Day on the BBC Ulster … Continue reading →

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I Pity The (April) Fool

Posted on April 1, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

I don’t actually remember the classic BBC Panorama “April Fool” prank where Richard Dimbleby reported on the Italian spaghetti harvest. I have of course see footage of it. I do recallBBC Nationwides Luke reply reporting on the Oirish builders who … Continue reading →

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Alternative USA And Ireland

Posted on November 28, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

An excellent thread on Slugger-O’Toole about American-British-Irish Diplomacy. Certainly cerebral, it is also a bit elitist…attending conferences with the great and the good like Peter Jay and Sean Donlon is a timely reminder that there are some Sluggerites who simply … Continue reading →

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I Should Not Mock Slugger O’Toole

Posted on November 6, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

My Auntie Sheila was right. If you mock something ….it happens to you. “Mocking is catching”. So I have kinda been skeptical about Stratagem O’Toole’s Digital Lunch. You’d never get me doing that. Cept that around 2am, I was on … Continue reading →

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Embracing My Inner Ulster-Scot

Posted on September 26, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

A poem ………almost by Robert Burns. Ulster Scots wha’ hae ideas long dead. Ulster Scots wha’ hae McCausland led. Welcome tae yer Poll defed Or tae victorie.   Eich Bin Ein Ulster-Scot!!

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Ooops They Did It Again

Posted on September 25, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Over on his own Blog the peerless Mr BangorDub draws attention to the Orange Orders demand that “Ulster Scots” have a vote in any Referendum on Scottish Independence. http://bangordub.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/lets-all-vote-together/ Aside from the nightmare of actually working out who is real … Continue reading →

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Robert Burns …..Jacobite to Jacobin

Posted on January 26, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

It is somewhat ironic that in their search to find a culture……Unionists discovered the Ulster-Scots Culture and decided to honour Robert “Rabbie” Burns……..Burns Night being 25th January……..it seems almost churlish to point out that Robert Burns was born in 1759……..just … Continue reading →

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