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June 2004
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Acting chairman Jim Devenney has vowed to "go anywhere and meet any group" following last month's shock resignation of former Ulster-Scots Agency chairman Lord Laird. |
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The Institute of Ulster Scots Studies has begun a research programme designed to provide an assessment of the current provision, or lack of provision, of Ulster Scots educational programmes or initiatives. |
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A DUP delegation consisting of Nigel Dodds MP MLA and Nelson McCausland MLA met Angela Smith MP, the Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure to put the case for more resources for Ulster-Scots language and culture. |
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Awards for Markethill Fiddlers |
Top of the class - Nine year-old Becky McCall and Graham Hamilton are the youngest of the 53 members of 'Fiddlesteeks' fiddle orchestra tutored by Keith Lyttle (pictured centre) who received Scottish Traditional music certificiates for the fiddle from the London College of Music last Thursday night (May 27). The Markethill group is believed to be the largest group of its kind to receive these certificates. |
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Popular Ulster-Scots radio programme returns
The Ulster-Scot and News Letter columnist Conal Gillespie will be taking to the airwaves again tomorrow (Sunday May 30) when BBC Radio Ulster's popular 'Kist o Wurds' programme returns. Conal presents the lively magazine programme produced by Chris Spurr and the good news is that it will be running for the next eight weeks.
Tomorrow's programme will feature interviews on the Scots-Irish musical 'On Eagle's Wing' which premiered at the Odyssey, Belfast on Friday and Saturday nights.
The programme starts at 2 pm and kicks off one hour of broadcasting, which is bound to appeal to Ulster-Scots. It is followed by the highland piping progamme, 'Kist o Wurds' is also repeated every Thursday night on BBC Radio Ulster from 7.30pm featuring the best of the local pipe-bands. |
