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Interest in the Hamilton and Montgomery ‘Dawn of the Ulster-Scots’ project has been phenomenal, Ulster-Scots Agency chairman Mark Thompson confirms.
Mark, who has played a major part in the initiative, said inquiries about the marking of the 400th anniversary of the James Hamilton and Hugh Montgomery settlements in Ulster have been received from people from across the world. |
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The Ulster-Scots Agency has made three new appointments to its permanent staff in Belfast. |
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The Ulster-Scots Agency's Director of Language and Education, Jim Millar, reviews some of the work of the Bard of Ballycarry.
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Lauren Edgar and Sophie Hurst race to the line in the South Belfast Junior Highland Games, which was sponsored by The Ulster-Scots Agency.
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New website tells of 1718 migration to New World
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The Ulster-Scots Agency has launched a new website - www.1718migration.co.uk - which tells the story of the first organised migration of Ulster people to the New England colonies.
In particular, it tells the story of those colonists who left Co. Londonderry in Ireland to settle what eventually became the town of Londonderry, New Hampshire in 1723.
It has sections on genealogy, as well as links to further information on travel and on Ulster and Scots heritage. Between 1717-1720, it is known that more than 3,000 Ulster Presbyterians left the north of Ireland, with 700 of them leaving in one mass migration in the summer of 1718 alone. |
