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News Archive
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Creative focus for Ballycarry’s Broadisland Gathering
Ballycarry's annual Broadisland Gathering festival will be focusing on the theme of creativity within the Ulster Scots community this year. more »
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Her Majesty's Royal Marines Confirmed for Glasgow Tattoo
Glasgow will host it’s first Tattoo in January 2017, with over 600 performers, and will showcase some of the finest marching bands, musicians, and dancers from across Scotland, Ulster and beyond, in a three hour show, building up to the Grand Finale of the Massed Pipe And Drums. more »
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The Belfast Tattoo, SSE Arena, Belfast - 1st, 2nd, 3rd September 2016
With just 5 weeks to go until Opening Night of The 2016 Belfast Tattoo, participants who had success in The Scottish Pipe Band Championships held in Dumbarton last Saturday included Ravara Pipe Band, Thiepval Memorial Pipe Band and Marlacoo Pipe Band. more »
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Ulster's V.C. Heroes of the Great War Exhibition of Paintings
The Ulster’s V.C. Heroes of the Great War Exhibition of Paintings will go on display in the Discover Ulster-Scots Centre from Monday 1st August 2016. more »
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Ulster's V.C. Heroes of the Great War Exhibition Launched
On Thursday 30th June at an event hosted by Speaker of the NI Assembly, Robin Newton MLA, the Ulster-Scots Agency officially launched an exhibition of paintings on ‘Ulster’s V.C. Heroes of the Great War’ at Parliament Buildings, Stormont. more »
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Mid and East Antrim Borough Mayor welcomes Andrew Jackson Cultural Festival
The rich cultural heritage of the Andrew Jackson Cottage at Boneybefore, Carrickfergus is to be explored in a free entry cultural festival. more »
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Belfast Somme 100
Belfast Somme 100 is a programme of commemorative events marking the centenary of the battles of the Somme, and the place of the Somme campaign within the First World War. more »
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First Minister Launches WW1 Posters for Ulster Schools
The First Minister, Arlene Foster MLA, has launched a new Ulster-Scots Agency project raising awareness of Ulster’s contribution in the Great War. Every school in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic are receiving two commemorative posters, one depicting the 19 Ulstermen who won the Victoria Cross during the war; and the other depicting the charge of the 36th (Ulster) Division on 1st July 1916. more »
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Next Edition of The Ulster-Scot Published 2 July
The next edition of The Ulster-Scot will be available on Saturday 2 July 2016. more »
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After Bannockburn...The Seizing of Carrickfergus Castle by the Scots
To commemorate the seizing of Carrickfergus Castle by Edward Bruce in 1316, the Ulster-Scots Agency and Mid and East Antrim Borough Council in partnership with the Department for Communities hosted the Bruce Festival 2016 on June 4 and 5, featuring The Knights of Royal England, Europe’s premier jousting team. more »