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The Ulster Scots (Ulster-Scots: Ulstèr-Scotch; Irish: Albanaigh Uladh), also called Ulster Scots people (Ulstèr-Scotch fowk) or, in North America, Scotch-Irish (Scotch-Airisch) or Scots-Irish, are an ethnic group in Ireland who share a common history, culture, and ancestry.
Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulstèr-Scotch, Irish: Albainis Uladh), also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster, being almost exclusively spoken in parts of Northern Ireland and County Donegal.
Ulster-Scots (or ‘Ullans’ or even the ‘Braid Scotch’) is a variant of Scots, the language used by Robert Burns in many of his poems. Scots is still spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland today and is often called Lallans, the Scots word for ‘lowlands’. Scots is part of the West Germanic family of languages.
The term Ulster-Scots, although also used in colonial America, is more commonly applied in the British Isles to refer to the people who moved from Scotland to Ulster, many of whom then, some time later, moved again to America. For more information about Ulster-Scots history and culture, go to:
Ulster-Scots literature is important for what it reveals of everyday life and society of former times and the creative skills of individual writers, but its greater significance lies in its implication that spoken Ulster-Scots has had a distinctive character and continuous existence for centuries.
For distinctive Ulster-Scots vocabulary that is still current, see James Fenton's The Hamely Tongue, and for a detailed account of the grammatical rules for Ulster-Scots verbs, see Philip Robinson's Ulster-Scots: A Grammar of the Traditional Written and Spoken Language. The Ulster-Scots spellings given in this glossary are those agreed by the ...
This new edition published by the Ulster-Scots Language Society documents over 500 ‘shared’ vocabulary items which are authenticated by quotations from both sides of the Atlantic. A searchable online version of this dictionary is now also available here .
