Al Millar

Journalist, award winning Ulster-Scot poet & writer. Debut poetry collection Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally. ACNI supported. UU Doctoral Candidate.

[YELLOW HOUSE PUBLISHING LTD @YHPUBLISHING]

📣 Successful submissions announced
Yellow House Publishing Ltd is delighted to announce the authors selected to feature in New Isles Press Issue 5.
Congratulations to all writers whose work has been selected. https://t.co/Wsp5HM7LG2

[Al Millar @MillarTap]

@carol_baraniuk @thelinenhall Thanks Carol nice speaking to you yesterday - yes Orr - ‘the airm o flesh boost settle’ as you noticed.

[Al Millar @MillarTap]

Delighted tae hae kerried the gree in prose, weel daun the ither winners. Thanks to @thelinenhall and judges.

[The Linen Hall @thelinenhall]

Many thanks to the judges and everyone who attended today’s Ulster-Scots Writing Competition Award Ceremony in partnership with the @UlsterScotsAgen.

The quality of the writing was excellent as usual, and we had some great readings. It was a wonderful celebration of the language, and a special publication is now available including the winning stories and poetry from the competition. This should be available from the gift shop in The Linen Hall by the end of the week.

#LinenHall #OpeningMinds #Belfast

[Fair Faa Ye @fairfaaye]

Join writer Alan Millar @MillarTap for a lunchtime lecture featuring the writer's new #UlsterScots poetry exploring the shared Columban heritage of these islands

🗓️Friday 28 November 2025, 1pm
📍Glenelly Suite, Council Office, Strabane
✉️To book: [email protected]

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If Headstones Could Speak - a short film narrated by Seamus Breslin of Friends of Derry City Cemetery @FODCC1853 exploring the lives and stories of past generations of #UlsterScots in the city. Available to view online at https://t.co/8cNZJJxcEu from Monday 24 November 2025

[Fair Faa Ye @fairfaaye]

Dreich (adj.): Gloomy, bleak e.g. weather. Also dreary e.g. ‘A lang dreech road’ (Fenton) or long, wearisome, tedious. Recorded in Scots and Northern English. Believed to be from Middle English and related to the Old Norse drjūgr meaning lasting #Scots #UlsterScots #TaakThaLeid

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Tha Wee Schuil - a short film in #UlsterScots featuring playwright, poet and writer Anne McMaster @Rosehill_girl to mark #LeidWeek 2025. Available to watch online at https://t.co/8cNZJJxcEu from Monday 24 November 2025

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Join writer Robert Campbell @thebogmyrtle for 'Brocht Ower' - an illustrated talk which explores the past, present and future of the #UlsterScots language.

🗓️Tuesday 25 November 2025, 1pm
📍Whittaker Suite, Guildhall, Derry~Londonderry
✉️To book: [email protected]

[Fair Faa Ye @fairfaaye]

Join award-winning film maker Tristan Crowe this #LeidWeek for an evening screening of #UlsterScots short films including The Witch of Glentow

🗓️Wednesday 26 November 2025, 6pm
📍Green Room, Guildhall, Derry~Londonderry
✉️ To book: [email protected]

[Fair Faa Ye @fairfaaye]

Join Dr Frank Ferguson from @UlsterUni for a #LeidWeek lunchtime lecture exploring the #UlsterScots influences on the life and work of CS Lewis

🗓️Thursday 27 November 2025, 1pm
📍Whittaker Suite, Guildhall, Derry~Londonderry
✉️To book: [email protected]

[Fair Faa Ye @fairfaaye]

Footsteps and Verses: Step into the world of Ulster-Scots literature with David Douglas from @DerrieDanders for the #UlsterScots Poets Trail walking tour

🗓️Thursday 27 Nov 10:30am or Friday 28 Nov 10am
📍Leaves from New Gate, Derry~Londonderry
✉️To book: https://t.co/2hCnVdUxfN

[Fair Faa Ye @fairfaaye]

Let's Dance! Blether & Bounce is an interactive #UlsterScots dance and language programme for #LeidWeek created by the award-winning Sollus Highland Dancers for schools in the @dcsdcouncil area. To book or request further information contact: [email protected]

[Al Millar @MillarTap]

Hear about my @ACNIWriting @ArtsCouncilNI assisted poetic adventures in Scotland in 2024 - with new poems in Ulster-Scots with English translations, inspired by St Columba and the lost monastic isle of Hinba

[Fair Faa Ye @fairfaaye]

Join writer Alan Millar @MillarTap for a lunchtime lecture featuring the writer's new #UlsterScots poetry exploring the shared Columban heritage of these islands

🗓️Friday 28 November 2025, 1pm
📍Glenelly Suite, Council Office, Strabane
✉️To book: [email protected]

[Golden Hare Books @GoldenHareBooks]

Join us in the bookshop on Wednesday the 15th of October for a glorious evening celebrating poetry with poet Peter Mackay and friends. Sign up here:
https://t.co/uIaFGYAMOC

[Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @RFergussonPoet]

Thanks to all who read at and attended yesterday's online launch - what a fantastic event!

Our final launch (for now!) is in Edinburgh on 15 October @GoldenHareBooks with @PadraigMacaoidh and a lovely range of poets whose work features in the collection!
Get your tickets ⤵️

[Al Millar @MillarTap]

Lookin farrit tae it

[Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @RFergussonPoet]

Join us for the Glasgow and online launches of 'O’er a’ my labours sey your skill’: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.
More information and to book free tickets, see below:
https://t.co/9almcIaTIh

[BallycastleChronicle @bcastle_chron]

This week's Chronicle is now in the shops. Don't miss your copy! And keep up to date daily on our website at https://t.co/zeyuOauVlh, you can also call us on 028 7034 3344 or send a DM!

[Al Millar @MillarTap]

Weel daun aa. Mae poem in this byornar publication Thrice Famous Fergusson, efter Thomson o Antrim, is set upon the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, the maker’s hame toon, a visitor’s monologue. Projects lik this are ayont guid fur legacy forbye heezin virr amang makars noo.

[Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @RFergussonPoet]

🪶We're thrilled to announce 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson. Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives! @PressTaproot

[Al Millar @MillarTap]

If you are in Edinburgh for the festival on Saturday week then definitely try and get to this father and son show, from awarding winning Scots songwriters William and David Hershaw. Wullie is one of the foremaist makars in the Scots leid onywhar and a passionate advocate.

[Hurchin Home @HurchinHome]

I'm very excited to announce this PhD opportunity on the archive of Robert Huddleston. A funded scholarship with National Museums NI for a four year project: https://t.co/FjRTeVrE4v