The Gellick

The Gellick's Ulster Scots blethers, rhymes an yarns: postmodern crack for the day an the morra in the oul tongue.

[Mark Thompson @MarkThompStuff]

With Burns Nicht brave an nearhaun, here's a John Clifford of Larne poem fae 1978 fae the 'Belfast Telegraph'

[Rían Ó Díomasaigh @Ultach1014]

Ulster Scots phrase of the day: A SAA THE TIME

Meaning: I knew a time when / “back in MY day”

Example: “A saa the time whaur ye cid coff a hale weak’s meat fir nae mair nor a tosser! Bit na nou…” 💰📈

[Mark Thompson @MarkThompStuff]

A Belfast Christmas circa 1880, as performed by WG Lyttle. His shows and books were massively popular, and contain a fair amount of #UlsterScots #Scots

[Robert Campbell (The Bog Myrtle) 🦀🛢️ @thebogmyrtle]

"Farewell till ye wee swallae-oo"
#UlsterScots #HamelyTongue #Poem #poetry #Autumn
First one of these for a while!

[Anne McMaster @Rosehill_girl]

Tha coul wun a’tha bak en o’tha yeir gies taak tae tha stanes an’ cairries yairns o’th’oul fairm.

#newwurds #amwriting #ulsterscots #poet @UlsterScotsAgen @theulsterfolk @USCN1 @fairfaaye @HurchinHome

[The Gellick @the_gellick]

Tha Bilfawst hallions aye had a quare funny way o taakin. Ye cud hairdly mak oot a wurd tha craturs say. https://t.co/HNqKIdNXAn

[Ulster-Scots Community Network @USCN1]

@LeeReynoldsUKNI @ThaDougal @fairfaaye @gaynorkane @Angelinekking @UlsterScotsAgen @Rosehill_girl @uslanguagesoc @thebogmyrtle @HurchinHome @ACNIWriting @ScotsH @owresettins1 @MarkThompStuff @molach95 @Lenniesaurus @StuartPoet @FRLSU @SeawrightDaniel @carol_baraniuk @the_gellick

[BelTel Entertainment @BelTel_Ent]

A Co Antrim screenwriter, who has just been accepted as a member of BAFTA, has told how his interest in Ulster-Scots inspired him to create the first ever television drama in the dialect
https://t.co/sTFpmxoPzG

[Robert Campbell (The Bog Myrtle) 🦀🛢️ @thebogmyrtle]

Tomorrow evening! #HamelyTongue #UlsterScots #LockDoonPoyams

@Angelinekking @MarkThompStuff @HurchinHome

[Robert Campbell (The Bog Myrtle) 🦀🛢️ @thebogmyrtle]

Hadn't intended to do this until the middle of the week, (it was meant to be 18 June!) but it has already been discovered, and Amazon recommended it to me this morning.

So I thought I'd better just share this.

https://t.co/JqVyyO3Bkn via @AmazonUK

[Ulster-Scots Community Network @USCN1]

We're finally able to launch the call for submissions for our journal of Ulster-Scots writing. Full details on our Facebook page - link below. Deadline is 9th July. Made possible by funding from @UlsterScotsAgen

https://t.co/qlPQZWfk12

[The Gellick @the_gellick]

They hae tha Scotch Pairlyment oath in Ulster-Scotch inaboot. I doot I may stand for tha neist yin.

[Oor Vyce @OorVyce]

Congratulations tae @KevinStewartSNP As a newly elected MSP fa taen the @oorvyce #ScotsPledge, I’m speirin gin ye will tak yer pledge in Scots - or ony o the dialects o Scots, includin Doric. Scots translation o the oath + affirmation translations here: https://t.co/oBAJwbC4jm

[Al Millar @MillarTap]

Great to see Ballymoney's new Mexican fast food joint is embracing the (oddtimes) Hamely Tongue.

[Linda@SeaSugar Confectionery #propersweets🍬 @seasugarsweets]

Great article from David Hume in The Larne Times. 'Caleery Toun' in Islandmagee makes me laugh, sure we're all a bit caleeried here. @Angelinekking @TheFarrierPhil @berniemcgill

Scots names to the fore along the east Antrim coast https://t.co/pEPLIlHcvn