Northern Ireland's first Irish language and Ulster-Scots commissioners are to be confirmed within weeks. BBC News NI understands the Irish language commissioner role has been offered to Pól Deeds, the ...

Former DUP adviser Lee Reynolds is reported to have been offered the job of Northern Ireland’s first ever Ulster-Scots commissioner. It follows reports from the BBC that Pól Deeds, the deputy director ...

Introduction: Identity in an Atlantic world -- The transformation of Ulster society in the wake of the Glorious Revolution -- "Satan's sieve": crisis and community in Ulster -- "On the wing for ...

I. Scot in 1600. Poverty and insecurity -- Domestic life of the Lowland Scot -- Scottish social institutions in 1600 -- Religion in Scotland -- Mind and character of the Lowlander -- II. Scots in ...

“The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years from Colonial ...

For Janelle Asselin, it started with 10 pages of family records, tales of ancestors that spanned Ireland, Canada and the United States. After a decade of research, she eventually found that John ...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the invisible Irish, the Scotch-Irish. These are Scots who moved to Ireland four centuries ago, their offspring later immigrating to this country during the Colonial ...

Pól Deeds (left) is set to become the Irish language commissioner and Lee Reynolds (right) will become the Ulster-Scots commissioner. Northern Ireland's first Irish language and Ulster-Scots ...

BBC News NI understands the Irish language commissioner role has been offered to Pól Deeds, the deputy chief executive of the cross-border body Foras na Gaeilge. A Stormont source confirmed he was ...