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It’s hard to imagine this funny, eloquent champion of Ulster-Scots being ill-tempered, but she’s adamant this is the case, and no other word in English comes close to describing how she feels.

Scottish poet and social media influencer Len Pennie grew up speaking both Scots and English. Now with more than a million ...

Growing up in Fraserburgh, the Scots language only existed outside the classroom for Shane Strachan. Not any more. The author and National Library of Scotland’s Scots Scriever explores how the ...

Poet Liz Niven reads an excerpt from her poem ‘Let’s Hear Whit the Dragon’s Goat Tae Say’ to students at a Scots Scuil writing workshop. She encourages them to draft their own poems and discusses how ...

Imagine a world in which weather was only dull or dismal but never dreich, or in which you chatted or nattered to friends but never blethered. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, ...

Take a look at an Irish passport. You’ll find lines from the poet, James Orr: "The hedge-hauntin' blackbird, on ae fit whyles restin', Wad fain heat the tither in storm-rufflet wing" Orr was an Ulster ...

Poet Liz Niven reads an excerpt from her poem ‘Let’s Hear Whit the Dragon’s Goat Tae Say’ to students at a Scots Scuil writing workshop. She encourages them to draft their own poems and discusses how ...

He writes in the mither leid, the mother tongue. But nothing his own mum could ever understand. Paul Malgrati has just had his first slim volume of poems published in Scots. This little book is firmly ...