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Liam Logan takes us on a historical bus tour around east Co Donegal, visiting sites associated with the Plantation of 400 years ago.

The tour goes to the ruined homestead of the Galloway Stewarts on the banks of the Swilly then on聽to historic Bellaghan Abbey, where Liam hears about John Caldwell Calhoun. 聽Calhoun was said to be the man whose thinking started the American Civil War.

Ramelton was the next stop聽where Mary Hagan tells how discovering Francis Makemie in her home city of New York, inspired her to save the old Meeting House in the home town of the father of American Presbyterianism.

This Ulster Scots bus tour is part of the Sarah Leech Summer School, and the life and words of the poet-lass of Ballylennon are remembered. There鈥檚 also mention of the work of a certain James Bond, and of Rudyard Kipling too, whose writing was championed in America by a man from east Donegal.