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Liam Logan hears about Robert Adrain, born near Carrickfergus, who became a famous mathematician in America in the early 1800s. Robert has been doubly honoured recently, by a figure in the new Ulster-Scots Innovators Gallery in Belfast’s Thompson Dock, and by a blue plaque in Carrick.

Another Robert has just been celebrated at the Linen Hall Library. Two books of Burns’ poetry have had special reprints. There’s a new history collection published about the Ulster Plantation, and Liam discovers more history in a booklet on the Ulster Covenant and Scotland, where the document was signed in Edinburgh’s Greyfriars Kirkyard, in spite of not having official permission to be there.

Over in France, Ulster Scots language, music and culture are amongst the topics in a new book edited by Sorbonne professor Wesley Hutcheson, from Ballymena. Liam has a yarn with Wesley and with two of the authors who have written chapters. One of these is musician Willie Drennan, who’s met a fan at the book launch, someone who is a very well-known man of music himself.

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