Episode 37
Liam Logan has some crack with Willie Cromie about working on the thresher as a boy of four, and how the school in Ballywalter tried to stop the weans speaking the Scots tongue.
On Kist o Wurds this week Liam Logan has some crack with Willie Cromie about working on the thresher as a boy of four, and how the school in Ballywalter tried to stop the weans speaking their ain Scots tongue. Liz Hoy has a rhyme from Cullybacky and Liam drops by the rehearsals for the 2016 Walled City Tattoo. We also hear about William Tennent, Belfast's richest man in his day who was also a radical and was jailed after the '98 rebellion. Liam hears from Dr John Bew about the TV programme he has made about an important but largely forgotten man.
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Liam Logan has some crack with Willie Cromie, when Willie tells Liam about working on the thresher as a boy of four, and how the聽school in Ballywalter tried to stop the weans speaking their ain Scots tongue.
Liz Hoy has a rhyme from Cullybackey that was written 90 years ago,聽 which still rings true today, and Liam drops by the rehearsals for the 2016 Walled City Tattoo, to meet the folk behind this Ulster Scots spectacle.
William Tennent was a son of the manse, and Belfast鈥檚 richest man in his day, but he was also a radical who was jailed after the 鈥�98 rebellion.
Liam hears from Dr John Bew about the TV programme he has made about an important but largely forgotten man.
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Sun 15 May 2016 18:03麻豆社 Radio Ulster & 麻豆社 Radio Foyle- Wed 18 May 2016 19:30麻豆社 Radio Foyle & 麻豆社 Radio Ulster
