Unfended: Thran survival isn’t enough! From finding our feet to finding our future.

"Ulster Scots is a linguistic paradox. It is undefended, having been abandoned by the halls of power for prestige; it is undefeated, surviving in the mouths of the folk and the rhythms of the Ards; and until now, it has been undefined, lacking the very vocabulary—like diglossia or translanguaging—needed to explain its own existence."

When Perception Isn’t Reality

When I was young — in all honesty I could have said — Irish doesn’t exist.  But how?  I knew no one who spoke Irish.  I knew no one learning Irish.  I knew no one with any interest in Irish. I knew no one with an opinion on Irish - either good or bad.  And though that was my lived experience — it wasn’t correct — because Gaeilge did exist — it just didn’t exist in my context.