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Ullans Ireland Project

The Ullans Ireland Project is an initiative to introduce and promote Scottish culture and language to the Irish natives of our island.

If we are to share the island as a united nation sometime in the future as the Irish, and some Scots desire, equality of cultures and languages should be paramount.

While retaining the special status of Irish, Ullans too should be given official language status, as the Scots are / will be a legitimate minority in our island when united.

This will help bond our peoples, and built trust between our traditions.

To this end, our website has been created.

 

· Origions of the Scots of Ulster
· Ulster and 1798
· United Irishmen and the Act of Union
· The Scots Today
· Germanic Languages Tree
· Why a Language of Ireland?
· Dictionary and Glossaries
Ulster Scots, a Language of Ireland
UIP: Our Aims

The Ullans Ireland Project summarises its aims as follows:

* Assist in the making of Ullans having official status in
   Ireland as equal with Irish and English
* Foster understanding of a shared history and shared
   future between Scot and Gael.
* The creation of a politically and sectarianly independent
   forum for the promotion of Ulster Scots.
* The preservation and standardisation of Ulster Scots.

To these ends, we propose and promote the ideas that all nationalist parties adapt a resolution to make Ulster Scots a langauge of any future united Irish state.

It is also proposed that unionist parties deman it is a native language of the United Kingdom while the region is under British control.

Further, that it be given full recognition by the European union on par with Irish.

Education

By highlighting the role of Ulster Scots speakers and writers who were not of the Unionist perusasion over the past few hundred years, we hope to seperate the idea many have that it is a language for Unionists only.

By the creation of Gaelic - Ullans lists and dictionary programes, we hope to frame each langauge in the tongue of the other, that is to have a Ullans ductionary from Irish and vice versa.

Parity of Esteem

An idea dismissed as idiotic at the time was Lord Lairds assertation that Ireland should if united, if not before, give the Ullans version of plcenames on par with Irish. As cultural recognition goes, and to help esteem of languages and cultures, we are of the opinion, that may not be a bad idea at all.


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