Ulster Scots, Ulster Irish, Irish Scots, Ulster Gaelic, Gaeilge Uladh
As Summer rolls on and disputes rumble regarding the possibility (or not) of the enactment of an Irish Language Act – or a Languages Act – or a Culture(s) Act, we seem to be stuck in a labyrinth of ever decreasing circles or some Byzantine entrapment from which there is no escape. As Christy Moore once sang: For all of our languages we can’t communicate. As an Irish speaker I’m conflicted about Ulster Scots. It’s clearly a dialect of English …