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Subject: [S-I] Digitising Ulster Poets
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:20:00 EDT

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Ulster Poetry Project - University of Ulster, Coleraine
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This Friday evening sees the launch of a new initiative, the Ulster Poetry
Project, at the University of Ulster (Coleraine). The project involves the
digitisation of important Ulster poetry from the 1800s and 1900s. As you
might imagine, many significant Ulster-Scots texts are included in the
selection, such as:

• Campbell, James, The Poems and Songs of James Campbell of Ballynure :
with additional songs not before published, (Ballyclare, 1870)

• Huddleston, Robert, A Collection of Poems and Songs on Rural Subjects,
(Belfast, 1844)

• Huddleston, Robert, A Collection of Poems and Songs on Different
Subjects, (Belfast, 1846)

• McKenzie, Andrew Poems and Songs on Different Subjects, (Belfast 1810)

• Porter, Hugh, Poetical Attempts / by Hugh Porter, a County of Down
Weaver, (Belfast, 1813)

• Savage-Armstrong, George Francis, Ballads of Down, (London, 1901)

• Sloan, Edward L, The Bard's Offering : a Collection of Miscellaneous
Poems, (Belfast, 1854)

Over recent months here at the 'Burn I've referred to both
Savage-Armstrong and Campbell - it's great to see their work being brought to wider public
availability. Dr Frank Ferguson is to be congratulated for developing the
Project - and for delivering high quality, authentic, uncontroversial work
with Ulster-Scots language and literature.
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