The video below comes courtesy of fUSe FM radio station. Thanks to 1690 for making a wider audience aware.

The station says of itself “South Londonderry Ulster-Scots Association are bringing the non-profit Ulster-Scots Agency fUSe FM radio station to Maghera and the surrounding area ( hopefully transmitting as far as Magherafelt and Kilrea ). The radio station has been successfully transmitting in Ballymoney and other locations over recent years via local Ulster-Scots community groups. It is provisionally due to broadcast from the 17th August 2009 until the 3rd of September and will operate out of Maghera Orange Hall. As such we are looking for volunteer DJ`s and acts willing to participate on prerecorded and / or live local radio. We are looking for anything concerning local music, history & culture. We are also looking for local sponsors for the station and the individual shows which will encompass a range of different musical styles from Irish / Ulster-Scots folk & country music to more modern pop music.”

There’s more of the same here.  I have to disagree with their “translation” of scundered  as meaning “fed up”. The only sense in which I’ve heard it used, admittedly only by those of a Romish persuasion, is “mortified” or “embarrassed”, eg “I was quare scundered”.

 

 

7 responses to “Ulster Scots – maybe it's wrong to laugh but…”

  1. Seen worse. You should go to more folk clubs.

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  2. splinteredsunrise Avatar
    splinteredsunrise

    This is purely guesswork, but I’d lay money that the Rev William McCrea will be starring on the playlist. You couldn’t have a wireless station up that way without playing Magherafelt’s answer to Elvis.

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  3. While it’s commendable that the man in the video has created a sublime literary work out of a trip to the butcher the less funny side is the public money that is being thrown at this charade.

    “Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch” now has a fancy modern office smack in the heart of Belfast. I’m all in favour of state job creation schemes in a recession but at least they should be in some way socially useful.

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  4. I think it’s serving a valuable social purpose and offering objectively significant assistance to the work of revolutionaries in the six counties. Any time somebody says Northern Ireland’s just a normal modern European region, point ’em at that.

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  5. splinteredsunrise Avatar
    splinteredsunrise

    What do you mean, it isn’t socially useful? Haven’t you been into a Jobcentre and picked up a New Deal leaflet in Ulster Scots? Where would the toiling masses be without such provision?

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  6. Ballix til the lat o’ yis,

    Ah amnae tae sure wur yis awl live, but ah wud like fur til draw yer attention tae the TV show TnaG, an’ Wireless stations such as Highland Radio.

    Ireland, Nairth an’ Saith, is full o’ such paraochial claptrap, sae dinnae attempt tae use a few boys in Maghera as a big stick fur til bate the entire Unionist population wi’. It is aisy fur tae sit in some revolutionary drameland, imaginin’ downtrodden Derry Wans fichtin’ the Brits, but git yersel tae the true continuity heartlands o’ rural Derry, Armagh etc an’ yi’ll fine big fingered bigots dancin’ til country an western. A close examination o’ thar opinions oan lefty things like abortion, immigration, homosexuality etc micht jist shak ye.

    Yiv prabably mair in common wi’ intelligent Unionists thin thy’on.

    The Maghera area isnae exactly a hotbed o’ the Alliance party, on either side.

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