tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714402943132349904.post5261664007100129169..comments2023-07-23T15:50:09.446+01:00Comments on Nelson's View: Burns and the Northern StarNelson McCausland MLAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11458324593112960421noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714402943132349904.post-61591676766128831722011-02-25T20:16:27.840+00:002011-02-25T20:16:27.840+00:00The Jens - Thank you for your post. I am delighte...The Jens - Thank you for your post. I am delighted to hear that you have spent the last six years researching Samuel Thomson. I would be interested to know more about the research and if you have published or intend to publish anything. What was it that led you to this particular interest? There is a need for more research on the Ulster poets of the time and I am glad to hear of your work.<brNelson McCausland MLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11458324593112960421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714402943132349904.post-70771151239882679462011-02-25T12:16:39.247+00:002011-02-25T12:16:39.247+00:00Excellent post Minister!
It is great to see Sam...Excellent post Minister! <br /><br />It is great to see Samuel Thomson mentioned here, particularly as I have spent the last six years researching him. If I might suggest that he is no more a 'folk poet' than Robert Burns since he published 75% of his poetry in standard English of a high quality and his later work, particularly, examines the same intellectual themes as many of his Literary Networks and Dissenting Print Culturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01461244610960922751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714402943132349904.post-35212316713456496472011-02-14T01:42:10.931+00:002011-02-14T01:42:10.931+00:00Daithi - Robert Burns was certainly a radical and ...Daithi - Robert Burns was certainly a radical and a child of the Scottish Enlightenement. However your understanding of Burns must be rather superficial. I have posted before about Burns and politics and rather than deal with it on this thread I will start a separate post.<br /><br />BTW I deleted some of your other comments because I could not make head or tail of them - they were simply Nelson McCausland MLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11458324593112960421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714402943132349904.post-17493076531348439512011-02-13T02:20:03.393+00:002011-02-13T02:20:03.393+00:00Robert Burns was a Republican and a Radical Republ...Robert Burns was a Republican and a Radical Republican at that.<br /><br />Scots Wha Hae !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714402943132349904.post-59687220185297526982011-01-27T23:00:51.936+00:002011-01-27T23:00:51.936+00:00The language that was known as Scotch in Scotland ...The language that was known as Scotch in Scotland was brought to Ulster at the start of the 17th century by the Scottish settlers. Here in Ulster it was also known as 'Scotch' or 'braid Scotch'. It became a variant of the 'Scotch' spoken in Scotland and today it is generally known as Ulster-Scots.Nelson McCausland MLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11458324593112960421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714402943132349904.post-51034499888827005342011-01-27T20:18:02.413+00:002011-01-27T20:18:02.413+00:00Is the language that was generally known as Scotc...Is the language that was generally known as Scotch or braid Scotch the same braid Scotch that was spoken in Scotland? Is it still spoken? What is it known as now?Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275343798425345080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714402943132349904.post-89949367672922410072011-01-26T21:46:02.792+00:002011-01-26T21:46:02.792+00:00Yes it was. The language was generally known as S...Yes it was. The language was generally known as Scotch or braid Scotch. The Ordnance Survey Memoirs of the 1830s also used the term Scotch.Nelson McCausland MLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11458324593112960421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714402943132349904.post-31991495594468717702011-01-26T19:05:02.844+00:002011-01-26T19:05:02.844+00:00The 1780 Surveyor observed that the people of Belf...The 1780 Surveyor observed that the people of Belfast spoke broad Scotch. Was that the same language as the Ulster-Scots language of the hearth and home?Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275343798425345080noreply@blogger.com