09/06/14
BBC Northern Ireland launches a topical new monthly magazine series celebrating the culture, language and lives of the Ulster-Scots. The Gaitherin which begins on Thursday, June 12 on BBC Two Northern Ireland at […]
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18/04/14
Northern Ireland Screen is pleased to announce the first call in 20114-15 for the Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund. The closing date for the first call is 5pm on Friday 27th June 2014. Full details […]
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11/03/14
Five medieval Scots fables, translated by Seamus Heaney, have been brought into the 21st century as enchanting animated tales for BBC Two Northern Ireland. Narrated by acclaimed comedian/actor Billy Connolly and with a […]
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09/12/13
Wednesday 11th December BBC One Northern Ireland, 10.35pm Stand-up comic and writer Tim McGarry embarks on a two-part journey for BBC Northern Ireland to discover more about his Ulster Scots identity. Produced and […]
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30/10/13
The closing date for the latest call for the Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund is 5pm on Monday 4th November 2013. Full details on funding available can be found in the Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund section […]
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23/10/13
Stumpy’s Brae, a chilling new horror drama, is due to be broadcast on BBC Two Northern Ireland on Halloween night (Thursday, October 31) at 10pm. Directed by Chris Baugh from Omagh, County Tyrone, […]
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21/10/13
She is regarded as the UK’s most prominent feminist of the nineteenth century. A woman who not only persuaded Queen’s University, Belfast, to allow girls to sit exams for the first time but […]
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10/09/13
Music has played a big part in the popular Santer television series. Musicians and singers from all over the world have appeared on the series along with local and Scottish performers. We now […]
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05/09/13
Celebrity chefs Paul Rankin and Nick Nairn have returned for a new series of the maritime cooking adventure, Paul and Nick’s Big Food Trip. Mondays at 8pm on UTV. The eight-part series, sees […]
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14/06/13
Northern Ireland Screen is pleased to announce the second call in 2013/14 (ninth call overall) for the Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund. The closing date for the second call is 5pm on Friday 21st June […]
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28/05/13
Dan Cruickshank is Britain’s leading art & architectural historian. In this series expert Dan takes us on a personal journey to explore various aspects of Ulster’s architectural history. The series features four themed […]
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09/05/13
Paul and Nick’s Big Food Trip, produced by Holywood-based Waddell Media, is enjoying international success in Australia, New Zealand and parts of Asia. The Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund series made its debut on UTV […]
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25/04/13
Four hundred years ago, one of the most intensively mapped regions in the entire world was not the new territories of the Americas, or the exotic spice trails of the Far East. It […]
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18/04/13
Search…. Submit Show Advanced Search Show Advanced Search Apr 18 2013 Committee Members for Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund sought Northern Ireland Screen is seeking to appoint up to three independent representatives for the Ulster-Scots […]
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15/04/13
Northern Ireland comedian Kevin McAleer is back with a bang in Our Friends in the North. With money pouring into “Ulster-Scots” culture and language in the north, he wonders just who these people […]
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22/02/13
Presented by Dan Cruickshank, the series will feature four themed episodes, Forts and Castles, Country Life, Sacred Spaces, and City of Industry. In each episode Dan will examine how a particular style and […]
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25/01/13
Northern Ireland Screen is seeking to appoint up to three independent representatives for the Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund (USBF) Investment Committee. The new Investment Committee, chaired by a Northern Ireland Screen Board Member, will […]
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25/01/13
Friday 25th January on BBC Two Northern Ireland 9.00pm: An Ode to Burns and Ulster 9.30pm: Eddie Reader’s Rabbi Burns Trip Two new productions funded through the Northern Ireland Screen Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund […]
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07/01/13
Ulster Unearthed is a new archaeology and heritage series which will reveal stories of Northern Ireland’s past and its Ulster-Scots links, starting on Monday 7 January at 8pm on UTV. Using laser technology […]
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26/11/12
At the closest point Scotland and the North Antrim Coast are just twelve miles apart, and the migration of people between the two countries has been going on for centuries. Helen Mark left […]
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27/09/12
In September 1912, nearly half a million Unionist men and women signed the Ulster Covenant. Now, 100 years on from this historic moment, a new Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund documentary from DoubleBand Films explores […]
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09/04/12
Paul Rankin and Nick Nairn take their cooking to the high seas this Spring as they sail down the coasts of Northern Ireland and Scotland in a tasty cooking adventure in Paul and […]
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27/02/12
The Northern Ireland Screen funded short film, THE SHORE, produced by Terry George and Oorlagh George and written and directed by Terry George scooped the Academy Award® for best Live Action Short Film […]
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