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A Kist o Wurds is our weekly Ulster-Scots magazine show.

A Kist o Wurds brings you Ulster-Scots music, poetry, stories and history from round the country.

Since A Kist o Wurds began in 2002, it has been BBC Northern Ireland's longest-running Ulster-Scots radio programme.  Each week we bring you a selection of music, poetry and news from all over the country. Find out more about the language, culture, literary traditions and history of Ulster-Scots.

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Kist O Wurds: Series 40

A Kist o Wurds: Series 40: 07/01/2018

Linde Lunney

07/01/2018

Series 40

BBC Radio Ulster - A Kist o Wurds, Series 40, 07/01/2018

Helen Mark herars about the first successful mass emigration from Ulster to America.

Helen Mark is in Aghadowey to hear about the 300th anniversary of the Great Migration, and there are poems from Davy Moore of east Antrim and the Bard of Aghdowey, Wilson Burgess.

Helen Mark talks to Sam Burnside about his new collection of poems reflecting on the memorial site at Brackfield Bawn to the tens of thousands from Ireland who fell in World War I. Three hundred years from the first successful mass emigration from Ulster to America, Linde Lunney tells Helen why it's important to commemorate 1718 and the Rev. James McGregor, and in Derry, New Hampshire, Rick Holmes remembers this pioneering minister. Poems come from Davy Moore of east Antrim, and the Bard of Aghdowey, Wilson Burgess.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 40

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