The following titles constitute a major selection of the poetry books of the 19th and early 20th centuries from the province of Ulster that contain a significant amount of Ulster-Scots linguistic features , and also which contain a number of literary genres, themes and motifs that derive from the Lowland Scots vernacular tradition.
This selection demonstrates that far from being an isolated or relatively infrequent occurrence Ulster-Scots writing created a sustained and significant corpus of texts whose effects are still felt in Ulster speech and writing today
Collection Index
- Beggs, Minstrel's Offering (2nd part; 1836)
- Beggs, Rathlin (1828)
- Bleakley, Moral & Religious Poems (1840)
- Brown, Lyrics & Miscellaneous Poems (1848)
- Carson, Poems, Odes, Songs and Satires (1831)
- Colhoun, Poems on Several Occasions (1810)
- Leech, Poems on Various Subjects (1828)
- Lynn, Random Rhymes frae Cullybackey (1911)
- M'Kenzie, Masonic Chaplet (1832)
- O'Neill, Songs of the Glens of Antrim (1900)
- Orr, Poems, on Various Subjects (1804)
- Orr, The Posthumous Works (1817)
- Pooler, Translations and Other Verses (1900)
- Robinson, Antrim Idylls (1907)
- Robinson, Antrim Idylls. With Five New Poems (2nd ed. 1917)
- Savage-Armstrong, Ballads of Down (1901)
- Thompson, Simple Poems on a few subjects (1806)
- Wilson, The Coming of the Earls (1918)