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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)