Angeline King Writer

Thank you UU for the Writer in Residency, the PhD and everything before and after! ❣️

@mornawriter Isn’t it stunning. If only I could sing!

@Angelinekking Oh Angeline, this is beautiful! Merry Christmas! Blythe Yuletide!

The best Christmas present ever❣️Last year, I adapted ‘Silent Night’ into Ulster Scots, based on the metre of the German and Dutch versions. This is stunning! Like tartan, #UlsterScots comes into its own at Christmas. Thank you Lisa Dawson. youtu.be/BfCneKoJbyU

@jimtgreer @MarkThompStuff I was going to write a poem! :)

@MarkThompStuff There's a novel, or a box set, in that short report alone.

Pennsylvania, 1759 – 18 year old Martha Steward, a runaway "Irish servant girl ... she came from Antrim, in the North of Ireland, and talks much in the Scotch manner". She had run away from a plantation owned by Joseph Sims in Passyunk Township outside Philadelphia, with 20 shillings offered to anyone who could return her to her Master.

Peadar O'Rafferty - Forgotten #Belfast cross-community hero. (And the man who may have introduced the kilt to Irish dancing!) angelineking.com/blog/peadar-or… #IrishDancing #IrishFolkDancing #FestivalIrishDancing #CLRG #Belfast

The video recording of our Poetry Jukebox: Fragments of Scotch Poetry launch is now available to view on our website: linenhall.com/poetry-jukebox… #LinenHall #OpeningMinds #Belfast

On International Volunteers Day we would like to say a huge thank you to all of our Federation Representatives. Serving police officers, who, over and above their core policing duties have volunteered to represent and support their colleagues. Raising issues of concern around health & safety, wellbeing and welfare, their role is crucial for both PFNI and PSNI. Sometimes dealing with highly emotive issues and providing a listening ear, and quite often done in their own time. Thank you for all that you do on behalf of our members. #LETTHEMPROTECT #WEAREYOU

Terrance Hayes has been appointed as the fifth Seamus Heaney International Visiting Poetry Fellow at @QUBelfast. Read more about it here: artscouncil-ni.org/news/terrance-…

Home from #Edinburgh and reflecting on dreams I didn’t even know I had: 1. Feature in a jukebox. 2. Read at the Scottish Poetry Library 3. Be on stage with two Scottish makars. #ScottishPoetryLibrary #poetryjukebox #linenhalllibrary #poetry #scottishmakar

Great evening celebrating the launch of UlsterScots poetry jukebox at the Scottish poetry library last night

What an epic event at the Scottish Poetry Library @ByLeavesWeLive. So grateful to @thelinenhall and all the organisers for the opportunity to share a stage with Kathleen Jamie, Peter Mackay, Steve Dornan and Maria McManus. Thanks also for your hospitality Keven & Asif.

We had a wonderful time last night at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh launching the Poetry Jukebox and our 'Fragments of Scotch Poetry' curation. We celebrated the rich connectedness of Scotland and Ulster in a wide-ranging discussion about poetry, culture and language, and with readings by some of the poets in the curation. We would like to thank the @ByLeavesWeLive, the poets who came along to support the event, and all the poets who contributed to this curation. Thanks also to the co-curators of the jukebox, Maria McManus and Professor Frank Ferguson. A special thank you to the @CommunitiesNI for their generous financial support for this project and to @poetryireland and the @dfatirl whose support enabled us to take the jukebox to Edinburgh. Photo left to right: Maria McManus, Jukebox co-curator; Scotland's Makar @PadraigMacaoidh ; Linen Hall Librarian, Samantha McCombe; poets @mornawriter , Kathleen Jamie, Stephen Dornan and @Angelinekking #LinenHall #OpeningMinds #Belfast

6 Reasons To Come To The Launch of the Poetry Jukebox 6. Maria McManus Poet Maria McManus will chair the event. She co-curated this edition of Poetry Jukebox, is a member of Irish PEN, and Deputy Chair of Poetry Ireland. Details: eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-jukeb…

Why thank you!

6 Reasons To Come To The Launch of the Poetry Jukebox 1. THE POETRY JUKEBOX The main attraction! The SPL will host the Poetry Jukebox, home to new recordings of poems responding to the work of Robert Burns & his 18thC contemporaries in Ulster. Details: eventbrite.co.uk/o/scottish-poe…

Small Christmas cards – 10 pack **ON SALE** A 10-pack of small Christmas cards featuring local artwork and an Irish Christmas blessing.   £5.00 turasbelfast.com/product/cartai…

NEW - blog post on #IrishDancing and the contribution of Peadar O'Rafferty from #Belfast. angelineking.com/blog/peadar-or…

@UlsterScotsAgen @RabLennox @mornawriter Thank you! :)

@Angelinekking @RabLennox @mornawriter Will have you copy in Edinburgh on Thursday

And here it is !! Yarns 5 !! Incredible to be included again between the covers of such a fantastic collection of Ulster-Scots writing. So many talented writers, taking the language and creating such amazing work. Check it out ! @mornawriter @Angelinekking @UlsterScotsAgen