News

Former Ulster County Historian and current Associate Historian Geoffrey Miller has received the 2025 Individual National ...
The Ulster Grassland Society (UGS) held their Summer Meeting and barbecue in Fermanagh recently. The farm walk was held at Lisgoole Abbey Estate near Enniskillen where visiting farmers saw the beef ...
In the mid-1990s, I co-presented the ‘Frankly Anne Marie’ show with Ann Marie McAleese on BBC Radio Ulster. There wasn’t a festival in ...
When the latest Maine Ulster-Scots Project newsletter hit my inbox, I was delighted at their list of activities aimed at ...
Greer owned the right to the Ferguson brand name as he put up most of the development costs of £156,000. Harry Ferguson’s ...
JD Vance was boasting about his immigrant roots. “To understand me, you must understand that I am a Scots-Irish hillbilly at ...
“But there are others. I think that the Ulster-American story is one that needs to be heard more broadly.” ...
Meanwhile, the Ulster American Folk Park in Co Tyrone is to receive a £750,000 funding boost as part of a drive to increase cultural and heritage links with the US.
Ulster County purchased 38.6 miles of the corridor in 1979 and leased most of it to the Catskill Mountain Railroad in 1983. A subsequent 25-year lease to the tourism company expired in 2016.
Subsequently opened in 1976, the Ulster American Folk Park tells the story of people from Ulster’s emigration to North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.