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Radio Ulster,4 mins

SeriesSeries 11

James Fenton's work on the Hamely Tongue

A Kist o Wurds

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James Fenton tells Liam Logan about his youth and how he first started to value the Ulster-Scots language when he was at teacher training college in Belfast. He tells Liam about beginning to collect the vocabulary which he ultimately published as ‘The Hamely Tongue’. (Broadcast: 31 May 2006)

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