Charlie Gillen lives in Dervock, near Coleraine in County Antrim. He loves bluegrass music and works for the Water Board. His friend, Charlie Reynolds, grew up speaking Ulster-Scots from his father. The two men recite poetry and rhymes both together and on their own.

	"I could talk Ulster-Scots but I couldn't teach nobody nothing."
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He has a great recall for unusual words and phrases, and can shed light on meanings often long forgotten.

	"But for me, it's a beetle for beetling champ."
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Charlie is well known in his area as a talented and enthusiastic Ulster-Scots speaker and story-teller. In this short extract, he talks about his pride in his history and his identity as an Ulster-Scot.

	"Och, I'm proud to be what I am because my ancestors got nothing reached to them"
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Not everyone, however, takes such a pride in the language and culture. Charlie Reynolds recounts a meeting he had with one man who felt Ulster-Scots culture was dead:

	"Someone said to me, 'you know, we really have no culture,' and I thought, a pity of him. In my eyes he was a lost soul nearly. He didn’t have any connections to anything."
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