Betsy Gray - the legendary heroine of story, poem and ballad - is said to have been the daughter of Hans Gray, a prosperous North Down Presbyterian farmer and a United Irishman.
This classic novel transports us to those troubled and stirring days of 1798 when Betsy joined her brother George and fiance Willie Boal in the ‘Turn Oot’.
This is one of a series of reprints by Books Ulster and the Ulster-Scots Academy, entitled ‘Ulster-Scots Classics’.
Word: Ye maun quit it
Word: Ye hae a gie sherp tongue in yer heid
Word: wheesht
Word: wheen
Word: terble fand o’
Word: quat
Word: ower the heid o'
Word: ower ocht
Word: no jist a' there
Word: layin oot
Word: a wat nicht
Word: furnenst
Word: fur fear o’
Word: dunt
Word: dinnae gang by athoot callin’
Word: cleened my plate
Word: caul
Word: bairns
Word: A'll no see ye stuck
Word: afeart
Word: A gruppit hoult
Word: A pluckit-up heart
Word: a dale mair
Book: A Blad o Ulster-Scotch frae Ullans
Book: Auld Meetin Hoose, The
Book: Country Rhymes of James Orr, The
Book: Daft Eddie or The Smugglers of Strangford Lough
Library: Elma Wickins visits Greyabbey graveyard
Book: Kidnappit
Book: Ordnance Survey Letters - Down
Book: Precious and the Puggies: Precious Ramotswe's Very First Case
Book: Robin's Readings
Book: Sons of the Sod
Book: The Back Streets o The Claw
Organisation: Ulster Scots Language Society
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