Doon tha Wal Raa: Ulster-Scots Crack fae Ballywalter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781739905620)

Doon tha Wal Raa is a collection of stories, local history snapshots, poems, and letters; all written in Ulster-Scots by William Cromie, a fluent native speaker who also includes valuable observations on the distinctive character of the language itself in the Ards Peninsula.

Wullie Cromie was born in a cottage in Wal Raa (Well Road), Ballywalter, in 1936, and grew up in a world where everybody spoke Ulster-Scots, although to them it was just the way everybody talked. The Ulster-Scots stories recorded in this book were part of the wide repertoire that Wullie used 'ad lib' for his story-telling performances when he travelled the country for 30 years entertaining packed halls along with his Greba (Greyabbey) equivalent, Wull Muckleboy (Will McAvoy) - a duo that became local 'stars' known as the 'Twa Wulls'.

In providing these Ulster-Scots yarns as written texts for the express purpose of this publication, Wullie Cromie has demonstated for a wider audience his special talent for capturing the living language, history and culture of the area he called hame.

Author: Philip Robinson, William Cromie
ISBN-10: 1739905628
ISBN-13: 9781739905620
Publisher: Ulster-Scots Academy Press
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2024
Pages: 92
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.19d