Northern Ireland author aiming to bring Ulster-Scots to international audience
An award-winning author has spoken of her efforts to address the under-representation of the rural Northern Ireland experience in literature and to bring Ulster-Scots to an international audience.
Jan Carson from Ballymena also said there was “chronic” underfunding of artists in Northern Ireland, pointing out that funding in the Republic of Ireland is five times higher.
Ms Carson, a former winner of the EU Prize for Literature, has recently returned form the US where she was part of a group of Northern Ireland female
