The Ulster-Scots Community Network will host an activity day in Museum at The Mill, Mossley Mill on Saturday 13 October from 12 noon to 4pm.

Entrance will be free of charge and the activities will run alongside the current exhibition on display in the Museum ‘Hand to the Plough: The Impact and Influence of Robert Burns in Mid-Antrim’.

No booking is required so why not drop into the Museum, enjoy some traditional music, an introduction to the Ulster Scots language and poetry, and find out how to organise your own traditional Burns night.

Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns was primarily a songwriter and collector, writing a body of over 400 songs.  The influence of his legacy is felt particularly in Ulster, where his work and life in Ayrshire, bore strong comparisons to life in Ulster during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  It is clear this affinity with the poet was also evident in the mid Antrim area where local rural communities embraced cultural, religious and linguistic links with Scotland voiced by a distinctive rural poets known collectively as the rhyming weavers, also featured in the exhibition.

For more details contact Museum at The Mill on 028 9034 0129 or email museums@antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk