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• The Years following the Plantation

  Economic problems affected the Scots settlers including drought, smallpox and famine.

  Duration: 2:36

• James Orr - Ulster's Robert Burns

  James Orr is held in great reverence in his home community of Ballycarry, Antrim. Dr David Hume takes Helen Mark to Orr's grave in Templecorran graveyard and tells her more about 'Ulster's Robert Burns'.

  Duration: 5:34

• The Rhyming Weavers - a View of Society

  Helen Mark finds out about the writings of the rhyming weaver poets of Ulster which reflect the liberal tendencies of the dissenter and radical of the end of the 18th century.

  Duration: 5:04

• Weaver Poets in Society

  Dr Ivan Herbison tells Helen Mark that many of the weaver poets had radical sympathies.

  Duration: 3:41
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