About this Event
Join us at the Discover Ulster-Scots Centre for our next Quare Nicht, featuring Skailt, a play by award-winning writer and playwright Anne McMaster.
It’s 1718. Harvests have failed, rents are rising and Presbyterians face restrictions on public life. Across Ulster, families are preparing to leave for America.
Among them is Lizzie, a young lass from Aghadowey. She packs a few seeds, hoping to grow food when she arrives. She’s never seen the sea, and now she’s about to cross the Atlantic.
Performed in Ulster-Scots and English, Skailt tells the story of one of the first great waves of eighteenth-century emigration from Ulster to America through the voices of Ulster-Scots women. Through Lizzie, we see what it meant to leave home, what they took with them and who they had to leave behind.
Thursday 26 November 2026 at 7pm
Discover Ulster-Scots Centre, Belfast
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Discover Ulster-Scots Centre, 1 - 9 Victoria Street, Belfast, United Kingdom
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