Stephen Dornan
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| Born | Stephen Dornan 1978 (age 47–48) County Down, Northern Ireland |
| Occupation | Poet, essayist, academic |
| Language | English, Ulster Scots |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Poetry, essays |
| Subject | Ulster Scots literature |
Stephen "Steve" Dornan (born 1978)[1] is a poet and essayist from County Down, Northern Ireland. Based in north-east Scotland, Dornan is known for his literary work in Ulster Scots.[2][3][4][5] As an academic, Stephen Dornan has also contributed to the recovery of historic works of literature in Ulster Scots, including that of Scotch-Irish novelist James McHenry. Graham Walker and James Greer have cited Dornan as a participant in the 'Ulster-Scots literary revival'.[6] Frank Ferguson commented that he makes use of Ulster-Scots "to question literary and linguistic traditions and boundaries."[7] Carol Baraknuik described Dornan as "a fine writer of Ulster-Scots poetry", whilst also noting his work on Robert Burns.[8]
Dornan grew up in Newtownards and Comber, County Down, and was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the University of Aberdeen, where he completed a doctorate.[9] He has published Ulster Scots poetry in journals including Irish Pages, The Honest Ulsterman and Modern Poetry in Translation.[1][10][11][12] His poetry collection, Tha Jaa Banes, was published by the Ulster-Scots Academy Press.[13][14] Dornan won the Frances Browne Ulster-Scots Poetry Competition in 2022 and the Linen Hall Ulster-Scots Poetry Competition the same year.[15][16] His poetry collection Tha Jaa Banes was nominated for Scots Book of the Year at the Scots Language Awards in 2021.[17] In 2024, Dornan contributed to Sleekit: Contemporary poems in the Burns stanza, an anthology of contemporary poems in the Standard Habbie form, edited by Lou Selfridge.[18] In 2025, he was selected for the Linen Hall Library Scotch Fragments project.[19] In 2026, he served as a judge for the Linen Hall Library Ulster-Scots Writing Competition.[20]
Selected works
- The Jaa Banes
- Robert Burns and Ulster Scots Poetry
- Irish and Scottish Poetry in the Romantic Era
- Sleekit Loanens[21]
- Scots in Two Early Ulster Novels
- Robert Burns and Hibernia: Irish Romanticism and Caledonia’s Bard
- Radical Politics and Dialect in the British Archipelago
- Thomas Dermody, Robert Burns and the Killeigh cycle
- Irish and American Frontiers in the Novels of James McHenry
- Beyond the Milesian Pale: The Poetry of James Orr
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dornan, Stephen (2010). "IN THE 'HABBIE' STANZA". Irish Pages. 6 (2): 90–99 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ Ferguson, Frank (2024). "Still Rhyming on Weavers". Fortnight. 492: 25 – via JSTOR.
Significantly there is something of an Ulster-Scots literary revival under way, with writers such as Steve Dornan, Angeline King, Angela Graham, Robert Campbell, Al Millar and Anne McMaster writing fiction and poetry utilising, or playing with, variations of Ulster-Scots
- ↑ "What Have The Ulster-Scots Ever Done For Us?". Northern Ireland Screen. 25 October 2024.
- ↑ Gray, David (2017). "'Stemmed from the Scots'? The Ulster-Scots Literary 'Braird' and the Pastoral Tradition". Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an Dá Chultúr. 32: 28–43 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ Millar, Alan (8 August 2023). "Ulster-Scots writers shining bright at the Sunflower: 'Don't speak of the Ulster-Scots twilight any longer' Dr Frank Ferguson". Ballymoney Chronicle.
- ↑ Walker, Graham; Greer, James (2023). Ties That Bind?: Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Unio. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-1788558174.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ↑ Ferguson, Frank (2023). "Writing Around the State: Memory Cultures in Contemporary Northern Irish Writing. (2023): 103". TRANSitions. Transdisciplinary, Transmedial and Transnational Cultural Studies Transdisziplinäre, transmediale und transnationale Studien zur Kultur. 103: 103–116.
- ↑ Baraniuk, Carol (2023). "Guest Editorial: Burns and Ireland". Burns Chronicle. Edinburgh University Press. 132 (2): ix–xvi.
- ↑ Dornan, Stephen (2019). "UNSETTLING RECOLLECTIONS". Irish Pages. 10 (2): 56–58 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ Dornan, Steve (October 2017). "The Line Proposed, or Ulster Scots sonnets on L.L. MacAssey". The Honest Ulsterman.
- ↑ Dornan, Stephen (2009). "Irish and American Frontiers in the Novels of James McHenry". Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies. 3 (1): 139–156.
- ↑ Dornan, Steve. "Ding Doon tha Mairch Dikes: Bakhtiyar Vahabzade, Translated from Ulster Scots". modernpoetryintranslation.com.
- ↑ Dornan, Stephen (2020). Tha Jaa Banes: An Ulster-Scots Collection. Belfast: Ulster-Scots Academy Press. ISBN 1916375812.
- ↑ "A Thran Podcast Special: Celebrating Burns Night with Award-Winning Poet Stephen Dornan". Northern Ireland Screen. 21 January 2025.
- ↑ Graham, Angela (23 November 2022). "Ulster-Scots writers throw off the 'English with a Ballymena accent' jibes". The Irish Times.
- ↑ Graham, Angela. "Developments in Ulster-Scots Writing". Irish Literary Society.
- ↑ "Scots Language Awards 2021: "Tha Jaa Banes" by Stephen Dornan". Scots Language Awards. 2021.
- ↑ Sledmere, Maria (2024). "One poem: Tapering". University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
- ↑ "Poetry Jukebox Launch: Fragments of Scotch Poetry". Linen Hall Website. 22 October 2025.
- ↑ https://linenhall.com/ulster-scots-writing-competition-2026/
- ↑ Dornan, Stephen (2014). "SLEEKIT LOANENS". Irish Pages. 8 (1): 184–187 – via JSTOR.
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