The Toon: Back to Ballymoney

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Location

Ballymoney, Lincoln

Year

2022

Date

Length

29min 11sec

Audio

sound

Format

Digital

colour

Source

Triplevision Productions Ltd

Courtesy

BBC NI, Triplevision Productions Ltd, USBF

Rights Holder

Triplevision Productions Ltd

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Description

Home is everything to writer Ewen Glass - he's from Ballymoney, Ulster-Scots born and bred. But how can he preserve his language and Ulster-Scots cultural identity when he's living in England and how can he ensure his son, Nathaniel, grows up respecting, appreciating and understanding this heritage? In this film Ewen, now based in Lincoln, returns to 'the toon', to Ballymoney, which he still claims as ‘hame’. Hame isn’t a nostalgic tug at the heartstrings, it’s something richer and deeper, and always there. A sense of belonging.  

Credits

Presenter - Ewen Glass

Thanks to - Anna Wilkinson,  The Ballymoney Chronicle, The Little Mill Bistro, Tik Tok, The Schomberg Society, Ballymoney Model Integrated Primary School

Executive Producer for Triplevisions Productions - Paul McGuigan

Executive Producer for BBC NI - Fiona Keane

Filmed and Directed by Gerard Stratton

Producer and Director - Eamonn Devlin.

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