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Weaver Poets, Rhyming Weaver Poets and Ulster Weaver Poets were a collective group of poets belonging to an artistic movement who were both influenced by and contemporaries of Robert Burns
Robert Burns

Robert Burns was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland....
 and the Romantic movement.

he late eighteenth century, a number of men involved in the textiles industry, mostly confined to counties Antrim
County Antrim

County Antrim is one of six Counties of Northern Ireland that form Northern Ireland, and one of nine counties that historically and geographically constitute the Province of Ulster....
 and Down
County Down

County Down is one of the nine Counties of Ireland that form the province of Ulster and one of six counties that form Northern Ireland. The county forms an area of ....
 began to submit poems to newspapers and publishers.






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Weaver Poets, Rhyming Weaver Poets and Ulster Weaver Poets were a collective group of poets belonging to an artistic movement who were both influenced by and contemporaries of Robert Burns
Robert Burns

Robert Burns was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland....
 and the Romantic movement.

Origins

In the late eighteenth century, a number of men involved in the textiles industry, mostly confined to counties Antrim
County Antrim

County Antrim is one of six Counties of Northern Ireland that form Northern Ireland, and one of nine counties that historically and geographically constitute the Province of Ulster....
 and Down
County Down

County Down is one of the nine Counties of Ireland that form the province of Ulster and one of six counties that form Northern Ireland. The county forms an area of ....
 began to submit poems to newspapers and publishers. They were craftsmen and often self-employed. They are known specifically for writing poems in the common tongue of the time for that region, Scots
Ulster Scots language

Ulster Scots, also known as :Wiktionary:Ullans, generally refers to the varieties of Lowland Scots language spoken in parts of the province of Ulster in the north of Ireland....
. More often than not, they were working-class and not formally educated.

Some of the more well-known Weaver Poets were James Orr
James Orr (poet)

James Orr was a poet or Weaver Poets from Ulster also known as the Bard of Ballycarry, who wrote in English language and Ulster Scots. He was the foremost of the Weaver Poets, and was writing contemporaneously with Robert Burns....
 of Ballycarry
Ballycarry

Ballycarry is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated midway between Larne and Carrickfergus overlooking Islandmagee. It is within the Larne Borough Council area....
 and David Herbison - The Bard of Dunclug.

Style and form

The style they adopted was the standard Habbie as adopted from a Robert Sempill
Robert Sempill the younger

Robert Sempill, the younger , Scotland poet, son of Robert Sempill, was educated at the University of Glasgow, having matriculated in March 1613....
 poem by Robert Fergusson
Robert Fergusson

Robert Fergusson , Scotland poet, son of William Fergusson, a clerk in the British Linen Bank, was born in Edinburgh....
, himself a Scottish
Scottish people

The Scots people are a nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.Historically, as an ethnic group, they emerged from an amalgamation of Celts, Picts, Gaels and Brythons....
 weaver, and later by Burns.

Sometimes the poetry produced by the movement was political - Orr had joined the United Irishmen
Society of the United Irishmen

The Society of United Irishmen was founded as a Liberalism political organisation in eighteenth century Ireland that sought Parliament of Great Britain reform....
 in 1791 and took part in the United Irishmen Rebellion of 1798
Irish Rebellion of 1798

The Irish Rebellion of 1798 , or 1798 rebellion as it is known locally, was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against United Kingdom and its subject Kingdom of Ireland....
.

A large number of weaver poems were collected by poet John Hewitt. Hewitt bequeathed his entire collection to the University of Ulster
University of Ulster

The University of Ulster is a multi-centre university located in Northern Ireland and is the largest single university on the island of Ireland, discounting the federal National University of Ireland....
.