Well, for all your information. What you describe as dialect is not dialect it is a language in its own right. It is Ulster Scots and is recognised by the European Government. It is spoken by 140 thousand people in Northern Ireland. It has its own culture and music and dance and poetry and flags.
There is a great growth interest in this at the moment and lots of people are finding out that they are not Irish at all but Ulster Scots. If people think they understand ourlanguage it is only because they have been listening to it for centuries without realising it. They call it a dialect but that is insulting to a language. Sam