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- James_Orr_(poet) comment "James Orr (1770 – 24 April 1816) was a poet or rhyming weaver from Ulster also known as the Bard of Ballycarry, who wrote in English and Ulster Scots. He was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver Poets, and was writing contemporaneously with Robert Burns. According to that other great Ulster poet, John Hewitt, he produced some material that was better than Burns.Orr joined the nationalist Society of United Irishmen in 1791 and took part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.".