Posted on July 17, 2013
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Posted on February 6, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire on 25 January 1759.
His father was a gardener and tenant farmer, and the life he was brought up in made him acutely aware of society’s unfairness as he laboured hard yet lived in poverty.
In 1786 he published 612 copies of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish...
Posted on February 6, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
Novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott was born in 1771 in Edinburgh, one of six surviving infants from twelve.
At eighteen months he took ill with poliomyelitis but pulled through although with a lame right leg. He was well educated, studying at Edinburgh University. In 1792 he was admitted to the F...
Posted on February 6, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
The clan system regarded the land as belonging to their community, worked areas being passed down through the family while additional lands could be rented. As the generations passed, the clan chiefs became more wealthy and detached from their kinsmen, regarding them as their effects rather than t...
Posted on February 6, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
Sorley MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Somhairle MacGill-Eain, sometimes "MacGilleathain" in earlier publications) was born at Osgaig on the island of Raasay on 26 October 1911. At that time on Raasay, which lies between the Isle of Skye and the Scottsih Mainland, Gaelic was the first language.
His gra...
Posted on February 6, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
Wednesday 13th March 1996 should have been a normal school day for the children of Dunblane Primary School. Tragically it was not.
On that morning unemployed former shopkeeper Thomas Hamilton walked unchallenged into the school armed with two 9mm Browning HP pistols and two Smith and Wesson .357 ...
Posted on February 6, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
After the success of the Referendum in 1997 the First Minister Donald Dewar announced a competition for the design of Scotland's new parliament building. The winner was the design of Catalan architect, Enric Miralles.
His adventurous design with leaf shaped buildings and upturned boat style skyli...
Posted on February 6, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
Scotland has a fantastic reputation as a tourist destination, the dark rolling mountains, the crystal clear lochs and misty glens. Every year thousands of visitors flock to Scotland from America, Japan, Europe and um err Outer Space!
But strangely our little green backpackers don’t pour up the A9...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
From a time that predates the great Scottish King Robert the Bruce or even the exploits of Scottish Hero William Wallace there lived a great king of Scotland, Alexander III. A ruler who reigned over a great time of peace and prosperity in Scotland but who's tragic death plunged the country into a gr...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
Máel Coluim mac Domnaill was king of Scots, becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk. He was the son of Domnall mac Causantín.
In 945 Edmund of Wessex, having expelled Amlaíb Cuaran (Olaf Sihtricsson) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of ...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
Domnall mac Causantín was King of the Picts or King of Alba in the late 9th century. He was the son of Causantín mac Cináeda.
Domnall became king on the death or deposition of Giric mac Dúngail, the date of which is not certainly known but usually placed in 889.
It is thought that he was killed ...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
Eochaid may have been king of the Picts from 878 to 885 or 889. He was a son of Run, King of Strathclyde, and his mother may have been a daughter of Cináed mac Ailpín. His kingship is usually portrayed as some form of joint rule with Giric.
However there is no consensus as to whether Eochaid was ...
Posted on February 7, 2013 by Donald | 2 views | comments
Causantín mac Cináeda (died 877) was a son of Cináed mac Ailpín. Although tradition makes Causantín a king of Scots, it is clear from the entries in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba and the Annals of Ulster, that he was king of the Picts. He became king in 862 on the death of his uncle Domnall m...
Posted on July 16, 2013
by Amanda Moffet
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Posted on February 6, 2013
by Donald
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Posted on July 17, 2013
by Amanda Moffet
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