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Nadine Lee
St Patrick's Scottish Heritage
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It's the most Irish day of the year, so what better time to brush up on the history of Ireland's well-known patron saint. As Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated today by Irish communities in all corne...
Topics: Celts, Druids, Hadrian's Wall, Ireland, Roman Britain, Saint Patrick, Saint Patrick's Day
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Nadine Lee
Hunt On For Highland Strongman
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Scotland's original strongman, Donald Dinnie (1837–1916). Organisers of the Aboyne Highland Games have issued a plea for help tracking down an elusive Highland Games competitor. The strongman is on...
Topics: Aboyne Highland Games, Donald Dinnie, Highland Games, Peter Puszer
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Nadine Lee
Work Begins on Clan Donald Village
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Kilbeg Village Master Plan Construction work began this week on the first planned village for over 100 years on the Isle of Skye. A project initiated by the Clan Donald Lands Trust, the 21st centur...
Topics: Alex Salmond, clan donald, Clan Donald of Sleat, Kilbeg Village, Nicola Sturgeon, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye
Nadine Lee
Talking Folk with The ELephant Sessions
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The Elephant Sessions performing at Northern Roots 2013. Photo by Roddy Mackenzie. Hailing from Inverness, The Elephant Sessions are an upcoming act set to make waves on the traditional Scottish mu...
Topics: Folk Music, Inverness, music, The Elephant Sessions, Traditional Scottish Music
Nadine Lee
Bannockburn Visitor Centre Ready for Battle
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A 3D Robert the Bruce visits his troops at the new Bannockburn Visitor Centre We're just back from a quick trip up the road to just outside Stirling to check out the new Bannockburn Visitor Centre,...
Topics: 700th Anniversary of Bannockburn, Bannockburn, Bannockburn 2014, Bannockburn Visitor Centre, Robert the Bruce, Sir James Douglas
Nadine Lee
Romancing the Stone: Curling's Scottish Heritage
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On Thin Ice - Team GB at Sochi Olympic Games 2014 Who could have thought that a sport whose humble beginnings can be traced back five centuries to a frozen Scottish lake, would become one of the bi...
Topics: Curling, Grand Caledonian Curling Club, Kilsyth Curling Club, Rabbie Burns, Royal Caledonian Curling Club, Scottish immigration to Canada, Scottish Inventions, Scottish Sport, Sochi WInter Olympic Games 2014, Team GB, Winter Olympics
Nadine Lee
Clan Event Fund Recipients Announced
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Recipients of the Scottish Government's Clan Event Fund were announced today, with over £26,000 in funding awarded to clan events as part of 2014 Homecoming Scotland celebrations. Enterprise and Tour...
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Nadine Lee
Hands Across Hadrian's Wall
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Hadrian's Wall A Tory MP has called for 100,000 Britons to hold hands across Hadrian's Wall this summer, in order to prevent Scotland voting for independence. Once used as a defensive fortification...
Topics: Emperor Hadrian, Hadrian's Wall, Hands Across the Border, MP Angus MacNeil, MP Rory Stewart, Roman Empire, Scottish independence
Nadine Lee
Macbeth News: Blockbuster Set to Film on Skye, Windfarm...
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Macbeth Illustration The Isle of Skye has been confirmed as a shooting location for the latest version of Macbeth to take to the silver screen. The Hollywood blockbuster, starring Oscar contender M...
Topics: Dunsinane Hill, Hollywood, Isle of Skye, MacBeth, Marion Cotrillard, Micahel Fassbender, Scottish Accent, Shakespeare, Wind Farm
Nadine Lee
Glencoe Plaque Found in Edinburgh Antique Shop
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The Glencoe Massacre Site Plaque - Image courtesy Deadline News A plaque commemorating the victims of the Glencoe Massacre has been discovered in an Edinburgh antique shop, 40 years after it went m...
Topics: Antiques, Clan Campbell, Clan MacDonald, edinburgh, glencoe, Glencoe Massacre
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