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Nadine Lee
Gaelic Music Needs Your Help
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Just as the descendents of Scottish emigrants can be found in every corner of the globe, so too can their language. Scottish Gaelic is the focus of a new musical project celebrating the languages sp...
Topics: Gaelic, Gaelic Music, Jim Sutherland, Kickstarter
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Nadine Lee
Gaelic Music Needs Your Help
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Just as the descendents of Scottish emigrants can be found in every corner of the globe, so too can their language. Scottish Gaelic is the focus of a new musical project celebrating the languages sp...
Topics: Gaelic, Gaelic Music, Jim Sutherland, Kickstarter
Nadine Lee
Barra's Seafaring History Goes Digital
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Launched on 16 Nov 2013, Sgeulachdan na Mara / Sea Stories is an innovative interactive map that reveals Barra's rich local knowledge, language and culture through the voices and experiences of the ...
Topics: barra, Fishing, MacNeil of Barra, Sea, Shipwrecks
Nadine Lee
Worldwide Call for 24 Hour Ceilidh
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People from across the world have been invited to join in a global ceilidh held over 24 hours next summer, as part of Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games celebrations. The Royal Scottish Country Dance...
Topics: 2014, Ceilidh, Commonwealth Games 2014, diaspora, glasgow, Scotland
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Nadine Lee
Royal Storm Hits Over Gaelic College Name
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A storm is erupting over the Royal designation given to a Canadian Gaelic College by Queen Elizabeth II. Colaisde na Gàidhlig - The Gaelic College in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia is to be styled immedi...
Topics: Canada, Cape Breton, diaspora, Emmigration to Canada, Gaelic in Schools, Gaelic Language, Nova Scotia, Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Gaelic College
Nadine Lee
A History of Christmas in Scotland
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Edinburgh at Christmas Time It's hard to imagine that once upon a time Christmas was banned for over 400 years in Scotland. Today shops are full of anything and everything Christmas related you cou...
Topics: Banning of Christmas, Catholic Church, Celtic Paganism, Christmas, John Knox, Scottish Reformation, Yule
Nadine Lee
Hundreds of Piping Santas Advance on Edinburgh
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Bagpipe playing Santa Clauses descended on Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens over the weekend, to help warm up runners at the city's annual Santa Run. Hundreds of runners and walkers dressed as Santa...
Topics: bagpipes, Christmas, edinburgh, Santa Claus, Stockbridge Pipe Band, Unicycle
Nadine Lee
Scots Christmas Fare
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Perhaps my favourite part of Christmas (after opening presents, of course), are the days spent feasting and picking at leftovers until you can't possibly eat anymore. Here's a compile of traditional...
Topics: Baking, Christmas, Clootie DUmpling, Cock-a-Leekie Soup, Cooking, Mary Queen of Scots, Roastit Bubbly-Jock, Shortbread, Theodora Fitzgibbon, Traditional Scottish Cookery, Traditional Scottish Food, Turkey
Nadine Lee
Top 5: Last Minute Gift Ideas
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For those of you stuck for Christmas gift ideas, here's a roundup of items over in our store at ScotClans.com that are in stock and ready to ship now! The final cut off date for Royal Mail Airmail is ...
Topics: Christmas, ScotClans Shop
Nadine Lee
Crowdfunding Appeal to Save Culloden Blunderbuss
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The National Trust for Scotland have launched an online crowdfunding appeal to save one of the few items removed from the historic battlefield at Culloden. The 343 year old blunderbuss, currently on...
Topics: 1745 Jacobite Rising, Blunderbuss, Culloden, Diana Gabaldon, Donate, National Trust for Scotland, Outlander
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