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Nadine Lee
Home to Hume
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Clan Hume Gathering at Hume Castle, 08/09/2013 Earlier in September Amanda and I traveled to the Scottish Borders to spend an afternoon at Hume Castle, where part of this years Clan Hume/Home gathe...
Topics: Battle of Flodden, Borders, Canada, Clan Associations, David Douglas-Home CVO CBE, David Hume, diaspora, Duke of Roxburghe, Earl of Home, Floors Caste, Home, Hume, Hume Castle, Isla St Clair, King James II of Scotland, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, United States
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Nadine Lee
Move Over Breaking Bad, Here Comes Bannan
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Scotland's Gaelic TV channel BBC Alba is hoping Bannan will appeal to a wider audience. Here's some great news for my fellow small-screen junkies - a new Scottish series will soon be hitting our sc...
Topics: 2011 Scottish Census, Bannan, BBC, Breaking Bad, Chris Young, Gaelic, River City, Scots, Tony Kearney, TV Drama
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Nadine Lee
Lord Sempill to Attend Stone Mountain Games
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Lord Sempill will be attending the 2013 Stone Mountain Games Every year during the third week of October, you'd be forgiven for thinking a little piece of Atlanta was in fact a little piece of Scot...
Topics: merican Scottish Foundation, Ancestral Tourism, Atlanta, Clan Elliot, Clan Rose, COSCA, David Rose, Gathering 2009, Georgia, Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, Lord Sempill, Macdonald & Rees, Margaret Elliot, Scottish Heritage USA, Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, Stone Mountain Highland Games, United States
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Nadine Lee
Our Vote for Scotland's National Tree
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Canada has the instantly recognisable maple tree, Japan has the whimsical cherry blossom, and England has the mighty royal oak. However Scotland seems to have missed the proverbial national-tree boat,...
Topics: Gaelic Heritage, MacLachlan, Malcolm, Scottish Clans, Scottish Nature, Urquhart
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Nadine Lee
Photographs Reveal Croft Memories
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3:44am, Isle of Harris (John Maher) A new photographic exhibition is set to open that shines a light on abandoned crofts throughout the Western Isles of Scotland. Entitled Leaving Home: An Alternat...
Topics: boarded out children, croft, emmigration, Eriskay, Exhibition, hebrides, Homes, Ian Peterson, John Maher, Lewis, Photography, Stornoway, western isles
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Nadine Lee
Government Announces Clan Event Fund
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The Clans and Families of Scotland The Scottish Government announced on Wednesday that it is to provide funding for clan events to the tune of £200,000 in 2014 and beyond. The move cements the rela...
Topics: 2014 Year of Homecoming, Clan Gatherings, Earl of Cromartie, Fergus Ewing, Highland Clan Partnership, John Mackenzie, Malcolm Macgregor, Scottish Clan Event Fund, Scottish Government, Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs
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Nadine Lee
All Roads Lead Back to Barra – An Interview with The Ma...
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The flag of the MacNeil flies at Kisimul Castle, Barra. On the Isle of Barra in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, you'll come across the surname Macneil an awful lot. Home to Clan Macneil of Barra, the li...
Topics: barra, Castlebay, clan chief, historic scotland, Kisimul Castle, MacNeil of Barra, Outer Hebrides, The MacNeil, western isles
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Nadine Lee
Griogal Cridhe - Beloved Gregor
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On a Wednesday evening in Edinburgh, direct your ears upwards while wandering up Victoria Street from the Grassmarket and you might just hear a bit of Gaelic tune floating out onto the street below....
Topics: Balloch Castle, breadalbane, Clan Campbell, edinburgh, Edinburgh Gaelic Choir, Execution, Gaelic Clan MacGregor, Gregor Ruadh Red MacGregor of Glenstrae, Grey Colin, Griogal Cridhe, Lament, Marion Campbell, Mary Queen of Scots, Sir Colin Campbell, Taymouth Castle
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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
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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