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One of the experiences that stood out the most on my Highland adventure a few months back was the amount of Scottish Gaelic I encountered. From road and railway station signs, to the greeting display...

Topics: Gaelic, Gaelic in Schools, Gaelic Song, Gillie Mackenzie, Gleanna Gollaidh, isle of Lewis, Mackay, Poetry, Robert Donn, Waulking, Waulking Songs

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An Ode to Scotland - Meeting a Modern-Day Scots Poet

by Nadine Lee

Intertwined and impenetrably linked to Scottish culture, poetry has a long and distinguished history in Scotland. And it's a history that's continuing to this day – Edinburgh was recently named the wo...

Topics: edinburgh, Harry Giles, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norse, Orkney, Poetry, Scots, Scots Renaissance, Scottish identity, Vikings

Poem Marks Bannockburn Anniversary

by Nadine Lee

Rotunda Monument at the Bannockburn Battleground A new poem has been unveiled to mark the upcoming 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. The specially commissioned poem appears on a new t...

Topics: Bannockburn, Bannockburn Live 2014, Poetry, Robert the Bruce, Rotunda Monument

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Topic: Poetry