Trinity Public Affairs and Communications RE: Seán Duffy, Professor of Medieval History Dear Paul, That is fine if you would please credit Trinity College Dublin as well as the author, thanks for your interest.Best regards, Katie Crowning of Ireland’s Last, Scottish High King By kind permission - Seán Duffy, Professor of Medieval History and [...]
Burns Night is annually celebrated in Scotland (and the world) on January 25th. It commemorates the life of the bard (poet) Robert Burns, who was born on January 25, 1759. Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet and [...]
It started in Perth as I picked up the truck from Linzi, I was headed to the Promised Land; Oban. As usual over the past few Christmas’, I collected my 4x4 truck and headed west, like an old salmon, heading back to my birthplace, Connel - that wonderful place on the Scottish west coast. [...]
Their story; three Stornoway locals (Innes, Uilly and Boydie) met in a house to have the craic one Saturday night, playing music with just the dog and cat watching. After a few tunes getting thrown across the room Boydie stated muttering a few sentences. As he is a man of few words, attention wasn't [...]
Smoo Cave has to be included in any stay in north west Scotland. Set into limestone cliffs, Smoo Cave is large - 200 feet long, 130 feet wide, and 50 feet high at the entrance. There are steps leading down to the cave that can be accessed all year. Smoo has a deep sink [...]
Robert Louis Stevenson, a famous Scotsman Robert Lewis (later: “Louis”) Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on 13 November 1850. His father Thomas, belonged to a family of engineers who had built many of the deep sea lighthouses around the rocky coast of Scotland. His mother, Margaret Isabella Balfour, came from a family of [...]
Angus Og MacDonald, was a fourteenth century Scottish chief of Clann Domhnaill. He was a younger son of Aonghus Mór mac Domhnaill, Lord of Islay. After the latter's death, the chiefship of the kindred was assumed by Aonghus Óg's elder brother, Alasdair Óg Mac Domhnaill. Most documentation regarding Aonghus’ career concerns his support of [...]
The parish church is on an earlier Christian site, dedicated to Coeddi, Bishop of Iona (died 712), founded about 700 AD from Iona. Preserved in an alcove in the church is an early hand bell in Irish style (iron with bronze coating), dating from the 7th or 8th century, one of several to have [...]
Ballachulish (at the end of Glencoe) perched on the edge of Loch Leven is a monument. It was here in 1752 that a local man was hanged for a murder he didn’t commit. The man’s name was James Stewart of the Glen. Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, Kidnapped fictionalises the Appin Murder with a cast of [...]
More Oban info, I cannee help it! Oban has been used by humans since at least mesolithic times, as evidenced by archaeological remains of cave dwellers found in the town. Just outside the town stands Dunollie Castle, overlooking the main entrance to the bay, it has been fortified since the Bronze age. Prior to the [...]
