... credited with the main role in the conversion of Scotland to Christianity when, in around 563, he and his twelve companions went to Scotland then settling in Iona, an island in the Inner Hebrides. It is the site ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jun 5 2017 - 1:15pm
... of Cairnholy , in Dumfries and Galloway in South-west Scotland. Both tombs built to honour the ancestors of the Neolithic farming ... Corbred II surnamed Galdus and described in The History of Scotland by George Buchanan (1506 - 1582) which records that he began his reign ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jul 3 2017 - 10:19am
... National (note I didn’t say nationalist) renaissance in Scotland is the manner in which news is now disseminated. Faith in and the ... low. No one, even some Unionists, now rate the BBC in Scotland and paradoxically it is only the SNP holding back from an all time ...
Myghal Map Serpren - May 16 2015 - 11:02pm - 0 comments
... with England, a union that has resulted in the domination of Scotland by its larger neighbour. A series of opinion polls, conducted months ... There is now clear and a widely felt unhappiness in Scotland with the clear failings of the undemocratic nature of the United ...
Douglas MacQueen - Aug 21 2020 - 2:47pm
... built a model of Dùn Deardail Celtic Iron Age hillfort in Scotland. It was commissioned by the Fort William-based Nevis Landscape ... in order that could be then re-assembled Glen Nevis Visitor Centre.over the course of four hours. Standing on a rocky knoll on Sgorr ...
Douglas MacQueen - Sep 7 2018 - 10:46am
... Mannin IM2 1QB The Stable Building, The University Centre, Old Castletown Road, Douglas, Isle of Man IM2 1QB ...
Alastair Kneale - Apr 4 2016 - 9:19pm - 0 comments
... if the drum beat is the force of the resistance which saved Scotland from Roman occupation and preserved Celtic culture north of ... The band are based in Glasgow and all members were born in Scotland. Taking a break from their gruelling North America travel schedule the ...
Emmett McIntyre - Aug 12 2015 - 8:58pm
... of the Exchequer George Osborne’s recent ‘Day Trip’ to Scotland in a crude attempt to bully Scottish voters to vote against ... has to leave the EU. Of course Barossa belongs to the centre-right European Peoples Party, which also has in its fold the Spanish ...
Douglas MacQueen - Feb 18 2014 - 9:12pm - 0 comments
... Golf Course. It is near the town of Maybole in Ayrshire, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic:Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, Alba). The origins of the ... Turnberry Castle has an association with King Robert I of Scotland (Robert the Bruce) who was known to have spent time there when young ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Jun 4 2021 - 2:17am
... today to acknowledge the existence of the north of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, but even though this description is a vast ... ‘four home nations’ in an motion he was proposing about Scotland’s right to stay in the European Union, even if England chooses to ...
Myghal Map Serpren - Nov 25 2014 - 1:20pm - 0 comments