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1. Using the Celtic Tongue To Build a Strong Economy - Scotland Partners With Gaelic Nova Scotia

   ... Scotia's Office of Gaelic Affairs has invited Roddy MacLean, Scotland's Gaelic Language Ambassador 2012-2013, to give his advice on how to ... language that gives us a special and unique understanding of Scotland and use that to present the country to visitors and allow them to ...

   Emmett McIntyre - May 26 2014 - 9:23am - 0 comments

2. Archaeologists Find The Earliest Dated Evidence Of Human Activity In Scotland

   ... coastline of the Scottish island of Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Ìle, Na h-Eileanan a-staigh, Alba), ... years, the earliest dated evidence of human activity in Scotland. Since pigs first uprooted the items in 2009 trial excavations took ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Oct 10 2015 - 1:51pm - 0 comments

3. Buccleuch land buyout by community in southern Scotland receives boost

   ... Douglas MacQueen's blog Buccleuch, one of Scotland's biggest landowners, has been seeking to sell land in southern Scotland for some time. Now two bids to take moorland  into community ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Jun 15 2020 - 4:53pm

4. Scotland - Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword and shield on display at Perth

   ... and the Jacobites exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The targe, is an elaborately decorated small shield with ... as Bonnie Prince Charlie was the grandson of James VII of Scotland and had led the second Jacobite Uprising of 1745 to overthrow King ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Nov 5 2016 - 12:53pm - 0 comments

5. Scotland: Major new oil discovery found off Shetland

   ... Paul Wheelhouse, Scottish National Party MSP for South Scotland, and Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy has welcomed the news and that this along with other finds, demonstrated Scotland's oil and gas industry has a bright future, for decades to come. ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Mar 28 2017 - 10:42am

6. New guide to TV set in Scotland dedicated to John Logie Baird

   ... television programmes which have either been filmed in Scotland or have Scottish links. It coincides with the 130th anniversary of the ... charge in attractions and VisitScotland iCentres throughout Scotland and contains details of more than 60 television programmes.  ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Aug 29 2018 - 12:55pm

7. A 150 year old bottle of beer returned to Scotland from ship sunk in sea of booze

   ... Light of Age off the coast of Australia has been returned to Scotland. Diver Jim Anderson found it on a shipwreck in the 1970s. It is thought to be the oldest bottle of beer in Scotland. The bottle was on board the Light of Age which sank near Melbourne on ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Nov 16 2018 - 10:59am

8. Halloween Poem by Scotland’s Robert Burns

   Halloween in Scotland has its roots in Celtic pagan tradition. This old Celtic New Year ... the dead roam the countryside. The poem below was written by Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns (25 January 1759-21 July 1796) Upon ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Jun 7 2020 - 7:34pm

9. Celtic Nations of Scotland and Wales in European Football Championship

   ... teams that have qualified for the tournament are Wales and Scotland. There are twenty-four teams now battling through the group stages of ... on Saturday (12th June) with a 1-1 draw with Switzerland. Scotland play their first match against the Czech Republic this afternoon (14th ...

   Alastair Kneale - Jun 14 2021 - 12:44pm

10. Census Result Reveals Majority of Scotland’s People Say We Are ‘Scottish Only’ and Reject British Identity

    ... Figures now released from the 2011 Census of Scotland have shown that a majority of the people of Scotland see themselves as Scottish only and not British. Responding to a ...

    Douglas MacQueen - Sep 26 2013 - 9:20pm - 0 comments

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