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We took a trip to Edinburgh and up to Wallace Monument this week. This is somewhat for folk who drive electric vehicles and those interested in doing so.

Gaelic Names of Beasts has some poems for birds in Scots and Gàidhlig. I've transcribed a few here:

This is in relation to a video-conference conducted by UHI, which is linked below, there will also be a pdf of the chat as it happened.

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• Tha mi air bhioran airson an conference seo!

We took an impromptu trip to visit NTS Inverewe Gardens on the west coast.

I cannot recommend visiting there enough. We've visited a few times and every time the flora are magnificent. Depending on what time of year you'll see different plants in flower or fruit.

I couldn't help but take some photos to share with folk.

Tour up to Durness, down to Ullapool and back via Corrieshalloch; a photo blog.

Recently finished Lost Connections by Johann Hari.

After reading Chasing the Scream and it having such a changing effect on my views around drug use and reform I was looking forward to this book.

Poetry from the First and Second World Wars have few similarities to the poetry of earlier conflict, like Jacobite poetry, though they in places seem to be used as an homage or link to the poetry of earlier conflict. Far greater are the number of differences, most notably in tone, characterisation and style.

Introduction

The Jacobite Risings of 1680-1746 has provided many poems, perhaps one of the largest repositories of Scottish poetry. It comes in many languages too, which cover Scottish and Irish Gaelic, Scots, Scots English, French and English; so covers a multitude of cultures and views. Poetry, by nature, is emotive and driven by emotion which could be argued colour the poets accounts of events, especially large and tumultuous events throughout the 1715 and 1745 risings. I am going to explore the correlation of three poems of The Risings as recounted in poetry to what is known to have occurred via historical accounts.

A brief historical account seems necessary for perspective in the poems, before taking a look at them, so we can see where and how they diverge from the generally accepted view of the events. This should help provide a timeline of events and a baseline of what happened and where.