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The Ringing Stone
The Ringing Stone, a cup and mark stone, Tiree, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, 1892.
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The Darien Chest
The Darien Chest, used to store valuables and documents of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies’ venture in Central America, the colony of Caledonia, on the Gulf of Darién on the...
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Great and Singular Merits
The Cathach of St. Columba. Of a volume of a book in the Saint’s handwriting which could not be destroyed by water. I CANNOT think of leaving unnoticed another miracle which once took place by means of...
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In the Mansions of Bliss
Saint Columba, MS Rawlinson B. 514, 16th century. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, hear us. Christ,...
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Arms of the 6th Earl of Breadalbane
Arms of John Alexander Gavin Campbell, 6th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1824–1871), 1868 (Lyon Register, vol. 8, p. 13); Quarterly 1st & 4th gyronny of eight Or and Sable 2nd Argent a lymphad...
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Wipe Your Eyes, Your Love is Safe
Julie Fowlis. Feasgar ciùin an tùs a’ Chèitein Nuair bha ‘n ialtag anns na speuran Chualaim rìbhinn òg ‘s i deurach ‘Seinn fo sgàil nan geugan uain’ Bha a’ ghrian ‘sa chuan gu sìoladh ‘S reult cha d’...
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Fareweel Our Ancient Glory
Scottish association football supporter waives the Saltire in Trafalgar Square with Big Ben in the background. Fareweel to a’ our Scottish fame, Fareweel our ancient glory; Fareweel ev’n to the...
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The Gentle Birth of Colum, Our Cleric
Stained glass window in Iona Abbey depicting St. Columba. Kal. iv. A.D. 518 Battle of Detna, in Droma-Bregh, in which fell Ardgal, son of Conall Crimhthann, son of Niall. Muircertach Mac Earca, and...
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The Cat’s Back
Knockfarrel Hill or Drumchatt (Druimchat) or “the Cat’s Back”, a ridge to the southeast of Strathpeffer, Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland. Thereafter, some of the islanders and the Clandonald met...
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Collectio Canonum Hibernensis
Folio 15v of Codex 210 of the library of the Domkapitel of Cologne, an except of the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis, a systematic Latin collection of Continental canon law, scriptural and patristic...
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Little Wat Ye Wha’s Coming
The Gathering Stone, which tradition variously holds as the location of the Jacobite clans’ standard on the field at Sheriffmuir, or the spot where John Campbell, Duke of Argyll, and commander of the...
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All Affrighted and Adrad
Sound of Iona. Another time when Columcille was in lona, holy Baithin set out for that foresaid isle. Columcille warned him that in the middle of the night tofore a terrible beast had come into the...
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Killed Them A’ but Ane
Ruin of Esslemont Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Johnny arose on a May mornin’ Gone for water tae wash his hands He hae loused tae me his twa gray dogs That lie bound in iron bands When Johnny’s...
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A Pacific Temper and a Moderate Mind
William Forbes (1585–1634), first Protestant Bishop of Edinburgh. This posthumous work [Considerationes Modestae et Pacificae Controversiarum de Justificatione, Purgatorio, Invocatione Sanctorum...
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I Would Not Speak Falsehood
View from atop Dunadd, (Scottish Gaelic Dún Add, ‘fort on the [River] Add’), an Iron Age and later hillfort near Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, and believed to be the capital of the ancient...
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Dunadd in the Annals of Ulster
View of Dunadd, an Iron Age and later hillfort near Kilmartin in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, and believed to be the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata. The siege of Dún At and the siege of Dún...
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