Monthly Archives: December 2013

Oul Lang Syne

Granny Isabella Sloan was born in Conlig, County Down, Ireland, at the end of the nineteenth century, when they still spoke Scotch in our village, of which we are extremely proud. She went to Scotland during the Great War to work in … Continue reading

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Lang may yer lum reek

A Blythe Yule an a Guid New Yeir tae yin an aa…Lang may yer lum reek wi ither fowk’s coal (Ulster-Scots)… A Happy Christmas and a Good New Year to one and all…Long may your chimney smoke with other people’s … Continue reading

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Lord Mayor’s Christmas Message

NewBelfast.com Blog of Belfast’s Lord Mayor, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir Follow Máirtín on Twitter and LinkedIn    Ba mhaith liom Nollaig mhór mhaith a ghuí oraibh uilig agus bliain úr faoi mhaise.  Wishing all Friends of Belfast a Happy Christmas and a … Continue reading

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Prime Minister David Cameron & Taoiseach Enda Kenny Great War visit to Belgium

On the invitation of the British and Irish Governments I was honoured, as Chairman of the Somme Association, to attend this visit to the Island of Ireland Peace Park in Mesen (Messines) and the Menin Gate in Ieper (Ypres). PRIME MINISTER DAVID … Continue reading

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The Pictish Nation: 24 – Chapter 8 (Concluded)

S. Llolan, another Briton who laboured in the Forth area, is represented by the Scotic Churchmen of the fourteenth century as ‘a nephew’ of the unhistorical Servanus. He certainly took up the work of the historical Servanus or Serf, and … Continue reading

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The Pictish Nation: 23 – Chapter 8 (Cont’d)

S. DEWI (David) of Mynyvt (St. David’s), now patron saint of the Welsh, was also associated with the Church of Northern Alba. The competition for primacy which raged in the Roman Catholic period between Caerleon, St. David’s, and Llandaff has left … Continue reading

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The Pictish Nation:22 – Chapter 8 (Cont’d)

S. GiLDAS, the Briton, was born in A.D.516, as he himself informs us ‘in the year of the battle of Badon,’ at Dunbarton, the capital of Lennox, when the city was still the capital of the Britons of Clyde and … Continue reading

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The Pictish Nation:21 – Chapter 8 (Cont’d)

S. Cadoc, who also laboured in the Brito-Pictish borderland, was a Briton; and he falls into direct succession to S. Ninian, S. Caranoc the Great, Paul Hén, the historic S. Servanus, and S. Drostan. Only a few historical facts about … Continue reading

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20th anniversary of the Downing Street Declaration

Former British prime minister John Major has hailed the document he agreed with Albert Reynolds in 1993 which prepared the ground for the IRA ceasefire the following year and cemented a new, closer relationship between London and Dublin. Speaking in Iveagh House, Dublin … Continue reading

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The Pictish Nation:20 – Chapter 8 (Cont’d)

Another legend, the Legend of Fergusianus, gives the credit of the missionary work of S. Fergus of Buchan and Caithness to a certain romanized Celt of late date bearing the same name. The object of this fabulist was evidently to … Continue reading

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