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Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - Frustrated with Gaelic 11 Celtic history Break - Wizard of Gordonstoune Everyday Celtic ways - the caber toss Celtic music by - Robin Laing, Capercaillie, Reely Jiggered, Tidelines, and Rachel Sermanni.

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Stories about Amazing grace, Scottish slavery in America, Revolutionary war songs, and the Scottish influence on the American Revolutionary war.

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - Frustrated with Gaelic part 10 Celtic history Break - Scots role in the American Civil war Everyday Celtic ways - The Sheaf Toss Celtic music by - The two of Us, Kathleen MacInnes, Capercaille, and Mary Black

Classical Celtic literature reading by Ye Olde Scot the Celtic culture channel The Celtic Twilight by William B. Yeats

Relaxing Scottish highlands presented by Ye Olde Scot the Celtic culture channel, prepare to have your stress relieved...

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - Frustrated with Gaelic pt9 Celtic history Break - The Elixir of Life Everyday Celtic ways - SHG The 56lb weight for height. Celtic music by - Alison Helzer, Karan Casey, and The Corries.

Soothing, relaxing, and calm Celtic instrumental music to calm the Celtic beast within. Great to sleep by, just put on loop and get those ZZZZ's Thanks from Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel.

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Celtic badass - This week on Celtic badass we celebrate the badassery of a man who wouldn't even let a little thing like having his head cut off, stop him from vanquishing his enemy. And why wouldn't he! the bastard cheated, lets's not get ahead of ourselves...In and around the year 892, Sigurd Eysteinsson, AKA Sigurd the Mighty was a Viking Earl who ruled the Orkney and Shetland Islands off the northern coast of Scotland. Allied with other Vikings chieftains, he launched an invasion of the Scottish mainland which conquered northern Scotland, overran Sutherland and Caithness, and asserted Viking control as far south as Moray. Now, remember, Scotland, or the land of the Scots as it was called then, was a fledgling country, but it was ruled by those that fought the Viking's head-on, balls to the wall, and so on...

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - frustrated with Gaelic pt8 Celtic history Break - Floating head of Killiecrankie Everyday Celtic ways - Scottish Games - the weight for distance Celtic music by - Selkie girls, Merry ploughboys, breabach, and Capercaillie

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - FRustrated with Gaelic pt.7 Celtic history Break - Wierd Scotland - 48 days adrift Everyday Celtic ways - Highland games - Stone put Celtic music by - Brigham Phillips and 4 from Kathleen Macinnes

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - Frustrated with Gaelic pt6 Celtic history Break - History of Clan Donald Everyday Celtic ways - Highland games - The Scottish Hammer Celtic music by - Runrig, Clannad, Julie Fowlis, Ella Roberts, and Anna MacDonald

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Dark Celtic history - the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. by Jeff Mcdonald 1970s Ireland, Catholic priests were still telling girls not to wear mini-skirts in public, as though they were a biblical harlot about to be cast out and stoned. You know the scene. Two school lads are out playing in a field in Ireland in the mid-1970s when they find a big stone, being mischievous boys they work harder than they ever have to lift the stone, only to discover it covered a hole that they were all too eager to climb in, despite the danger. Stephen King's stories start this way, with two innocents uncovering something horrifying. But this wasn't fiction, this wasn't some made-up story on the supermarket shelves, it was Tuam, County Galway in 1975, and the hundreds of little skeletons the two boys found in a disused sewage tank were all too real. The Catholic church held incredible influence over Ireland at this time, and the fact that 796 babies' remains were just found at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, ruun by the church had little impact. The clerical word was the last word and people fell into line, and the atrocities the church committed were lost to time. That explains why you could uncover a grave of almost 800 dead infants in a disused sewage tank in the 1970s and yet a great silence would descend and cover it all up. The pope was infallible, then so were the Church and all of its agents. There was nothing to see here. You can go on about your business. Move along. So people moved along and they kept on moving, but time brings change, and change opens minds that are thought to be nailed shut, and thrown down a well. The Catholic church was not interested in having this discussion, and so a huge silence descended upon Ireland again. People often vanished into that huge silence I discovered, all kinds of people, people who didn't fit the story that the country was telling about itself. Unmarried mothers, their children born out of wedlock, the children of the poor and the addicted, the mentally ill, the disabled.

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Celtic badass - Bernadette Devlin by Jeff McDonald This awesome civil rights leader, activist, and politician from Northern Ireland embodies the term Celtic badass. Bernadette Devlin looks innocent but that's where the innocents stop. At age 21, Devlin was the youngest woman ever elected to British Parliament in 1969, and perhaps the most self-assertive, too. She helped to form the student civil rights campaigning movement, People’s Democracy, as well as the Irish Republican Socialist Party. She has been an unstoppable, unmoveable, unflappable voice of advocacy for women and minorities across Ireland.

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - Frustrated with Gaelic part 5 the kitchen Celtic history Break - History of Clan Donald - the Gaelic revival Everyday Celtic ways - Did Mary Queen of Scots kill her husband? Celtic music by - Julie Fowlis, Manran, Karen Matheson, Iona Fyfe, and Rachel Newton

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. by Jeff McDonald Dark Celtic history - The remains of the Castle stand in the historic market town of Strathaven, South Lanarkshire about around 6 miles (10 km) from the larger town of Hamilton. The remains of the present structure, built around 1458, sit on a rocky outcrop on the banks of the Powmillon Burn. It is constructed on the site of earlier castles and has a long, turbulent, and often dark history. Once it was held by the Douglases, and then by the Stewarts and then the Hamiltons. It finally fell into ruin in the 18th century. For many hundreds of years, there have been sightings of a ghostly figure roaming the castle and its surroundings. Known as the "White Lady of Strathaven Castle" the spirit is still said to haunt the building. Local legend told of a wife of a past laird who having upset her husband was walled up in a small niche and left to starve. This story was passed down through the generations with tales that this lady was the ghost who haunted the castle. Many doubted the whole legend of the woman entombed in the walls of Strathaven Castle and dismissed the accounts of those that had seen the ghost as nonsense. Or at least that was the case until during the 19th century, part of a wall fell down and human bones were discovered within.

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Celtic badass -Calgacus lived from - very roughly - AD50 to AD100,. He was the leader of the Caledonians who fought against the Romans at the Battle of Mons Graupius in AD84. Calgacus appears as an important character in the biography of the Roman Governor of Britain, Julius Agricola, De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, written by his son-in-law, Tacitus, in AD98. Nothing else is known about him from any other source, and there has to be some question about whether he actually existed at all. But if he didn't then someone like him probably did. His name means "the swordsman". And he was a real pain in the Roman's ass. The Roman conquest of Britain was a process that began with Julius Ceasar's invasion in 56bc, then was completed in AD 43 under Emperor Claudius. However it wasn't easy, a decisive battle ending the Boudican Rebellion took place in Roman Britain in AD 60 or 61, and pitted an alliance of British Celtic peoples led by Boudica against a Roman army led by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus. Although heavily outnumbered, the Romans decisively defeated the allied tribes, inflicting heavy losses on them and crushing the indigenous peoples of Britain leading to the invasion of Southern Britain being largely completed by early 80ad

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - Frustrated with gaelic pt4 Celtic history Break - Brief history of Clan Donald pt2 Everyday Celtic ways - Politics and Intrigue - the rough wooing Celtic music by - Maeve MacKinnon, Dougie Maclean, Selkie girls, Gaelic Storm, and Karen Matheson

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Celtic badass - María Mayor Fernández de Cámara y Pita (1565–1643), known as María Pita, was the heroine who defended Coruña, Galicia in northern Spain, against the English Armada attack, an English attack upon the Spanish mainland in 1589

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - part 3 Celtic history Break - History of Clan Donald pt1. Dalraida Everyday Celtic ways - Black dinner 1440 Celtic music by - Julie Fowlis, Anne Martin, Manran

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - frustrated with Gaelic 2 Celtic history Break - Gallowglas mercenaries Everyday Celtic ways - the boy and the piskie Celtic music by - Mary jane Lomond, Iona fyfe, Coriina Hewat, Breabach, and Selkie girls

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. by Jeff McDonald Dark Celtic history - Murder! Massacre! Betrayal! Treason! Glencoe is one of the most spectacular areas of unspoiled wilderness in Scotland. There is a haunting quality about the moor-clad mountains that stand as sentinels over the eight-mile-long glen which runs from east to west along the northern border of Argyll. And there are those who say that the glen is haunted, for this is the ‘Glen of Weeping’, the site of one of the greatest atrocities in Scottish history. Even at the best of times, Scotland has a grim and dark history. Murder has always been considered the foulest of crimes in Scots Law. But in the Highlands with its strict code of hospitality, there is a more heinous crime. It is called ‘Murder under Trust’. That is why the massacre of Glencoe has reverberated so strongly through the ages, Those MacDonalds had taken in the regiment of British Soldiers, mostly Clan Campbell, and given them shelter, food, and friendship. and this is why the spirits of the slain MacDonald clansmen are said to return to the ‘Glen of Weeping’ from time to time, but especially every year on the anniversary of that fateful day, 13th February 1692.

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Celtic badass - One of the most badass and romantic characters in Scottish history is Flora MacDonald. She is famous for helping Bonnie Prince Charlie escape from Scotland after the defeat of the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The grandson of James II of England, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, or Bonnie Prince Charlie as he was affectionately known, had led the second Jacobite Uprising of 1745 to overthrow King George II, and failed, sending many a Scot to their grave, while he scurried off to the safety of a bottle in France. The part that Flora played in the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie ‘over the sea to Skye’ is immortalized in the ‘Skye Boat Song’, published in 1884:

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - Frustrated-with-Gaelic Celtic history Break - Declaration-of-Arbroath Everyday Celtic ways - Tartan-day-celebration Celtic music by -Julie-Fowlis,Jamie-McGeechan,Chris-Andreucci,Anna-Murray

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, Interesting Gaidhlig language lessons, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. Feuchamaich Beagan Gaidhlig - Lesson 25 likes and dislikes Celtic history Break - Assassination of James I of Scotland Everyday Celtic ways - Welsh lady of the lake Celtic music by - Julie Fowlis, Gaelic Storm, Rachel Walker, Karen Matheson, James Graham

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