One friend is a Highlander from #Glengarry and one grew up in #CapeBreton so they knew what that kind of storytelling was. The other two got carried into it, one of them protesting and asking why, all the way through, the foil in the storytelling, adding to the hilarity
#Scotland #ScottishDiaspora
”Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?”
Auld Lang Syne, poem by Robert Burns (1788) sung at #Hogmanay #ScottishDiaspora #OTD
A Highland Dance, by Scottish artist David Allan, c. 1780; watercolour on paper.
National Galleries of Scotland
🚢 Scottish Emigration (19th Century — collective voice)
“We go not because we wish to leave, but because we must hope.”
#ScottishDiaspora #EmigrationHistory #CapeBreton #CanadianGaelic #ThisDayInHistory
On This Day in History — December 14 🇨🇦 Canada & 🏴 Scotland
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Headlining the event is one of Africa's most widely published and celebrated authors, Ray Anyasi, alongside Ceitidh Campbell, Anton Floyd, Laura T. Fyfe, Michele Hodkn, Victoria MacIver, Spike Munro, and Babs NicGriogair.
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#ScottishDiaspora #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scots #ScotsLeid #LGBT
Thanks to everyone who tuned in for my talk, Left at The Wellgate: The Untold Story of Mary Petrie Smith. We had a fantastic turnout and some truly thoughtful questions. Huge thanks to the organizers and to the tech team for making it all run so smoothly. 🙏 😊
#womensdeparture #ScottishDiaspora
The site for Scottish FH societies is www.safhs.org.uk/members.php - and not all the member societies are based in Scotland! #ScottishDiaspora #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry
A middle aged women poses for a studio photograph, the image is in black and white. She sits on a chair with one arm casually resting on a small table in front of her. On the table is a periodical, open at a page, with the pages read turned back underneath the page that is ope. The women wears a black dress with a high necked white blouse beneath. There is a simple necklace around her neck. She has short white hair, held back by a clasp on the right side of her head as she looks at the camera. She looks directly at the camera.
In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth we'll be sharing women's stories from our archives throughout the month of March.
Jessie Mackay (1864-1938), poet, New Zealand
#WomensHistory #HighlandMuseums #ClanMackay #ScottishDiaspora #HerStory #MackayArchive
A military certificate with an image of two men in Scottish kilts with an Eagle motif, and the words "79th Regiment, Highland Guard,". The text certifies Alexander Taylor as a member of the 4th Company of the Regiment.
Scottish-themed Cert for Alexander Taylor of Linlithgow, West Lothian of the 79th New York "Highland Guard." He was KIA at the Battle of Secessionville, South Carolina in 1862, leaving behind a 7-year-old daughter in Scotland, and a widow and two step-children in New Jersey. #ScottishDiaspora.
🙏🏻 🌏🌎🌍Calling all with 🏴 Scottish ancestry worldwide
#ScottishDiaspora
#IndependentScotland
🌏🌎🌍Calling all with Scottish ancestry worldwide
#ScottishDiaspora
If u have Scottish Ancestry - 🙏🏻 also make a wee video on yr mobile saying reasons 4 supporting an Independent Scotland & post it
Use #IndependentScotland & #ScottishDiaspora
All 2 be compiled 4 international community 2 promote support 4 🏴
Pls encourage all to do the same & use ⬆️ hashtags 🙏🏻
GOODEVENING #scottishdiaspora If you are a scot abroad that beleives in Independence this please give this wee account a follow here on #bluesky It is the Scots abroad who are pro Indy that could make our voices heard internationaly to the locals who may no nothing about our struggle.
Ooooh wow! Can't wait to try these.... #scottishdiaspora
