Posts Tagged ‘Scotsman’
Celtic Lightning strikes: ‘engaging, readable, entertaining, overdue’
Reviews turn up in Toronto, Glasgow, Winnipeg, & Victoria . . . The Globe and Mail: “Celtic Lightning is engagingly personal. We follow McGoogan and his wife as they travel enthusiastically throughout Scotland and Ireland, from Grace O’Malley’s Connemara and Jonathan Swift’s Dublin to the Dumfries of Robert Burns, and even to the St. Andrews…
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Scottish Explorer John Rae ‘should be honoured’ By SHAN ROSS The Scotsman Published on Saturday 20 April 2013 A CANADIAN historian is calling on the Scottish Government to commemorate controversial Arctic explorer John Rae by erecting a statue of him in Edinburgh’s St Giles Cathedral. Award-winning Ken McGoogan, who will give a talk on Orkney-born…
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