Search Results: "Highland Clearances"
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Play For Today The Cheviot The Stag And The Black Black Oil
Added 1,862 Views / 0 LikesThe 7-84 Touring Theatre Company presents its live stage play to the people of South and North Uist, Benbecula and Lewis. The stage play is mixed with filmed reconstructions of documented events in the Highland Clearances, darkly humorous songs and sketch
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CLEARANCE ~ Hush Hush (Time To Be Sleeping)
Added 625 Views / 0 LikesIf you liked this then how about trying this one also : http://youtu.be/VzN8LHwIDd8 A ballad with words written by Scottish songwriter Jim McLean to the tune of The Mist Covered Mountains. A lullaby documenting a woman's grief and bewilderment at the High
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The Clearances Project - June Sawyers
Added 710 Views / 0 LikesThe Highland Clearances refers to the forcible eviction of the indigenous Gaelic-speaking people of the Scottish Highlands and Islands roughly between 1790 and 1855 to make way for more profitable sheep farms, and later, sporting estates. The blunt result
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Recreating A 19th Century Scottish Highland Township
Added 724 Views / 0 LikesCaen Highland Township c1813. Cean is located about a mile up the strath from the town of Helmsdale in Sutherland, north east Scotland. A joint project between ourselves and Timespan Museum and Arts Centre. The reconstruction shows a snapshot of life in t
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Lonbain Wester Ross Scottish Highlands Scotland
Added 756 Views / 0 LikesTour Scotland video of the deserted hamlet of Lonbain on ancestry visit to Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands. The Highland Clearances is a name given to the forced displacement of the population of the Scottish Highlands from their ancient ways of warrior c
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Alastair McDonald - Duke Of Sutherland
Added 719 Views / 0 LikesA wee film regarding the highland clearances.
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Bettyhill & Sutherland Coast, Scotland
Added 766 Views / 0 LikesBettyhill the place where the highland clearances museum is located, and is a chilling place to visit. The scenery in Bettyhill is magic but the history is sickening.
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The Selkirk Settlers; Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl Of Selkirk
Added 1,203 Views / 0 LikesIn the 18th century, Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, became the unexpected support for displaced families who were evicted from their homes in Scotland during the period known as "The Highland Clearances." Through his determination and their courag
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Ben Bhraggie And The Dog Walker
Added 681 Views / 0 LikesBen Bhraggie Sutherland Scotland. Locally known as the ' Mannie' The statue dominates the skyline above Golspie, Cromarty Firth and the family seat, Dunrobin Castle nearby. George Granville Leveson-Gower was the Marquess of Stafford and first Duke of Suth
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Ivan Drever - A Hundred Ships
Added 618 Views / 0 LikesA Hundred Ships taken from Ivan's recent CD, Bless The Wind. Ivan wrote this song many years ago when he lived in Easter Ross, in the Scottish Highlands. While there he heard many stories of people being thrown off their land to make way for sheep. The Hi
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Cape Breton
Added 664 Views / 0 LikesMy song, (c) 2012, about the Highland Clearances - The Highland Clearances (Scottish Gaelic: Fuadach nan Gàidheal, the expulsion of the Gael) was the forced displacement of a significant number of people in the Scottish Highlands during the 18th and 19th
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Ferry From The Isle Of Skye To Glenelg, Lochalsh, Highland Region, Scotland
Added 695 Views / 0 LikesThis is more like Over The Sea From Skye, as we were going from Skye to Glenelg, on the Scottish mainland. The Glenachulish is the last manually operated turntable ferry in Scotland and is said to be ideally suited for this crossing, although she is over
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