Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Mac-Alasdair Clan
Author: The Clans of the Scottish Highlands
Author: James LoganThe Clans of the Scottish Highlands
Author: Mac IanHighland Warrior
Author: David StevensonPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 9781780271941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A compelling and dramatic sweep through some of the most eventful years in Scottish history, told in a text both authoritative and highly readable. In 1644 James Grahame, Marquis of Montrose, stormed his way into legend with a series of astonishing victories over the Covenanters. At his side stalked a shadowy but terrible ally - Alasdair MacColla, who had a far more ancient agenda of his own. MacColla's aim was nothing less than the effective destruction of the power of Clan Campbell and its replacement by the older overlordship of the Macdonalds. MacColla was the first - and perhaps the last - great Celtic general of modern times, who lived at a dynamic time which saw the increasingly forgotten and marginalised Gaelic speaking peoples of Scotland and Ireland nearly succeed in regaining control of their lands and destiny. The author argues that it was in fact MacColla and not Montrose who was the true architect of the 'Year of Victories', and that without his Highland ally, Montrose's blunders would have doomed him to disaster, thus presenting a compelling and radical reappraisal of Scottish history during the crucial years of the 1640s. As MacColla's actions were unwittingly to lead his people and culture to ruin, so his own career ended in chaos when, despite leading his own troops in a victorious charge, an incompetent general led him to defeat and death at Knocknanuss in Ireland.
The Clan Donald
Author: Angus MacdonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The Clans of the Scottish Highland
Author: James LoganThe Highland Clan MacNeacail (MacNicol)
Author: David SellarPublisher: MacLean Press
ISBN: 9781899272020
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A History of Clan Campbell
Author: Alastair CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The clan Gillean
Author: Alexander Maclean SinclairPublisher: Alexander Maclean Sinclair
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The clan Gillean
No Great Mischief
Author: Alistair MacLeodPublisher: Emblem Editions
ISBN: 1551995476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.