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The Guild Review is a blog of art, culture, faith and politics. We seek understanding, not conformity.

Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland. Show all posts
Saturday, December 31, 2016

What Does Auld Lang Syne Mean?

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Most Americans know at least the opening line of Robert Burn's poem "Auld Lang Syne," set to a Scottish folk tune which is at ...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Toward a Theory of American Heraldry

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Readers of this blog will know that I am a strong proponent of heraldry, having proposed heraldic arms for the City of Charlottesville  (s...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

State Tartans

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I've written before about issues of heritage, suggesting that our cuisine embodies our jumbled backgrounds   as Americans , and arguin...
Monday, February 8, 2010

Music from the Empire

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The other evening, after a lecture by the Chief of the Defense Staff of the Canadian Forces, I was working on a book review about Ireland f...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Of Scotland and Its Heritage

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I was recently reading about Alasdair Mac Colla (c. 1610–1647) a Scotch-Irish solider from Clan Donald. One of the largest clans in Scotla...
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