Author Archives: Ian Adamson

I would like to thank Bruce Bock for informing us that the last Lakota code talker Clarence Wolf Guts has died at 86. When the towers of the World Trade Center fell on Sept. 11, 2001, Clarence Wolf Guts asked … Continue reading →

HOW THE PICTS LIVED A STORY used to be current at a southern university of a student, fresh from the works of a certain historian, who declared that Pictland of Alba was a ‘ land of lakes and shallow estuaries … Continue reading →

The Viking invasions laid the Pictish colleges of Ireland and Scotland in ashes. Pictish libraries were burned.or their contents were scattered and mostly lost. The scholars who escaped massacre fled to the Continent, some of them to the Pictish communities … Continue reading →

THE LITERATURE OF THE  PICTS   ‘No scrap of Pictish literature ever existed.’ Such was the ill-founded decision of an accepted Scottish historian. Yet in the Irish Nennius reference is made to the Books of the Picts, ‘ As it … Continue reading →

The Soldier  In Holywood,  in County Down Close to the heart of this little town, On granite plinth a soldier stands, Symbol of all who died for us In Ulster’s fields or far off lands. Bayonet and rifle still in … Continue reading →

1.       National Broadcast – RTE 2.       International Broadcast (BBC 1 and BBC Newsline UK) 3.       4 Irish Independent –  National Print and Online – Ireland’s largest selling print paper on Online site 4.       1 Irish Times 5.       2 other print  … Continue reading →

Unionist Centenary Committee in partnership with Glasnevin Trust   Annual Armistice Day Commemorations Monday, November 11th 2013  at Glasnevin Cemetery  commencing at 1.30pm with the launch of the exhibition by Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht “Third Home … Continue reading →

Disert is from the Latin deserta, waste-places; but the meaning was enlarged. There is a recorded Church of S. Ninian at ‘Disert’ in Moray, believed  to be at Dyke. The place is no longer known by its first name. Disert, originally, … Continue reading →

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Beyond what has been stated, some ancient names in our present-day speech witness to the to the differences between Gaidhealic and Pictish; and show the Brittonic (Old British) character of the latter tongue. For example, the name of S. Maelrubha … Continue reading →