Irish Bagpipes (Brian Boru pipe) The bagpipes have been a huge part of Irish music for many years. Today the bagpipe is synonymous with Scotland, but the pipes really came from Ireland. The earliest bag pipes date back to 4000 B.C. in the Middle East, where a bagpipe is found in Chaldean sculptures. This evidence shows it is ancient, certainly as old as the harp and nearly as old as the drum. Greeks, Egyptians and Romans all marched to the sound of the pipes to battle. As for Ireland, a seventh-century
of globalisation seems to threat the nations, homogenising their cultures and erasing individual characteristics. In that sense, the case of Scotland is rather peculiar one. Firstly, Scotland is part of Britain. Secondly, Britain is part of the European Union. Finally, Scotland is part of the globalizing community. This underpins the complex situation Scotland is put in, trying to maintain its national identity in the context of British, European and global influences. Consequently, complicating the
nation was a heavy burden on finance let alone two. Charles also exploited existing methods of generating income, especially those available to him through royal prerogative; he reinstated a law from 1278 that required all those with an income of £40 or over every annum to present themselves at the King's coronation and join the King's royal army as a night, although this in itself did not generate any money, instead Charles imposed a fine on anyone who didn't attend his coronation in 1626.
guests in hotels, motels and taverns. There are some less common places which mention ghosts but the one thing that you most likely have never heard about is a ghost haunting a modern apartment or condominium. One of the most haunted locations in Scotland is Edinburgh Castle and the city of Edinburgh has been called the most haunted city in all of Europe. The Castle Perched atop of Castle Rock, an extinct volcano, Edinburgh Castle is well protected to the north, south and west by ragged cliffs that
“clocks had been turned back to before the Civil War.”: The English Civil War was different then the ones in Scotland or Ireland since there were no major long-term effects. It is believed that this is because the Civil War in England was simply a product of short-term events as well as miscalculations from the king, and not because of long-term effects building up like those in Ireland and Scotland. Although the English Civil War disrupted the entire society of England while it took place, England and
DR. ROBERT ANDERSON Proposed as a suspect by Stephen Knight in the 1976 book – Jack the Ripper The Final Solution, and as a co-conspirator by Melvyn Fairclough in the 1991 book – The Ripper and the Royals. Dr. (later Sir) Robert Anderson was born in Mountjoy Square, Dublin, Ireland 29 May 1841. The son of Crown Solicitor, Matthew Anderson. Brought up in a devout Christian home. Educated privately in Dublin, Boulogne and Paris. On leaving school, Anderson began a business apprenticeship in a large
women, such as lack of strength, during this time. “ In their spare time rich women liked to hunt deer and hares with dogs” (“Lambert”). This activity was considered the suitable activity for women in the 16th century, but women that were born into a royal family, like Mary Tudor, chose a bolder way of life. The typical way of life for many women was Neeley 2 normal and socially accepted; they would clean the house or pickle vegetables to store. Although, Mary Tudor was determined to have a different
Only six months after Knox's First Blast had been published, the increment of this Protestant queen confronted John Knox with the imperative need to rectify his opinion on female rule. Elizabeth was not dazzled and when he returned from Geneva to Scotland in 1559, she would not allow him on English soil, leaving him to venture off into the more dangerous North Sea route to Lea. Rather than following the pattern everyone expected Elizabeth to, she chose to be different. Elizabeth chose to utilize her
The human race has a seemingly impossible challenge before them. While many focus on huge social issues such as terrorism and world hunger, which are completely valid and important issues, many have forgotten about the state of humanity’s neighbors within our very planet. Earth is in the midst of its sixth great extinction, keyed as the Holocene Extinction after the current epoch the planet is in. The Holocene Extinction, starting between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago, is the most recent since the Cretaceous-Tertiary
family. The Poes had settled in America some two or three generations prior to the birth of Edgar. Their line is distinctly traced back to Dring in the Parish of Kildallen, County Cavan, Ireland, and thence into the Parish of Fenwick in Ayrshire, Scotland. Hence they derived from Scotch-Irish stock, with what trace of the Celtic is doubtful. The first Poes came to America about 1739. The immediate paternal ancestors of the poet landed at Newcastle, Delaware, in 1748 or a little earlier. These were