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Thread #109770 Message #2298580
Posted By: andymac
27-Mar-08 - 05:27 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs about Culloden
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about Culloden
Thanks for the comments and suggestions everyone. I'll pass these suggestions on and she'll have a trawl through it and report back to me no doubt. Dianne, I too got a lot of my Scots history from Prebble and an awful lot from our songs too.
Sandy, I couldn't agree more with your comment re. Charles Edward Stuart. To most, if not all of, the ruling class of their day the ordinary people were expendable (Had to recheck to make sure I hadn't typed expandable..LOL) and the tragedy was that the clanspeople hadn't realised that a longstanding bond had been severed by their chieftains. I don't think too many people would argue that economic and social change would have occurred in the Highlands anyway. It's just that the Jacobite rebellions allowed an excuse for a far more brutal transformation.
But I don't want to rant over this, I've done that before and doubtless will do so again. Thanks again my fellow Mudcatters for all your help.