I know what you mean Allan and the feud has almost disappeared, but only because the culture of the Gael is in terminal decline.
I remember the old Gaelic culture in Argyll, or what was left of it, there was a nobility of spirit and pride in their heritage about even the poorest of these people that was never in the city dwellers or Lowland Scots

These words always summed it up for me.


High & Low by James H. Cousins


"He stumbled home from Clifden fair
With drunken song, and cheeks aglow.
Yet there was "something" in his air
That spoke of "kingship" long ago.
I sighed — and inly cried
With grief that one so high should fall so low.

He snatched a flower and sniffed its scent,
And waved it t'ward the sunset sky.
Some old sweet rapture through him went
And kindled in his bloodshot eye.
I turned — and inly burned
With joy that one so low should rise so high."