The tourist industry in Scotland is apparently rife with nonsense when it comes to the place of Gaels in Scottish history. Luckily, there’s a growing effort to set the record straight on many inaccuracies to reflect a much truer version of events narrated by tour guides and the like.
If you ever found yourself in one of the many tour buses of the Highlands in the past 15 years, some of the examples in this article may sound familiar.
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Has Scotland betrayed its Gaelic heritage? | Herald Scotland
Even Jon Snow was at it. Channel Four news had come up to the Highlands before the general election to examine the SNP surge in the north. As part of his package, the estimable broadcaster went to Culloden, which he described as, “The scene, 270 years ago, of the last great battle between the …
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This is terribly sad.
I know it's like the Highland clearances never stopped