14 Sept 2022, 17:47 UTC≈1,100 views7 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Forwarded from @CelticEuropePhoto
On September 11, 1297 was fought the battle of Stirling Bridge. 🏴⚔️🏴 Scots led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray inflicted a spectacular defeat on the kingdom of England. Art by Angus McBride (RIP: 1931-2007).
England had just invaded Scotland the year previous on orders of king Edward I “Longshanks”, taking the Scottish king John de Balliol prisoner, but a rebellion was quickly raised by Wallace and M…
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14 Sept 2022, 17:46 UTC651 views6 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Forwarded from @CelticEuropePhoto
King Robert I the Bruce of Scotland faces Henry de Bohun in single combat before the Battle of Bannockburn, 23 June, 1314; art by Andrew Hillhouse.
On the eve of the crucial battle between Scotland and England, the young nephew of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, saw the Scottish king haranguing his troops and seemingly unprotected. He charged across the field hoping to score an easy win for England. Bruce waite…
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2 Sept 2022, 09:05 UTC556 views4 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Forwarded from @CelticEuropePhoto
Gold torc terminal with La Tène style decoration, found near Netherurd, in Peeblesshire, Scotland; 1st century B.C. or AD. 🏴
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29 Aug 2022, 08:41 UTC526 views1 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Forwarded from @IrishDiasporaPhoto
Like any Gaelic community, the command of language was highly valued.
Like many other peoples, Highlanders love a quick turn of phrase, a sharp retort, and a witty aphorism, which once coined, would make frequent appearance in daily conversation. Eloquence was a sign of intelligence and a means of persuasion.
This is illustrated in the context of Gaelic North Carolina by anecdotes such as the following incident desc…
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29 Aug 2022, 08:40 UTC352 viewsread 6 August 2026 Forwarded from @IrishDiasporaPhoto
During the 18th and 19th centuries, a population of many thousands of Gaelic speaking Highland Scots and Scots-Irish migrated to North Carolina, particularly the Cape Fear Valley. The Argyll Colony was possibly the largest, though these Gaels were spread throughout North Carolina and the Appalachian mountains alongside many Irish migrants who found community among fellow Gaels.
In 1739 the leaders of the Argyll Col…
29 Aug 2022, 08:40 UTC305 viewsread 6 August 2026 Forwarded from @CelticEuropePhoto
Sunset over Argyll, Scotland. 🏴
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25 Aug 2022, 05:36 UTC346 views5 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
The Monarch of the Glen is an oil painting of a red deer stag completed by English painter Sir Edwin Landseer in 1851. One of the most iconic painting in Scottish cultural history, the stag has its roots in Celtic mythology. The stag symbolized the “otherworldliness” of the realm of the dead, and the untamed freedom and wilderness of nature and the forest. Its antlers resemble tree branches, as if it carries the fore…
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23 Aug 2022, 08:02 UTC301 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 A compilation of songs written by Scotland's national bard, Robert Burns, compiled by one of your Britslore admins to improve your Monday:
https://youtu.be/zkDt_8xvDqw
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22 Aug 2022, 22:22 UTC260 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
The iconic St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh’s Town along the Royal Mile
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21 Aug 2022, 09:24 UTC255 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Forwarded from @CelticEuropePhoto
Endinburgh castle, Scotland, thought by many to be the location of Din Eidyn, capital of the Celtic kingdom of Gododdin. 🏴
The people of Gododdin were a tribe of Britons, known in Roman sources as the Votadini. The kingdom encompassed the entire southeast of Scotland. Sadly, it was destroyed in the year AD 638 by the Angles of Northumbria, who’d just united their polity with another Celtic kingdom in northern …
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20 Aug 2022, 08:00 UTC289 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Forwarded from @tradpicsPhoto
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Showing the 11 most recent of 11 posts we hold for @Wolf_of_Alba. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.