History calls tonight, with the captain making his 400th Celtic appearance – an astonishing figure in the modern era, while Brendan’s men could equal the Lisbon Lions record of 26 unbeaten domestic games, achieved in season 1966-67.
For me, it’s also the first time I’ve seen Celtic in the flesh in 4 weeks, which itself feels like an historic gap.
Several weeks ago we discussed St Johnstone in the context of being in a league of their own, equally adrift from the top three and those below them, but that’s no longer the case. They are now 3 points behind Hearts with a game in hand, and with the way Hearts results have been heading recently, Saints will fancy their chances of finishing fourth.
After taking points off Aberdeen, Newco and three others in December, the roof fell in on St Johnstone at Dens on Hogmanay. Like all Celtic Park visitors, they will defend deep and play on the counter, but we know the task. Expect history books to be updated later tonight.
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The Battered Bunnet
No doubt that Burns, Scott and later Robert Louis Stephenson have all contributed via poetry and the novel to a view of Scottish history. Scott helped engineer the first visit of a monarch, George IV, to Scotland in two hundred years. He tried to persuade said King that he was also a Stuart, or at least directly descended from James VI, and hence Mary, which was in fact. Would never have set foot in either Scotland or England though had it not been for 1701. I noticed the other night that Scott was portrayed,unfairly in my book, as a a kind of progenitor of the Ku Klux Klan by Neil Oliver, and not for the first time. And that was Scott the novelist!
The Battered Bunnet
No doubt that Burns, Scott and later Robert Louis Stephenson have all contributed via poetry and the novel to a view of Scottish history. Scott helped engineer the first visit of a monarch, George IV, to Scotland in two hundred years. He tried to persuade said King that he was also a Stuart, or at least directly descended from James VI, and hence Mary, which was in fact true. Would never have set foot in either Scotland or England though had it not been for 1701. I noticed the other night that Scott was portrayed,unfairly in my book, as a a kind of progenitor of the Ku Klux Klan by Neil Oliver, and not for the first time. And that was Scott the novelist!
THE BATTERED BUNNET @ 3 23 .
Best to avoid such no shins ..
TBB
i also think Scott’s depiction of the ‘Porteous Riot’ is a warning of the power of popular insurrection, and the need for the strict rule of law….Scott is horrified by the random violence of insurrection, but also fascinated.
In a nutshell, subdue the revolutionary impulse or go the same way as France…..re-hash of Edmund Burke in novel form…sort of:)
HH
Paul67 et al
Apologies for the double post.
The best laid plans o’ mice and men
Gang aft agley
Awe come on yer kidden? Lol, and this is news? No in the teal world, I can assure you.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15047130.Police_watchdog_probes_allegation_of_criminal_neglect_against_officers/
The green man
My son in law has a stoke SB – Bojan is very hit and miss and divides opinion – flatters to deceive – I agree that I don’t see what he would bring to us.
Anybody know when the cup game against ICT will be confirmed on Feb11th or 12th, travel plans to make. H H Hebcelt
TBB
I also note that Scott’s warning of the possibility of popular insurrection in HOM in 1818, was followed in 1820 by the Cato St Conspiracy, and the Radical War in the West of Scotland.
Anyway:)
HH
Sandman
Thank God, for sanity.
There is something for everyone in Burns, or there ought to be. Give the man some time and cast an e’en eye..
Ploughed through a volume of Waverley Novels in my teens, and loved them all.
Difference?
Often revisit Burns, not Scott. Never say never tho’…
Not that it matters, I visited Scott’s home at Abbotsford a few years ago and suprised at the bells n whistles in the Chapel. First thoughts were, Episcopalian or High Anglican.
Seems his granddaughter converted to Catholicism in 1850’s, and her husband was supportive of, or connected to, Cardinal Newman.
http://www.scottsabbotsford.com/visit/the-house/the-chapel/193
Will the present day Hope-Scotts, be supporting the Hoops tonite?… ;-)
Left to my, mum by her late brother. I have expectations ;-)
Gene
What would be the point.
Id rather have Leigh Griff:)
HH
BT.
I’M coming into the Blane Valley around 3.00pm on Friday, wee chat regarding Lisbon.
Scott or Burns
I am more an Oor Wullie or William McGonagall man
COYBIG
I’d rather have Charlie Adam :))
JC2
On yonder hill, there stood a coo
Its no there noo, it must have shifted:)
Apologies to William MacGonagall
HH
Robert Burns,
Robbie’s sister, Agnes ’emigrated’ to County Louth around 1817, there’s a cottage there called ‘Burn’s Cottage’. It’s a lovely place called Stephenstown Pond, near Dundalk. Agnes and her husband, William Galt worked there for the landlord, Matthew Fortescue.
That’s why Carroll’s named their cigarettes brand ‘Sweet Afton’, which were manufactured in Dundalk to highlight Burns link with the town.
Agnes Burns is buried in one of the two St Nicholas’s Cemeteries in Dundalk.
http://stephenstownpond.com/?page_id=2
Robert Burns was certainly an important figure for the Society of United Irishmen prior to 1798. Some believe that it was the proceeds of the sale of a work by Burns that financed the newspaper The Northern Star, which was published by Presbyterian United Irishmen and frequently published Burn’s work. Henry Joy McCracken and Samuel Neilsen are known to have been supporters.
The Presbyterian’s post 1690 and the Penal Laws had been banned from holding office or holding certain professions. Presbyterian marriages were not regarded as legal until well into
the nineteenth century. It was all about ‘the Anglican Ascendancy’ I suppose.
It’s interesting how many in the Ulster Scotch fraternity (with a few notable exceptions) embrace the Scot’s tongue of Burns but neglect the facts of the United Irishmen or indeed the Society of United Scotsmen.
Good luck to Celtic, with a capital c, tonight. Heading out to the game soon and I hope Leigh Griffiths has the chance to shake off the winter break cobwebs during some part of the game.
Enjoyed the Glasgow photographs yesterday especially the Ca’d’oro building. Thanks, TD67.
On a Burns’ Night, many many years ago, a family of Maryhill Tims joined a family of Budhill Tims at that Ca’d’oro for a celebratory fiesta as my late parents began their married life. The hills were alive with the sound of rebel and Catholic music.
6IAR! still six to go.
Clogher Celt
Good post.
HH
PS William Topaz McGonagall
Shouldn’t be appraised against Scott and Burns as although he
tried to hide it he was according to census IRISH born
CELTIC MAC
Pretty sure Neil Oliver said the people of privilege in the South felt themselves to be living in a Walter Scott novel due to their romanticised view of their heritage.
Laird of all they saw kinda thing.))
I didn’t get the impression he was linking Scott with the Klan.
That’s what I took from that part of the show.
HH
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W T McG
Anybody heard from Cadizzy? ☺️
Don’t stand too near the fire in case your Rabbi Burns.
Mon the Hoops CSC
Pick up at 6.40
CLOGHER CELT on 25TH JANUARY 2017 3:59 PM,
Very interesting piece. There is a man living near me here in the West, who claims that Burns also visited Kildare and wrote the words to “The Curragh of Kildare”. Would you have heard or read anything to support this?
HH
Yogi
‘Amazing amazing Moussa Dembele what a goal what a goal’
One of Burns unpublished poems………..
To a Fart
Oh whit a sleekit horrible beastie
Lurks in yer belly efter the feastie
Jist as ye sit doon among yer kin
There sterts tae stir an enormous win’
The neeps ‘n’ tatties ‘n’ mushy peas
Stert workin’ like a gentle breeze
But soon the puddin’ wi’ the sauncie face
Will hae ye blawin’ a’ ower the place
Nae maiter whit the hell ye dae
A’bodys gonnae hiv tae pay
Even if ye try tae stifle
It’s like a bullet oot a rifle
Hawd yer bum ticht tae the chair
Tae try an’ stop the leakin’ air
Shify yersel fae cheek tae cheek
Prae tae God it disnae reek
But aw yer efforts go assunder
Oot it comes like a clap o’ thunder
Ricochets aroon the room
Michty me a sonic boom
God almichty it fairly reeks
Hope a huvnae s**t ma breeks
Tae the bog a better scurry
Aw whit the hell, it’s no ma worry
A’body roon aboot me chokin
Wan or twa are nearly bokin
A’ll feel better for a while
Cannae help but raise a smile
Wis him! A shout wi’ accusin glower
Alas too late, he’s jist keeled ower
Ye dirty bugger they shout and stare
A dinnae feel welcome ony mair
Where e’er ye be let yer wind gang free
Sounds like jist the job fur me
Whit a fuss at Rabbie’s party
Ower the sake o’ wan wee farty
I’ll get ma coat!
The Klan programme with Neil Oliver was only first broadcast on November 1st last year,good bit of television for anyone interested in the subject matter.
The one thing that struck me about the modern Klansmen/women was how uneducated they were,almost to a person they came across as simple and afraid.I found myself pitying rather than have animosity towards them.In fact,when comparing them to Klan members from old footage they don’t seem to have advanced at all in terms of education.They seem to be the exact opposite of what a ‘master race’ would be.I find them to be both ridiculous and incredibly sad.And,of course,dangerously unhinged.
They reminded me of a group of beings much closer to home but just a tad more sophisticated. ;))
https://youtu.be/UlzaBi_QxPw
STARRY PLOUGH on 25TH JANUARY 2017 4:22 PM
That was certainly what I understood he was saying.
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Well, We Won’t Be Celebrating Burns Tonight…..
Hell,No…..!
He Dissed Some Of Our Ancestors…
In A Certain Tawdry Verse….
Back In The Day.
Wee Ivanka And Barron Will Be Watchin’ The Bhoys Equalling A Lisbon Lions’ Record….
Then We’ve Arranged A “Live” Link-Up Between The Oval Office And The Brazen Heid……
And We’ll Have Ourselves A Fine Hootenannie…..
With Tony D. And The Gang….
Yee-Haw…!
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BABASONICOS71
Had a wee read through the comments on that clip, jeez oh:((
HH
Bojan???
Not sure about that at all ….Might be worth a punt
£8m????? No way!!!!!!!
But…..In Brendan I trust….
HH
STARRY…
Plus ça change…
The heart sinks at times.I guess some people will never learn. :((
ERNIE LYNCH
What did you make of the program Ernie,is there a move towards Scotland take ownership of it’s involvement with slavery??
——- Ol’ Cadizzy Driven North Of The Border…….
By The Continuing Courgette Famine In Croydon….
Due To The ‘Global Warming’ Hoax…..
Causing Heavy Frosts In The Courgette Fields Of Southern Spain.
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Yogi Hughes,
Thanks for that. Sorry I haven’t seen anything to support what your friend told you about The Curragh (but who knows).
Agnes Burns moved here in 1817 and died in 1834. Her husband William Galt, ironically died at the peak of An Gorta Mor in 1847.
1817 was well after Rabbie’s death in 1796.
It appears that Rabbie might have adapted ‘The Winter is Past’ from ‘The Love Sick Maid’, published in 1765. That piece was about a hanging on The Curragh.
That’s interesting, however because it further highlights the links.
The Green Man,
Cheers.
TD67 is a genius for stimulating so much work about Burns etc.
Fair play Tony, an inspired post :))
STARRY PLOUGH on 25TH JANUARY 2017 5:17 PM
I saw it the first time it was shown, which I think was on BBC Scotland.
The problem with its reception in Scotland is that Neil Oliver is something of a hate figure for the nats, so they’ll reject anything he has to say as a matter of principle.
There seems to be a growing awareness, or recognition, of the role the slave trade had in the growth of west coast ports like Glasgow, Liverpool and Bristol.
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Black Pigeon Speaks :
Chattel Slavery&How the UK Redeemed Humanity
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cuZqjC_MJv8
(6 Minutes)
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