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A visit to Alloway In Memoriam of Robert Burns…

 

 

Bust of Robert Burns in Alloway Memorial © 2012 Scotiana

Today is a date not to be missed on the calendar for it is the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, the great national bard of Scotland whose poems are known and sung all over the world… so let us […]

January 25th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: A Scots Yearbook, Authors, Great Scots | Leave a comment

Scottish Top Authors share their favourite reads…

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Mairiuna, I just stumbled upon an article in the Scotsman online magazine that compiles a list of top Scottish authors’ favourite books for the year 2012.

In all, 44 authors contributed to this project. Wow… Ain’t it exciting to find out what our best authors reads are?

So happy to find on the list […]

January 18th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books | Leave a comment

Following Literary Trails in Scotland: Edinburgh…

 

 

Edinburgh Advocate's Close © 2006 Scotiana

To discover literary Edinburgh, you have to walk it, defying Robert Louis Stevenson’s “bleak winds” and exploring Dorothy Wordsworth’s “passes of dark stone”, simply because there is no other way of penetrating the ancient wynds, closes and creeper-ridden burial grounds of this city, whose literary […]

August 22nd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books, Edinburgh | Leave a comment

Google Doodles Celebrating Scotland…

Hi Mairiuna!

It was truly a pleasure to read your last post triggered by Google Doodle’s commemoration of the 220th birth anniversary of Gioachino Rossini. The music was such a joy to hear!

Gioachino Rossini – Google Doodle- 29 February 2012

Thanks for sharing such great insights about Rossini and the nature of his […]

March 18th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books, Google Doodles, Robert Louis Stevenson | Leave a comment

Charles Dickens’s Scottish relationships and trips to Scotland…

 

Charles Dickens – Google's Search Bar Image on 7 February 2012

These nice google images which regularly celebrate great men or women, be they writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, economists, politicians, humanitarians, always trigger my curiosity and I often click on them to know what man or woman is hiding behind…

On Tuesday, […]

February 13th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors | Leave a comment
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