"What traditional Irish Catholicism, the Calvinism of the Highlands and the Calvinistic Methodism of Wales shared, at least until recently, was a set of values that would have most modern Celtic revivalists shuddering."

incredible fiddler from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

useful visual timeline of the history of the English language

[...] "If, after all, you are not Irish, who is?"

'One of the most unsettling experiences I have ever had was in the Edinburgh vaults on our latest trip to Scotland'