Sir William Burrell , a wealthy ship owner and shrewd investor was one of the World’s greatest art collectors. A Glaswegian, he donated his collection to the City in the mid-forties. Today , it is housed in a custom built gallery at Pollok Park on the South
Read more →Sorcha Óg You arrived Sorcha with the dawn on the fifteenth of June, another bairn for Scotland, a sister for Leo and Senan, a daughter for Jen and Neill , another grandchild, a burst of radiance in this gilded summer. Your Gaelic name means ‘light’ and you
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‘Let me smell your breath!’ , Ian Paisley demanded of Martin Bell, the BBC’s Northern Ireland correspondent during the early years of ‘ The Troubles’. Bell had asked for a comment on a recent display of militarism in East Belfast by a loyalist group. The exchange was
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In ‘At the Purchaser’s Option’ , the superb Rhiannon Giddens in her bravura performance at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh , on Sunday, reminded us that the buyer had the choice whether to buy or refuse their new slaves’ babies. That number was inspired by an 18th century
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