The man born on Burns’ Night, 1915, changed his name from plain Jimmie Miller to underline his Scottishness
G O INto any Irish pub from Aberdeen to Adelaide, Clydebank to Chicago or Dundee to Dunedin and it won’t be long before the haunting strains of ‘Dirty Old Town’ waft out from the jukebox or sound system.
The archetypal Irish ballad, you might think, and a hugely popular one at that thanks to the efforts over the years of groups like the Clancy Brothers, the Dubliners and the Pogues.
But Dirty Old Town wasn’t written about Dublin and it wasn’t written by an Irishman. It was the creation of proud and dedicated Scottish nationalist, Ewan MacColl, who might have been born in the North of England industrial city of Salford, but was Scottish through and through - a fact of life he never tired of emphasising.
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October 2016 Edition
The one with the "EAT YOUR CEREAL" COVER
Robbie Dinwoodie has an exclusive interview with Malcolm Chisholm
Peter A Bell on the Essential Nationalist and why a form of cultural oppression has been going on for years in the classroom
Will McLeod in New Yorks writes on Hilary and the US Media
Dr Craig Dalzell on the subject of GERS
Wee Ginger Dug - Have a nice cold bowl of Brexit
The Most Excellent Tom Morton on Finding good whisky at reasonable prices.
Delia Forrest in Barcelona - Independence, at what price?
Photo Essay by Top Photographer Simon Mayson
Prof Steve Peers of Essex University - Can Scotland stay in the EU as part of the UK after Brexit?
Jennifer Harper- a Basic Income Guarantee Payment + a Glass Act
Dr Steve McCabe - Protecting Vulnerable Adults
Ann MacLaren - James MacLaren and Fortingall
Dave Bowman - Ewan MaColl
iScot Short Story - Lunch at the Palazzo
iScot Book Review - Par for the Ladies
Rachel Gillon - Preserving Scotland's culinary heritage
Grouse Beater - My Life as a Hero
Mary Edward - The Govan Stones
Fiona Nicholson - Bio-Assistance Dogs
David McVey - Industrial Idyll - Inchcailloch - Loch Lomond
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