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2 days ago · Patrick Sellar is a name closely associated with one of the most controversial and painful periods in Scottish history: the Highland Clearances. As a land agent for the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Sellar played a central role in the transformation of the Scottish Highlands during the early 19th century. This blog post delves into his life ...
Jul 9, 2024 · “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” (check out Patrick Bartley’s killer solo here: this is what inspired me to go learn the tune, in part because look at the fun he’s having playing it) I also, I should note, have mostly been playing alto, rather than the bari sax pictured above.
Jul 18, 2024 · The evil “Land Agent” of the Duchess of Sutherland, Patrick Sellar. He organised the burning of the Gaels homes. My comments earlier today on another post: I was up on the north coast of Scotland a few years back in my camper van, and I came across a local folk museum at Bettyhill, in an old church.
2 days ago · MacKenzie further notes, that unlike in Sutherland, where the Clearances are most remembered, there was no factor or middle man to provide a buffer between the tenants and the landlord, like the notorious Patrick Sellar, and that Clark did a lot of the evicting himself.
Jun 29, 2024 · In April 1816, Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable homicide in the manner of his treatment of the Highlanders of Strathnaver. This is an account of Sellar's life and times.
6 days ago · In Sutherland, Eòghainn MacDhonnchaidh (Ewan Robertson, (1842 – 1895) of Tongue was called "the Bard of the Clearances"; is most famous for his song Mo mhallachd aig na caoraich mhòr ("My curses upon the Border sheep") mocking, among others, the Duchess of Sutherland and Patrick Sellar.
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