PATRICK Gallagher (1871-1966) – to give the legendary “Paddy the Cope” his proper Sunday name – is a figure who for many has the status of working-class hero in both Scotland and Ireland.
In two years’ time Scotland will (or should) be celebrating the centenary of the birth of one of its greatest sons, Hamish Henderson, on November 11th 1919.
PROMINENTLY in the news is that ministers believe that batteries will power Britain when there’s insufficient wind or sun. No doubt they haven’t read the progress reports on Leighton Buzzard, Britain’s flagship experimental battery bank, which admit that electricity storage by batteries is not profitable.
TWO hundred years ago, on January 25 1817, the Robert Burns Mausoleum Committee was meeting in Dumfries to settle business accounts. Their new mausoleum, in the nearby St Michael’s Churchyard, where the poet’s bones now rest, was under construction.
