McCain's Corner

Well it is May Day... I remember well the May Pole ritual which was still around when I was a child.  And what is May Day? It is a very...

I will be speaking at the 30th Charles Bascombe Shaw Memorial Scottish Heritage Weekend.  This symposium runs from April 5 through April 7....

Bríd (artist unknow) Imbolc... also called Lá Fhéile Bríde. A Gaelic festival that marks the halfway point between the winter sol...

White Beard Speaks: Intermittent Fast, Coffee, and Ketones : Will coffee break your Fast?  Let's find out shall we. I am doing several...

An Excellent Christmas Present. On Sale On Amazon. If you like things Irish, Scottish, a Gaelic princess, the biography of an Irish f...

Modern advertisement for a Lughnasa festival in Ireland Here we are again, another year and the return of Lughnasa.  Lughnasa is o...

Irish and Scots Female Ancestor Names in Primary Sources Finding the name of a male ancestor is fairly straight forward.  It wil...

Dagda This is the Summer Solstice today.   It is the Midsummer festival which is often celebrated with a bonfire.  Saint John the Bapt...

Dave Swift from the Claoíbh in Redshank attire (Link to Claoíbh on Facebook) In the sixteenth century Scottish Highlanders settle...