- Màiri
nighean Alasdair Ruaidh (c.1615 – c.1707), also
known as Mary Macleod, was a
Scottish Gaelic poet. Born at Rowdil, Harris, she was a
daughter of...
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Maighread nighean Lachlainn (born c. 1660) was an eighteenth-century
Scottish Gaelic poet from Mull. In her poetry, she
mentions the
Jacobite risings...
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Shettleston (Scots: Shuttlestoun,
Scottish Gaelic:
Baile Nighean Sheadna) is an area in the east end of
Glasgow in Scotland. The
origin of the name "Shettleston"...
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Flora MacDonald (1722 – 5
March 1790) is best
known for
helping Charles Edward Stuart evade government troops after the
Battle of
Culloden in
April 1746...
- Anderson. The BBC also
produced a
Scottish Gaelic dub of the
series - "Ronia,
Nighean a' Mhèirlich" -
which was
broadcast on the BBC Alba
channel and available...
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Isabel daughter of
William (born c. 1165) (Gaelic: Isibéal
nighean Uilleim) was the
illegitimate daughter of
William I of
Scotland by a
daughter of Robert...
- Catrìona Nic a' Phì (strictly, nic is a
contraction of the
Gaelic phrase nighean mhic,
meaning "daughter of the son", thus NicDhòmhnaill
really means "daughter...
- Coinneach/Kenneth. The
female equivalent of Mac is Nic,
condensed from
nighean mhic (in
Scottish Gaelic) or iníon mhic (in Irish), both
meaning daughter...
- that
Torquil translates for Joan is a
traditional Gaelic song "Ho ro, mo
nighean donn bhòidheach",
originally translated into
English as "Ho ro My Nut Brown...
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single "Sleepy Maggie", and had a solo Top 40 hit with "Horo
Ghoid thu
Nighean", the
first single from her 1997
album Suas e!. Her 2012 collaboration...
