Tag Archives: edinburgh

Scott Monument

Posted on 2024-06-26 by Bartholomew Barker

Edinburgh loves its writers. I’d say almost as much as Dublin where there were statues to Joyce or Yeats practically every block but here it’s Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. The Monument to Scott towers above the city, over … Continue reading →

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The Grave of Robert Fergusson

Posted on 2024-06-19 by Bartholomew Barker

I am ashamed to admit that I’d never heard of Robert Fergusson until I reached Edinburgh but the poetry he wrote in his very brief life inspired Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson and untold other Scots.

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Edinburgh Closed for Repair

Posted on 2016-07-06 by Bartholomew Barker

I’m glad I went back to the ScotlandsPeople Research Centre in the National Archives today because I missed something yesterday. I thought I might have found Mary Milligan’s birth record but I was wrong. According to her tombstone in Hancock … Continue reading →

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