The Kilted Calendar

**Scotus** · 19th May 05, 11:38 AM

Don't forget...

June 9 (Traditional Calendar) - Feast of Saint Columba, founder of the monastery on the island of Iona, burial place of early Scottish kings.

and...

June 10 (Traditional Calendar) or November 16 (New Calendar) - Feast of Saint Margaret of Scotland, the saintly wife of King Malcolm III.

**highlandtide** · 19th May 05, 11:59 AM

Hey Guys. You should be able to add these dates to the new calendar function. Go ahead and try it!

**T90 Tim** · 19th May 05, 10:21 PM

Feb. 13th - The massacre at Glencoe

**beerbecue** · 20th May 05, 06:14 AM

June 21st - My wedding anniversary and the summer solstice!!

**Manu** · 20th May 05, 04:03 PM

How about every day is a kilt holiday? It sounds much better.

**motorman4life** · 21st May 05, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by Iñaki

How about every day is a kilt holiday? It sounds much better.

Bingo! Official KILT DAY Website www.kiltday.com

**macgreggor** · 21st May 05, 01:26 PM

my wife, god love her, had someone come up and ask HER, while i was standing there, "why is he wearing a kilt?" deadpan my wife replied< " don't you know that your groceries are 1/2 price if you are wearing a kilt?"
i think i pulled something not laughing as the woman almost ran out of the store!
macG

**LordDamax** · 28th July 05, 09:58 AM

Earlier reading the other thread I considered making a website where it displayed a calendar, and you could click on a day and enter the 'why a kilt today' info for that day. Then I thought, heck, I'm lazy so I didnt bother posting.

Now with this thread, figure I'd ask if there'd be any interest in it. It's something I could bang out in about an hour or so. Would there be an interest in it?

**MikeSKenne** · 28th March 07, 03:02 PM

As long as I can remember I have seen Pipe bands & Kilts @ St. Patrick's Day parades. Having lived in Scotland and being the stupid git american tha asked, while visiting in Ireland, "Where can I find a kiltmaker ?" And to be immediately laughed at. "Silly Americans. Kilts are Scottish." was the reply by shopkeepers. I know kilts are Scottish, but at the time I thought they were Irish too. I've tried to find out what the connection is. When in Scotland we celebrated St. Andrew's Day by wearing our kilts.
St. Pat's Day in Ireland up until the late 1990's was a holy day. A day to go to Mass. Then the Irish figured out they could make some money from having Americans celebrate St. Pat's in Ireland. Then kiltmakers, located in Scotland, found a market for "Irish Kilts" and started producing tartans per county. I personally know a gentleman, from when I lived in Edinburgh, that grew up in Northern Ireland, that told me that he had worn a kilt as a boy. It wasn't like the Scottish kilt with a tartan. His was a specific tweed. Anyway back to my painstaking question. Why tartan kilts from Scottish clans on St. Patrick's Day.