Quote Originally Posted by wscottmac View Post
Another way to state this may be, "What thoughts do you personally have when you don your kilt on March 17th?"
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Before there was a Scotland or Ireland or England; there was the Kingdom of Dalraida. Dalraida included lands both in the north of Ireland and the west of Scotland. The peoples considered the sea between them as their highway. It was these people the Romans called the Scotti that the name Scotland was derived.

My clan Malcolm/MacCallum hails from the Poltalloch peninsula of Argyll. Within this area is the ancient fort of Dunadd where the King of the eastern Kingdom of Dalraida reigned. Legend has it that the Irish St. Columba when searching for a place in ‘Scotland’ to establish his abbey was given/directed to the Isle of Iona. (This occurred in the 6th century, a century after St. Patrick came to Ireland.) The name Malcolm/MacCallum/ Mael Coluim means follower of St. Columba.

When I put on my Malcolm tartan kilt on St. Patrick’s Day I think of this common heritage.

Duntrune is the background - fresh from rowing the 'Colmcille' from Ireland!