Music Is Required. Now.

[unixronin]

Because, y'see, there's this fine pair o'Irish lads who perform under the name of Men of Worth (though they joke that they have, in fact, become Men of Girth).  And while they're as fine a pair o'lads as ever you'll hear, I must purge teh Eeevul of das Earwürm from mah BRANE.  Because if "Roses of Prince Charlie" runs through my head one more time this morning, I may have to travel across the water mysel', find the grave o' the Pretender frae Oe'r the Water, and PISS ON IT.

I hold the Pretender more or less single-handedly responsible for setting in motion the destruction of the Highland clans and the Scouring of the Glens.  Discuss.

Comments

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Yes, but if James Edward Stuart hadn't started it, and not only functioned as the figurehead for the first Jacobite Rebellion (1715?), his son wouldn't have had a chance. Don't tell me that his Da wasn't the motive force behind Prince Charlie's cause---sort of like James was the "stage father" setting it all up behind the scenes.

And let's not get into the Campbells...

I STILL regard this whole thing as the last hurrah of the English Civil War and the Curse of Mary Queen of Scots. (Actually, the last of the Curse of Mary played out in the Russian Revolution, but that's another story...)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Like I said, it's a capsule summary from memory, and I'm not going into exhaustive deep detail. :)

"Campbells? Guid soup, laddie. -- Oh, ye didnae mean those Campbells?"