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[Scottish Gaelic, 'Remember the death of Alpin'] Plant badge: pine Chief: none Commander: Michael T. McAlpin, Armigers: eight MacAlpine armigers [184] No chiefly arms have been recorded in the Lyon Register. MacAulay: Crest: A boot couped at the ankle and theron a spur Proper. [185] Motto: Dulce periculum [185] [Latin, 'Danger is sweet'].
Finally, another major influx of Scots into northern Ireland occurred in the late 1690s, when tens of thousands of people fled a famine in Scotland to come to Ulster. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] It was only after the 1690s that Scottish settlers and their descendants, the majority of whom were Presbyterian , gained numeric superiority in Ulster, though still ...
The deaths led to public mourning and protests against the IRA. Pressure to act spurred a political crisis for the Northern Ireland Government, which led to the resignation of James Chichester-Clark as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. The British Army raised the minimum age needed to serve in Northern Ireland to 18 in response to this incident.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said they were made aware, on Tuesday, of the discovery of the body. DI Jennifer Rea said: “My thoughts are, first and foremost, with Mr George’s family ...
The Northern Scot is a weekly newspaper published in Moray, Scotland. References External links. Northern Scot Website; This page was last edited on 20 July 2024 ...
The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts. The accident is the RAF's fourth-worst peacetime disaster. [1] [2] [3]
17 January – a German Heinkel He 111 meteorological aircraft is crash-landed on Fair Isle.; 5 February – the cargo ship SS Politician runs aground on Eriskay.; 12 February – Tom Johnston is appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, a post which he holds until the end of the wartime coalition.
Northern Scotland was an administrative division of Scotland used for police and fire services. It consisted of Highland , the Orkney Islands , the Shetland Islands , and the Western Isles . The police service ( Northern Constabulary ) used Northern in its name, but the fire service used the name Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service .