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Scottish soap opera River City has featured neds such as Shellsuit Bob. [18] Neds is a 2010 film by director Peter Mullan. [19] A 2020 Graeme Armstrong novel, The Young Team, set in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire a few miles east of Glasgow and narrated by a gang member in the local dialect, focuses on the 'ned culture' of the region in the early ...
A copper plaque by Duddingston Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland.The Kirk is situated below Arthur's Seat and next to Duddingston Loch. "Jock Tamson's bairns" is a Scots (and Northumbrian English) dialect version of "Jack (John) Thomson's children" but both Jock and Tamson in this context take on the connotation of Everyman.
A 2020 Graeme Armstrong novel, The Young Team, narrated by a gang member in the local dialect, focuses on the 'ned culture' of the region in the early 21st century (albeit set in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire a few miles east of Glasgow rather than in the city itself).
Neds (also known as Non-Educated Delinquents, stylised as NEDS) is a 2010 coming-of-age drama film directed and written by Peter Mullan.Set in Scotland, the film centres on John McGill (Conor McCarron), a teenager growing up in 1970s Glasgow.
In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes ..." — Billy Connolly " ... this nation must rank among the most enlightened in the universe. Politics, religion and literature have made of Scotland something beyond compare ..." — Charles de Rémusat
Edward Atkinson Hornel (17 July 1864 – 30 June 1933) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children. He was a cousin of James Hornell. His contemporaries in the Glasgow Boys called him Ned Hornel.
Scotland is the "Home of Golf", and is well known for its courses. As well as its world-famous Highland Games (athletic competitions), it is also the home of curling, and shinty, a stick game similar to Ireland's hurling. Scotland has 4 professional ice hockey teams that compete in the Elite Ice Hockey League. Scottish cricket is a minority game.
An increase in the English anti-Scottish sentiments after the Jacobite uprisings and the anti-Scottish bills of the parliament are clearly shown in comments by leaders in English such as Samuel Johnson, whose anti-Scottish remarks such as that "in those times nothing had been written in the Earse [i.e. Scots Gaelic] language" is well known. [21]