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Kirriemuir (/ ˌ k ɪr i ˈ m jʊər / KIRR-ee-MURE, Scots: [ˌkɪreˈmeːr,-møːr]; Scottish Gaelic: Ceathramh Mhoire [ˌkʲʰɛɾə ˈvɔɾʲə]), sometimes called Kirrie or the Wee Red Toon, [2] is a burgh in Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom. The playwright J. M. Barrie was born and buried here and a statue of Peter Pan is in the town square ...
"The Ball of Kirriemuir" (occasionally Kerrymuir and other variants), sometimes known as "The Gathering of the Clans" or "Four-and-Twenty Virgins", is a traditional song of Scottish origin.
Dudley Dexter Watkins (27 February 1907 – 20 August 1969) was an English cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his characters Oor Wullie and The Broons; comic strips featuring them have appeared in the Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post since 1936, along with annual compilations.
The Kirrie came close to a win in the first round in 1893–94, leading perennial blockage Montrose 2–1 in the dying stages of their tie, but Montrose scored twice late to win 3–2. [ 10 ] It had a similar lack of success in the local competitions.
The slab is carved on both faces in relief and, as it bears Pictish symbols, it falls into John Romilly Allen and Joseph Anderson's classification system as a class II stone.
Oor Wullie (English: Our Willie) is a Scottish comic strip published in the D.C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post. It features a character called Wullie; Wullie is a Scots nickname for boys named William, equivalent to Willie.
Kirriemuir Thistle Football Club are a Scottish junior football club based in Kirriemuir, Angus.Their home ground is Westview Park. Up until the end of the 2005–06 season, the club played in Tayside Division One of the Scottish Junior Football Association's East Region.
Kerry or Kerri is a unisex English language given name of Gaelic (Irish) origin.. The First person named Kerri was Kerri Bontempo in late 286 AD and passed down through generations of Bontempo’s to come.