09-07-2010
Scottish Highland Clan Chiefs and Gaelic Culture
At the Clan Gathering 2009 many visitors were asking me why Scottish Highland Clan Chiefs did not speak their native Gaelic tongue?
I explained why and they seemed to accept my explanation with reserve.
That incident has stuck in my mind ever since, and I am now posting this on our Clan web site, not only to alert my fellow Chiefs, but to encourage them to try to learn their native Gaelic language, and even
if they only manage a sentence or two to begin with and have a stab at it. It will not only show that they are taking on board what clansmen throughout the world are thinking and discussing. It will help to
promote and re-establish our own native Gaelic language in Scotland.
Having recently attended a National Gaelic Seminar in the Royal Scottish Concert Hall/Lecture Theatre in Glasgow on what is being done to further develop our Gaelic Language and Culture throughout Scotland by Government ,National and voluntary organisations,and individuals,I decided to post the above message on our web site today. And I assured
the various government officials et al, that I would do so. They will
be watching developments as a result.
So. I am calling on all of my clansmen and women to lead the way and start learning their native Gaelic language today, not tomorrow or sometime never!
Mac Mhic Raonuil
"Suas leish na Gaidhlig !"
02-04-2010
ATTENTION ALL McCalebs/MacCalebs !
Our chief has been receiving several enquiries from McCalebs/MacCalebs over the last few years and promises of becoming registered members of our honourable clan.
Apparently, McCaleb/MacCaleb should be MacKillop but due to incorrect pronunciation in America and elsewhere it has misled researches by the various family members of McCaleb/MacCaleb line.
Our Chief has decreed that they can now apply for membership of our honourable clan, The Honourouble Clan Ranald of Lochaber by completing the official clan membership application form.
This can be found on the left hand side of our clan website. It can be completed on line and sent to our Chief for approval.
Thank you,
Seamus Burgess
Keppoch Clan Archivist
22-03-2010
ATTENTION -Chiefs of all Scottish Clans.
Will the Chiefs of the Scottish Clans who are interested in finding out information on claiming their lost or stolen Dutchas/Duthchaich contact the Chief of Keppoch of the Honourable Clan Ranald of Lochaber.
Signed
Mac Mhic Raonuill
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A warm and cordial
welcome to Keppoch clansmen world-wide.
This site has
been designed especially with you in mind, and I trust and sincerely
hope, that it is stimulating and beneficial to you all.
It is the first
for the Clan Ranald of Lochaber, and is in the process of being
developed. So please be patient, and you will I feel sure, find
it both interesting and rewarding. It will eventually contain a
wealth of information to help all those seeking further details
of our clan, its origin, its present status and future aims. Its
primary aim is to reunite our clan after a long interval of 156
years, and to facilitate easier and better communication between
us all.
You will be
able to communicate and create friendships with clansmen throughout
the world. We will establish links with other well established web
sites of similar interests, and others of diverse but interesting
and helpful inter-related subjects, such as : current Scottish News
at Home and Abroad, on-line Gaelic language courses, music and song,
educational Gaelic teaching organizations, magazines etc, Scottish
/Celtic history, and genealogical services, entertainment, tourism,
shopping etc. It will be an exciting one -stop-shop for all those
interested in their clan's origins and heritage.
MAC
MHIC RAONUILL |
ENSIGNS ARMORIAL :,
THEREFORE, the Lord Lyon King of Arms, for aught yet seen (Primo) MAINTAINS, RATIFIES and CONFIRMS unto the Petitioner and his heirs male, Chief of the Name and Arms of MacDonald of Keppoch and of the Honourable Clanranald, Mac'ic Raonuill, the following Ensigns Armorial, videlicet:- Quarterly, 1st, Or, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure, 2nd, Argent, a dexter hand Gules holding a cross crosslet fitchée Sable, 3rd, Argent, a lymphad sails unfurled and oars in action Sable flagged Gules, 4th, Azure, a salmon naiant Proper. Above the Shield is placed an Helm befitting his degree with a Mantling Gules doubled Or 6 7 , and on a Wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest an eagle displayed Gules crowned of a ducal coronet Or, and in an Escrol over the same this Motto "AIR MUIR 'S TIR" and in another Escrol below the same this Motto "DIA 'S NAOMH AINDREA"; and on a compartment below the Shield comprising a rock Proper charged with the outline of a footprint are set for Supporters two wild boars Azure armed Argent langued Gules crined Or, each holding a Lochaber axe, its head facing outwards, Proper the cutting edge Sanguinée; and for his Standard three and a half metres long having Azure a St. Andrew's Cross Argent in the hoist of two tracts Gules and Or with his Crest depicted once and the slogan "DIA 'S NAOMH AINDREA" in letters Sable in the fly; and for his Pinsel 135 centimetres long and 60 centimetres high Gules, bearing the foresaid Crest within a strap of leather Gules buckled and embellished Argent inscribed with the Motto "AIR MUIR 'S AIR TIR" in letters also Argent all within a circlet of the Last, fimbriated Azure, bearing his title "MAC'IC RAONUILL" in letters Gules and in the fly, surmounted of a sprig of white heather Proper, being the proper plant-Badge of Clanranald of Lochaber, the slogan "DIA 'S NAOMH AINDREA" in letters Sable, and (Secundo) GRANTS WARRANT to the Lyon Clerk to matriculate the foresaid Ensigns Armorial in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland.
