• Ailean Maclean (flourished 16th century) was the second son of Lachlan Cattanach Maclean, but better known as Ailean nan Sop, or Allan o' the Wisp, because...
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  • Conqueror, in the 11th century. Ailean Maclean, (fl. 16th century), a Scotsman popularised in 19th century folklore Ailéan mac Ruaidhrí, (died ×1296), Norwegian...
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  • include: Eachann Mor Maclean, his heir and successor Ailean Maclean, second son of Lachlan Catanach, but better known as Ailean nan Sop, or Allan o' the...
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  • repertoire survives. Like fellow Gaelic Bards Iain Lom and Sìleas na Ceapaich, Ailean a' Ridse was born into both the Scottish nobility and Clan MacDonald of...
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  • emergency is illustrated in the art he exhibited in appeasing the wrath of Ailean nan Sop. The official records show a "gift to Hector McClane, brother and...
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    father a charter of the lands of Lehire-Torloisk, forfeited by the son of Ailean nan Sop, which was afterward confirmed by royal grant. He was present at...
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  • of Sir Lachlan Mor Maclean, and he received from his father a charter of the lands of Lehire-Torloisk, forfeited by the son of Ailean nan Sop, which was...
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    MacLean chieftain, Ewen or John Abrach, the son of John Garve Maclean of Coll was killed. The Camerons were led in the battle by their chief Ailean nan...
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    sixty gallowglass warriors commanded by Dubhghall's younger brother, Ailéan. Ailéan is, therefore, one of the earliest known warriors of this type. Along...
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    1969 Following Bishop William Fraser's death in 1851, local Catholic poet Ailean a' Ridse MacDhòmhnaill, a major figure in both Scottish Gaelic literature...
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    the history of Scottish Gaelic literature, including Ailean a' Ridse MacDhòmhnaill and John MacLean during the days of early settlement and Lewis MacKinnon...
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    Dubh Camshròn, XV Chief of Clan Cameron, had died, leaving an infant son, Ailean, at the head of the clan. During the battle the chief of Mackintosh is believed...
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    prize was by no means without its hazards. In 1530 the notorious pirate Ailean nan Sop murdered MacNeill of Taynish and numerous island residents. A dozen...
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    an illegitimate son of Ailéan mac Ruaidhrí, a son of Ruaidhrí mac Raghnaill, Lord of Kintyre, eponym of Clann Ruaidhrí. Ailéan had another illegitimate...
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  • Scottish magnate and chief of Clann Ruaidhrí. He was an illegitimate son of Ailéan mac Ruaidhrí, and is recorded to have participated in the kindred's military...
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    hundred and sixty gallowglass warriors commanded by Dubhghall's brother, Ailéan. The year before this, Aodh na nGall had been one of several leading Irishmen...
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  • of the Jacobite Army during the Battle of Sherrifmuir and witnessed when Ailean Dearg, the Chief of their clan, fell mortally wounded, "killed, it was popularly...
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    Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2010. Maclean, the Nonagenarian (25 July 1886). "Reminiscences of a clachnacuddin nonagenarian"...
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  • by the events of the Uprising was only completed many years later. When Ailean Dearg, the Chief of Clan Macdonald of Clanranald had been mortally wounded...
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    by the events of the Uprising was only completed many years later. When Ailean Dearg, the Chief of Clan Macdonald of Clanranald had been mortally wounded...
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  • Leventhal), Sanseptique Set: Domhnall Dubh An Domhnallaich / Thoir A Nall Ailean Thugam / Senseptique (Tommy Hayes, Fiona Kennedy, Karen Matheson), Down...
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    other Clan Donald leaders, Ailean Dearg was away fighting in the Jacobite rising of 1715. A few days after the fire, Ailean Dearg was fighting on the right...
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  • storyteller, who was a mason himself, on 8 August 1951] Vol. 3, p. 360. Mgr. Ailean anns a' Cholaiste. [Passages from Fr. Allan MacDonald's Notebook kept at...
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    Galloway. Blind at his death in 1303. 1303 x 1305–1322 Alan Scottish Gaelic: Ailean. Died in office. 1324–1326 x 1327 Gilbert Maclellan Scottish Gaelic: Giolla-Brighde...
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    The MacDonells of Glengarry fought at the Battle of Sheriffmuir. When Ailean Dearg, the Chief of Clan Macdonald of Clanranald was mortally wounded, Alasdair...
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    Macdonald MSP". The Scottish Parliament. Retrieved 28 June 2014. Beaton, Ailean (1 April 2020). "Lewis Macdonald elected temporary Deputy Presiding Officer"...
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  • appears to have been composed around Glen Shee in about 1400 by a certain Ailéan Mac Ruaidhrí, a man who could have been a descendant of Eóghan. The Irish...
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