The deposed Scottish queen wrote the four-page missive to her brother-in-law just a few hours before her execution in 1587 ...
The letter was written in the cell where Mary had been imprisoned for 19 years, just hours before she was executed.
Letter written hours before her execution in 1587 will form part of exhibition and programme of events in Perth aiming to bring queen’s story to life ...
It is a sure sign that Christmas is on the way when Fuse FM Mourne, an Ulster-Scots community radio station, hits the ...
Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...
For centuries, their mysteries remained unraveled in the depths of a French library. But now coded messages written by Mary Queen of Scots have finally been deciphered after more than four centuries ...
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the official Plantation is often seen as independent from surrounding developments... The Plantation of Ulster, promulgated in 1609 by King James I and launched a year later, lasted 15 years. Like ...
Ulster-Scots is a language which has been part of life here since the first Scots planters arrived in Ulster in the 17th Century. But more than 400 years on, it has become a sticking point in the ...