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Category: Ceilidh
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Culture and connection
I have been reading about an interesting phenomenon: Generation Z’s feelings of nostalgia for times they don’t remember: the 1980s, the 1990s and the year 2000. They are buying flip […]
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Winter Events 2025/6
There were 15 cheerful souls at our tea party on Saturday, and I thank the host very much for his hospitality. We feasted on sandwiches, banana bread, chocolate chip cookies […]
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The Tea Party, Etc.
The regular crowd at Mrs McLean’s Waltzing Party have been invited to a tea party on October 25, and I will be giving there a brief address on the subject […]
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The Children’s Ceilidh
I’m excited to announce plans for a New Year’s Children’s Ceilidh for Parents who Love the Traditional Latin Mass (and Their Bairns). This will be in Edinburgh in mid-January 2026. […]
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Building Community
Traditional social dancing is all the rage among Traditional Latin Mass communities around the world, and naturally Scotland is no exception. There will be not one but TWO ceilidhs in […]
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My Dancing Day
“Tomorrow shall be my dancing day” is a traditional Christmas carol that may date back to the 14th century. It is unusual in that its creators imagined Our Lord singing […]
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Three Ceilidhs
Happy New Year! My sister Tertia and I went to an Edinburgh ceilidh on New Year’s Eve, feeling a little sorry for those thousands whose outdoor revels were thwarted by […]
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An Hour’s Christmas Dance
Mr McLean and I are hosting an hour of dancing after the parish Christmas party. Our idea is that it will give young parents who enjoy dancing–but for obvious reasons […]
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Dilexit Andream Dominus
An Andrewcentric Introduction We go to Mass in a 1900 wooden flatpack church shipped from another northern country and assembled on what was then newly bought land. According to legend, […]
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The Michaelmas Dance 2024
Michaelmas Eve was a sunny, dry day in Edinburgh, for which I am most grateful. I began it by washing wine glasses, and I ended it by stacking bags of […]