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May 27, 2026 ∙ 3 min
Taking a walk along the Shale Trail
THE days when an oil rush brought Irish Catholics flocking to work in the shale mines and oil refineries of West Lothian (above), are being recalled thanks to the establishment of a Shale Trail, linking Livingston with West Calder.
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Dec 27, 2025 ∙ 3 min
Breathing new life into the Gorbals Viaduct
A LANDSCAPE designer wants to see the Gorbals Viaduct—one of the last, remaining structures surviving from the days when Gorbals was the traditional home of a large Irish, immigrant community—redesigned as an urban park.
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Oct 14, 2024 ∙ 3 min
Donegal diaspora share stories of working life
SOME 170 people dropped in to record stories and pictures of Donegal people working in Scotland between 1940 and 1990
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