MacFadyen’s notorious account of a tribal clash between immigrant Irish families. I swithered about recording this, but it’s important to know that it was not always the ‘Gaels le chèile’ camaraderie of today’s Glasgow Gaelic communities.

Them-and-us is still there in the city’s never-resolved religious sectarianism, and in the farthest extremities of Highland Sabbatarianism that sometimes barely conceals the same. Whether MacFadyen was voicing the collective opinion of a community just happy to see other incomers worse off even than themselves, or whether there was more of a personal antipathy isn’t clear.

Scots Gaels did however intermingle between territorial groups and societies, and therefore between religious backgrounds. Either way, this wee proddy dog shouldn’t shy away from admitting this part of our world.

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