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Woodside Commemoration 9th August

This year’s commemoration at the Martyr’s Memorial, Woodside Cemetery takes place this Saturday (August 9) to remember the 1820 Radical Rising which was backed by Paisley workers who showed their support by demonstrating at Meikleriggs Moor on the outskirts of town.

Members and friends are asked to assemble outside the cemetery gates, in Broomlands Street at 11.30 a.m., and proceed to the Memorial at noon. There will be a wreath laying ceremony in memory of the 1820 martyrs followed by speeches from guest speakers. These include Provost Celia Lawson of the SNP, a representative of the Labour Party, Gerry McCartney on behalf of the SSP, and John McNaughtan will speak on behalf of Paisley & District Trade Unions Council.


1820 Society Website: http://the1820society.150m.com/
jamesieboy

These people were truly great Scottish heroes.

It amazes me that more fuss is not made over the contribution they made and the sacrifices they had to endure.
Aventinian

jamesieboy wrote:
It amazes me that more fuss is not made over the contribution they made and the sacrifices they had to endure.


Perhaps not 'fuss', but I am surprised it is as little known as it is. If there are any aspiring historians out there, it's probably a fairly untapped market to explore.
Holebender

You're surprised at the lack of "fuss" about the 1820 Rising? Surely you are aware that history is written by the victors! We can't have the lieges finding out that not everyone in Scotland was a happy Unionist during the 19th Century, can we?
Dave Coull

Holebender wrote:
You're surprised at the lack of "fuss" about the 1820 Rising? Surely you are aware that history is written by the victors!
Generally speaking, that does tend to be true, but there can be the odd exception. One of the books on my bookshelf is "The Scottish Insurrection of 1820", by Peter Berresford Ellis and Seamas Mac A'Ghobhainn. I'm not offering to lend this book, because I have lost some quite irreplaceable books over the years through loans which turned out to be permanent, but if anybody is interested it cost me £12.99 and is published by John Donald, of Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, whose web site is at  www.birlinn.co.uk
Aventinian

Holebender wrote:
You're surprised at the lack of "fuss" about the 1820 Rising? Surely you are aware that history is written by the victors! We can't have the lieges finding out that not everyone in Scotland was a happy Unionist during the 19th Century, can we?


That's not remotely true: if history was written by the victors, why are the Jacobite Risings so famous and the history for a long period almost universally against the Government side?

Anyway, Radicalism in the 1820s was not a nationalist movement. It had some nationalisms amongst it, certainly.
Dave Coull

Aventinian wrote:
why are the Jacobite Risings so famous
Because Sir Walter Scott wrote about them, in novels which were extremely popular at the time, in an age before television etc, and turned them into something romantic but doomed, instead of a very real threat. Walter Scott also managed the trick of getting a Hanoverian king to come to Edinburgh and wear a Stuart tartan kilt to receive his "loyal" subjects including some who not so long before had been rebels. The line was that they had mistakenly continued to be loyal to the Jacobite pretender who had let them down and now there were no more loyal subjects of King George anywhere. This storyline, thought up for novels then used in organising the Kings Jaunt, has become widely thought of as "history" despite being formulated by a writer of fiction.

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