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August 11, 2025 123 mins
Tunes: Patrick MacDonald: Coma Leam, coma leam cogadh no sithAlike to me peace or War, The Gathering of the Clans, William Ross: Loudon’s Bonnie Woods and Braes, J&R Glen: Louden’s bonny Woods and Braes, Robertson & Ramsay: Loudon’s Bonnie Woods and Braes, Matthew Betham: Earl Moira’s Welcome to Scotland, David Glen: Loudon’s Bonnie Woods and Braes “Old Gaelic Air” Roddy Cannon/Keith Sanger: The Mother, Ailean Domhnullach (Allan MacDonald): The Harlaw Brosnachadh, Donald MacDonald: Cogadh na Sith Simon Chadwick: Cogadh no Sith – War or Peace C.A. Malcolm: The Piper in Peace and War Articles Read or Referenced: Keith Sanger’s 2015 Post about War or Peace from Pibroch.net: https://pibroch.net/learning/cogadh-no-sith-or-war-or-peace/ Listen to the George Moss and Peter Cooke interview here: https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/65235?l=en Special thanks to Alan MacDonald and Bonnie Rideout for the Use of Alan’s Performance on the Harlaw Album: https://youtu.be/3blkFtU0x9E?si=xtuSb06Iyoa8Lwr4 Check out Allan’s Work here: https://allanmacdonald.com/ And Bonnie Rideout’s work here: http://www.bonnierideout.com/ For the Translation I used for the Battle of Harlaw Poem is here: https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/112841104994359938 Simon Chadwick’s excellent post about his work preparing for his performance of War or Peace is here: https://simonchadwick.net/2016/07/cogadh-no-sith-war-peace.html To Watch Simon’s Performance look here: https://youtu.be/eXZDTefKrFI?si=9S4man2MW0Id6R8b 1927: Excerpt from The Piper In Peace And War By C. A. Malcolm, M.A., Ph.D. https://electricscotland.com/history/scotreg/peaseandwar15.htm Sound effects at the beginning from BBC Sound Effects Archive: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/ Sources: Loudon’s Bonny Woods and Braes 1869: Loudon’s Bonnie Woods and Braes from William Ross’s Collection of Pipe Tunes: https://web.archive.org/web/20210728140711/http://www.ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/Book08/Book08%206.pdf +X+X+ 1870: Loudon’s Bonnie Woods and Braes from J & R Glen's Collection for the Great Highland Bagpipe Book Three https://web.archive.org/web/20211017230720/https://ceolsean.net/content/JRGlen/Book03/Book03%2017.pdf +X+X+ “Sixty Years Ago”: Loudon’s Bonnie Woods and Braes from Robertson and Ramsay’s Master Method for the Highland Bagpipes: https://web.archive.org/web/20211017213952/https://ceolsean.net/content/RobRam/Book02/Book02%2014.pdf +X+X+ 1815: Earl Moira’s Welcome to Scotland (Loudon’s Bonnie Banks and Braes from Matthew Betham MS: https://tunearch.org/wiki/EarlofMoira%27sWelcometoScotland(The) +X+X+X+X+ 1880s: Loudon’s Bonnie Woods and Braes “Old Gaelic Air” from David Glen's Collection of Highland Bagpipe Music, Book 4 https://web.archive.org/web/20211017213952/https://ceolsean.net/content/RobRam/Book02/Book02%2014.pdf +X+X+ War or Peace 1784: Coma Leam, coma leam cogadh no sith_Alike to me peace or War, The Gathering of the Clans from Patrick MacDonald’s Collection of Highland Vocal Airs: https://www.google.com/books/edition/ACollectionofHighlandVocalAirsTow/XCvLHYWLkFcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA43&printsec=frontcover +X+X+ 1820s: Cogadh na Sith from Donald MacDonald Manuscript https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/macdonald/ +X+X+ 1890s: War or Peace from David Glen’s Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd Book 5 https://web.archive.org/web/20240813223119/https://ceolsean.net/content/GlenPio/Book05/Book05%2014a.pdf +X+X+ Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA
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