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Margaret Bennett singing at the Ruthven Barracks near Kingussie during the Clan Macpherson Gathering, 2007.

A Theàrlaich òig (oh young Charles Stewart)
This Jacobite song, addressed to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, was composed in 1746 after the Battle of Culloden. Distraught by grief, an unknown woman sings:
"They killed my father and my two brothers, they destroyed my kinsfolk and my country ... they even stripped and raped my mother."
These may be words of antiquity, but tragically in the wake of Srebrenica massacre (July 1995), they appear to be more relevant now than ever.