{"id":7444,"date":"2025-08-19T14:35:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:35:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:35:36","slug":"duncan-ban-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2025\/08\/19\/duncan-ban-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan Ban in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/duncan-ban-qr-portrait-pdf-linked.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/allan2inqrjpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sonorous verse of Duncan Ban MacIntyre can now be heard on your phone any time you visit the Scottish Poetry Rose Garden in Glasgow&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgow.gov.uk\/article\/4189\/Queen-s-Park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen&#8217;s Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofqueensparkglasgow.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friends of Queen&#8217;s Park<\/a> invited Alan Riach and Allan MacDonald to mark his 300th anniversary <a href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2024\/03\/27\/the-composer-duncan-ban-macintyre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a>, and they provided a remarkable open air music and poetry double act in the garden, presenting extracts both in the original Gaelic and in English translation.<\/p>\n<p>Island Voices were on hand to film <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zGaBQguhsH8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the event<\/a>, and we&#8217;re delighted that visitors can now access the recording in situ through these displayed <a href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/duncan-ban-qr-portrait-pdf-linked.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QR codes<\/a>, and so get a taste again of a magical occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Queen&#8217;s Park will be humming again with snippets of Moladh Beinn D\u00f2bhrain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sonorous verse of Duncan Ban MacIntyre can now be heard on your phone any time you visit the Scottish Poetry Rose Garden in Glasgow&#8217;s Queen&#8217;s Park. Friends of Queen&#8217;s Park invited Alan Riach and Allan MacDonald to mark his 300th anniversary last year, and they provided a remarkable open air music and poetry double &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2025\/08\/19\/duncan-ban-in-the-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duncan Ban in the Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[34,40,42,45,77],"class_list":["post-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-duncan-ban-macintyre","tag-gaelic","tag-gaidhlig","tag-heritage","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}