Talk:Clan MacIntyre

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I have simply thrown up some of the info about the clan that I have, and intend to pretty it up and add to it sometime in the next couple of days when I have time. Feel free to pretty it up and add info and pics (specifically I think a pic of the tartan and crest would be best. Possibly a link to a track of the pipes would be good as well). I would also like to tie it into the Scottish Clans page and other relevant ones.Etemenanki 14:25, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Families

I believe that some note should be made of the member families of thts clan--Whytecypress 00:07, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

While we do "PWN" all others, I think we can leave it out of the article since it is common knowledge.--Etemenanki 03:21, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Errors regarding the Clan during the '45?

I just wanted to note that I think there is a factual error in this page. Where there is discussion of the '45 and the MacIntyres role in it, it says that the Chief would have fought for the Stewarts except for the influence of his campbell wife and neighbors (who probably would have killed him and most of his clan had they done so). It then goes on to say that many of his clansmen slipped away and fought for the hanoverians at Falkirk under the great bard Duncan Ban MacIntyre. While Duncan certainly fought for/with the english, I've never hard this reference to clansman slipping away and fighting under him. He was a Gaelic bard, not a clan chief, I suspect no one fought under him, but perhaps with him. But most importantly, I think this actually should be two seperate ideas, one, that yes, Duncan did fight with the english side, and two, that while the MacIntyre chief couldn't fight for Charles Edward Stuart, and refrained, probably despite his inclination, in order to save his clan, he allowed/tolerated (with a wink) many of his clansmen to slip away and fight for the Stuarts, particularly at Culloden, many of them in the Stewart of Appin regiment. I think this is a mistake because the language he uses, that they slipped away, is almost word for word the language used by many clan histories in reference to the Cheif allowing clansmen to slip away and fight for the Stuarts. Plus it makes more sense for the clansmen to have to slip away to fight for the Stuarts, because the Chief was trying to maintain the pretense of not supporting the Stuarts. I have some published histories documenting this that I will try to dig up and put up references, but for now my hope is that the original author might see this and check to see if indeed he made a mistake. Thanks, Micum MacIntyre —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.169.149.156 (talk) 20:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)