Some details have finally been released about a clan event happening in 2014 as part of the Homecoming Scotland 2014 celebrations.
The original dates of 11 – 13 July, 2014 announced have now changed, and the revised plan is to centre a general clan gathering directly around the Bannockburn 700th Anniversary activities in the last weekend of June (28 – 30, 2014).
You can keep fully up-to-date with everything that’s happening so far at our new Clans2014 site at clans2014.com.

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Clan members outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh at the Clan Convention

At a speech given to a gathering of chiefs at this years Gathering, Robert McWilliam president emeritus of the Council of Scottish Clans and Associations, said that Scotland’s Clans must turn to social networking websites such as facebook and twitter to increase their ranks in the 21st Century.

Holyrood was host to the Clan Covention with more than 100 Clan Chiefs taking part in the debate. This is the first time in recorded history so many chiefs have been assembled in one place. The purpose for this was to debate the Clan systems future and their roles within it.

Mr McWilliam from the US told the other chiefs that he had a message from American Scots that they need to use modern forms of communication.

“That would reach a different group of people,” he argued. “If you wanted to reach young people, you get your name in front of them on Facebook.”

Donald MacLaren, chief of Clan MacLaren, said: “A minority of chiefs think this is not for them. It’s a great disappointment for those who look upon them as the head of their family.”

He said some thought the clan system moribund since the mid-18th Century, but he disagreed and insisted it still had a future. North America alone has a clan membership exceeding 100,000.

What do you think? Are Clan Societies doing enough to communicate to a younger audience?

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Planning to attend the Gathering this summer?  Best not to bring your claymore unless you want to face up to 2 years in jail.  Official warnings have apparently been posted on the Gathering website advising people not to turn up with anything more lethal than a sgian-dubh and no brandishing!  Of course many people will be coming from oversees and may have problems getting even a sgian-dubh through customs.

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