It is the 300^th anniversary of the 1715 Jacobite uprising, and projected onto the Glencoe highlands scenery is a video of Sir Walter Scott’s little-known poem “On the Massacre of Glencoe.”

The Jacobite uprising, which sought to put James Edward Stuart on the throne, came about twenty three years after government soldiers murdered seventy people for alleged “treason” against the then-new Protestant monarchs, William and Mary.

“We felt it was important to mark the Massacre of Glencoe and the part it played in the 1715 Jacobite uprising,” said Steven McOnnachie, Director of Double Take Projections, who added that he wanted to “raise awareness of this chapter in Scotland’s history” with the videoed poem.

Coinciding with the film event is an exhibition at the National Library of Scotland called “Game of Crowns,” which tells the story through original artifacts of the time, including letters, manuscripts, books, maps, and portraits. Included among the documents is the disturbing handwritten order for the Massacre, which begins, “You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the McDonalds of Glencoe, and put all to the sword under seventy.”

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