History
In the 1980s, Siol nan Gaidheal produced a detailed magazine called Firinn Albannach (Truth of Scotland), which is described as having a rhetoric which was "anti-communist, neo-fascist and sometimes violent in tone".
Jackie Stokes re-established Siol nan Gaidheal in 1997, concentrating mainly on the website and its forum. It was during this period that chapters were set up in the United States of America and in Canada as a focus for the Scottish diaspora in North America. After Stokes's death on 24 July 2001, the projects carried out by SnG have been scaled down, with the website in "Alba" (Scotland) and those in the US and Canada becoming the main focus for SnG members and supporters and other nationalists around the world.
In May 2006, SnG held its first Ard Fhèis (festival) in 14 years, in Dalwhinnie, Scotland.
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