Talk:Blantyre mining disaster

Renaming?
See Category talk:Mining disasters for a discussion on whether to rename this and similar articles to remove the capitalisation. Z iggurat 21:36, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Wrong Macdonald referenced
I removed the Wikilink: the reference in the article was to Alexander Macdonald, and Alexander Macdonald leads to Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross, died 1449. Alexander MacDonald (capital "D" in the surname) leads to someone who died in 1770. The man you want to reference ("president of the Miners' National Association and a former miner") is not in Wikipedia to date ... I think that this man was active in Glasgow and Renfrewshire and Ayrshire, wrote articles for the Glasgow "Sentinel", and traveled to the US, visiting Braidwood, Illinois in 1867 (which he noted had a large number of Scottish miners). I've seen an American reference to him as Alexander McDonald (no "a" in surname, and using a capital "D"), but a mistake in spelling is possible by someone. Notuncurious (talk) 05:26, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

External links modified
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Music
Is it worth noting that the Dubliners recorded 'The Blantyre Explosion', too? It's on their album 'A Parcel of Rogues' from 1976, i.e. long before Christy Moore's version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Parcel_of_Rogues_(album) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.79.136.252 (talk) 08:41, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

There's also a song called 'The Blantyre Explosion' (I'm assuming it's the same song) recorded by the Battlefield Band and Christine Primrose. 92.6.17.177 (talk) 13:01, 12 May 2021 (UTC)