| Hugh MacDiarmid, junking the Burns tradition and the kailyard, turned to the etymological dictionary to concoct 'plastic Scots', in Edwin Muir's dismissive phrase. |
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| Despite the mawkish excesses of the kailyard, RL Stevenson showed it was possible to use Scots easily and without sentimentality and in the next century Robert Garioch made it a vehicle for great themes. |
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| It would rid us of our obsession with tartanry and Balmorality, and replace the kailyard fantasies with a much deeper cultural grounding. |
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| No one was more savagely satirical of small-town Scotland and the Kailyard literature it spawned than he was. |
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| Kailyard school, late 19th-century movement in Scottish fiction characterized by a sentimental idealization of humble village life. |
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| Then reward yourself with sumptuous dishes in the hotel's signature restaurant The Kailyard by Nick Nairn. |
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| The added wow factor for foodies is Nick Nairn has his own restaurant within the hotel, The Kailyard by Nick Nairn. |
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| The Kailyard literature, and the garish symbols of Tartanry, fortified each other and became a sort of substitute for nationalism. |
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| Barrie and other members of the Kailyard school like Ian Maclaren also wrote in Scots or used it in dialogue. |
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| By the middle of the 19th century the Kailyard school of prose had become the dominant literary genre, overtaking poetry. |
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