Speed Bonnie Boat: A Tale from Scottish History Inspired by the Skye Boat Song (Picture Kelpies: Traditional Scottish Tales)

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George Donaldson of Celtic Thunder sang it in the 2015 show "Heritage" (arr. Phil Coulter) and on the CD and DVD of the same name. Celtic Thunder Limited. USA Sony Music Entertainment.

Bear McCreary adapted the song as the opening titles of the 2014 TV series Outlander, sung by Raya Yarbrough, changing the text of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "Sing Me a Song of a Lad That Is Gone" (1892) to " Lass" to fit the story. [3] [13] Crucially, the Floris Books version does not end on the battlefield. Instead the reader is left with a sense of calm and peace as they see the young Stuart Prince safe out of harm’s way on the Isle of Skye. The song was played by pipers as the coffin of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II travelled up the Long Walk to Windsor Castle on 19 September 2022. Media comment included speculation that this was to 'put to rest' the conflict between the Jacobite and Hannoverian houses. [ citation needed]Nevertheless, this new appetite for all things Jacobite is not restricted to film and TV. This Spring, Edinburgh-based Floris Books are publishing a new picture book inspired by the Skye Boat Song. Part of the Traditional Scottish Tales series, Italian artist Alfredo Belli has beautifully illustrated this new version, which introduces children to the history of the last Stuart Prince and the ’45.

In the 1987 horror movie, It's Alive III: Island of the Alive, the main character played by Michael Moriarty sings the song on board a boat with crew members at 46 mins 17 secs. You can listen to a version of the song here, sung by traditional Gaelic singer, Catherine Tinney. https://booksfromscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CT-Skye-Boat-Song.mp3The Skye Boat Song", by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in the collection Songs of Travel and Other Verses, Project Gutenberg a b c "10 facts about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites". History Extra. Immediate Media Company. 12 May 2016 . Retrieved 12 October 2021. . Songs of the North (20th edition: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project. Calum Kennedy included a version on Songs of Scotland and Ireland (Beltona 1971), and Rod Stewart recorded two versions of the song with The Atlantic Crossing Drum & Pipe Band during the sessions for Atlantic Crossing between 1974 and 1975. They were given an official release on the deluxe re-release of the album in 2009.