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The first Christian missionaries in Pictland are thought to have come from Ireland in the early sixth century. Prominent among them was a disciple of St Bridget of Kildare called Darlugdach, who built a church at Abernethy under the patronage of the Pictish King Nechtan. St Ninian too worked among the Picts and made many converts, but it was St Columba who played the most decisive role in the conversion of Pictland. From his monastery on Iona, Columba organised missions and travelled tirelessly to bring Christianity to the Picts, his conversion of the pagan King Brude being one of the key events of Scottish history.

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Michael Steven Sheane is now in his seventies, and was educated mainly at Orange's Academy, Belfast, and attended Trinity College, Dublin. Orange's Academy was a small private school of mixed Catholics and Protestants in the centre of the city. A lot of his time was spent living in Ballygally on the Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland. In the past he has contributed widely to press, radio and television in Ulster. He spent six years at BRMB Radio, Birmingham where he was Ireland political correspondent. Michael is presently researching books and articles on selected areas of Scotland that in the past have been connected with the North of Ireland.

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