You'll mind the one, with the wee garden that used to be the kailyard."

I came down behind the house, past the kailyard, and so came upon the arbor that you built.

As a contrast, or perhaps a reaction to this, an entirely different literary "school" erupted in the late 19th century: the Kailyard.

Philip Robinson's (born 1946) writing has been described as verging on "post-modern kailyard".

"She gives them all the cast-off truck from the kailyard, till ye'd think they'd burst."

Along with Tartanry, Kailyard has come to represent a "cultural sub-nationalism".

Kailyard Blues (1999)

Grabbing her by the elbow, he hustled her off through the kailyard gate, his shoulders hunched in self-consciousness.

By the middle of the 19th century the Kailyard school of prose had become the dominant literary genre, overtaking poetry.

It is certainly an unusual novel for its time when the Scottish Kailyard school of writing was still at its height ."

The plots of land, or crofts, had room for a longhouse with a byre at one end, outbuildings, and a kitchen garden or kailyard.

Aldersyde served as a model for her later "Kailyard" writings as well as those of regional middle class life and light romance novels.

One can say the Kailyard literature, and the garish symbols of Tartanry, fortified each other and became a sort of substitute for nationalism.

The parochialism of the Kailyard, and the myths of an irreversible past of the Tartanry, came to represent a politically impotent nationalism.

A whole school of 19th-century Scottish fiction is named for the kailyard - Scottish for cabbage patch - and scones have a much longer, more distinguished pedigree.

The inn garden descends in terraces to the river; stable-yard, kailyard, orchard, and a space of lawn, fringed with rushes and embellished with a green arbour.

Besides the lovely little ornamental garden the house had a small herb garden and an immense kitchen garden or kailyard that supplied leeks, cabbages and vegetable marrows.

If nothing else, the deer he had shot would have gone long since, with all the extra mouths to feed, and there would be precious little from the kailyard at this time of year.

I knew there was a barn and a shed for silage; these must be to the other side of the house, with the farm's granary and the henyard, kailyard, and disused chapel.

The name derived from Ian Maclaren's 1894 book Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush whose title alludes to the Jacobite song "There grows a bonnie brier bush in our Kailyard".

As on all previous arrivals, our presence was heralded by the barking of a miscellaneous swarm of dogs, who galloped out of hedge and field and kailyard, yapping first with alarm, and then with joy.

Scots Word of the Season: Kailyard, Maggie Scott, Lecturer in English Language, University of Salford, published in The Bottle Imp ezine by the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.

The sentimental Kailyard tradition of J. M. Barrie and George MacDonald, of those that continued to pursue Scottish topics at the end of the nineteenth century, was seen by Tom Nairn as "sub-romantic".

The success of J. M. Barrie and the Kailyard school of sentimental, homey writing had created a demand for stories in Lowland Scots, when Crockett published his successful story of The Stickit Minister during 1893.

Writers of the Kailyard school included J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan), Ian Maclaren, J. J. Bell, George MacDonald, Gabriel Setoun and S. R. Crockett.

City Wall from Phoenix Tower to Kaleyard Gate.

In the 13th century the monks of St Werburgh's Abbey had developed a vegetable garden (known as the kaleyard) outside the city walls.

The walk also crosses Kaleyard Gate on the eastern section of the walls, and passes the Recorder's Steps on the south section.