Competitors in the Irish Jig during the 2022 Lonach Highland Gathering & Games at Bellabeg in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This is one of Scotland’s most iconic traditional summer events and is held on the forth Saturday in August each year. The Irish Jig is one of the Scottish National Dances for competitions, an energetic dance featuring lots of fist shaking and skirt flouncing among female competitors. It is a parody of Irish dancing and one of the two Scottish National dances that has