Dub, King of Scotland

Dub mac Maíl Coluim (Modern Gaelic: Dubh mac Mhaoil Chaluim), sometimes anglicised as Duff MacMalcolm, called Dén, "the Vehement" and Niger, "the Black" (died 967) was king of Alba. He was son of Malcolm I (Máel Coluim mac Domnaill) and succeeded to the throne when Indulf (Ildulb mac Causantín) was killed in 962.

While later chroniclers such as John of Fordun supplied a great deal of information on Dub's life and reign, including tales of witchcraft and treason, almost all of which are rejected by modern historians. There are very few sources for the reign of Dub, of which the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba and a single entry in the Annals of Ulster are the closest to contemporary.

The Chronicle records that during Dub's reign bishop Fothach, most likely bishop of St Andrews or of Dunkeld, died. The remaining report is of a battle between Dub and Cuilén, son of king Ildulb. Dub won the battle, fought "upon the ridge of Crup", in which Duchad, abbot of Dunkeld, sometimes supposed to be an ancestor of Crínán of Dunkeld, and Dubdon, the mormaer of Atholl, died.

Dubh (ar thitim Shrebenice, 11ú Iúil, 1995)

Dubh (ar thitim Shrebenice, 11ú Iúil, 1995) also known as Black (on the fall of Srebrenica, 11 July, 1995), is a poem by Irish poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill about the Srebrenica massacre, the July 1995 killing of an estimated 8,000 Bosniak men and boys, as well as the expulsion of 25,000–30,000 refugees in the area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić during the Bosnian War. Dubh relates Ní Dhomhnaill's reaction to the massacre. Her original version and a translation by Paul Muldoon are included in An Leabhar Mòr, published in 2008.

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