Herring Girls, Souvenir of Great Yarmouth English
In 2012 playwright Eric J MacDonald of Uig, Isle of Lewis, wrote the monologue, A Souvenir of Great Yarmouth. The theme is the life of the young Isle of Lewis women, who used to gut, salt and pack herring barrels…
Sabaist Mhor Wick
This story is Sabaist Mhor Wick. The legendary week of fighting during the herring fishing season. This is thought to have been one hundred and fifty years ago. The military were called in to quell the unrest, resulting in arrests…
Ishbal Nighean Dhomhnaill Ban
I just love beul aithris stories, from Isle of Lewis Gaelic oral tradition. It is rare to have the opportunity to perform them for an audience nowadays. Therfore, I have recorded five stories because of the richness of the language…
Crofting Livestock and Litter Isle of Lewis
On the way from Scalpay, a brown cow I did spy Chewing the cud happily, as I whizzed by The butt of a plastic litre bottle protruding from her teeth My errand not so important now, the car came to…
Gaelic Film P E Smith Poet Uig Check Film?
Film Peigi Oigrig far a Cnìp, Uig, Leòdhais ag innse mar a thug bràthar a seanair dhi gìt a’ bhàrdachd agus e air leabaidh a bhais. Taigh Fasgaidh Erista, Uig Media 2011 (5 mionaidean). Bha Peigi na bard agus na…
Prisoners of War 51st Division St Valery Community Publication
St Valery Memories 2018 is 44 page publication with research on Prisoners of War captured in the 51 St Division, at St Valery-en-Caux on 12th June 1940. It includes accounts given by the Prisoners of War from the Isle of…
Minecraft are re-building St Kilda
Rebuild St Kilda with Minecraft The hugely popular Minecraft Game came to town developing a new software rebuilding St Kilda
Dementia, first language and reminiscence
A Cows and Boats
Care Home Residents Island Culture – Wool Extravaganza
Working on the Arora Dementia Friendly Project today with the talented Mary Smith, her spinning wheel and her extensive wool craft kit, in a Stornoway care home.
Crofting Life Isle of Lewis Achmore-moorland placenames
If you were brought up on a croft, in the Hebrides in the 1960s and 70s, the moorland was very much part of your extended landscape.
