Visit to the Isle of Arran Museum
Visit to the Isle of Arran I visited the lovely Isle of Arran recently for the first time at short notice.
Psalms in Boats Isle of Lewis Tradfest 2017
The Psalmboat project is a multi-arts volunteer community project centred on Loch Erisort, Lochs, Isle of Lewis. The Psalmboat community is sharing stories of travel by sea to church services in the past, and in the present we are singing psalms…
The Old New Year 12th January The Clavie and Oidhche Calainn
Blowing on the Embers The Oidhche Challain custom of circling, in a sunwise direction, the fire in each home on the evening prior to 12th of January, the Old New Year’s Day, no longer happens regularly in the Isle of…
Crofting life in Isle of Lewis Uig – The Sheep Gathering
Crofting Life and gathering sheep in Uig, Isle of Lewis Preparation for a Lewis Fank Day, now means ensuring that quads and mobile phones are ‘topped’ up. In most areas, gone are the long days of trekking the moor on…
Crofting Life in Isle of Lewis Uig -The Bulls
Crofting life in Uig Isle of Lewis involved looking after cattle and towing a bull to an offshore island once a year. Every crofting family living in the Outer Hebrides, were dependent on their own cow to provide milk, butter…
Fishing in Kirkibost, Great Bernera, The Hebrides
Fishing in Kirkibost, Great Bernera Generations of fishermen landed their catch at the pier in Kirkibost in Great Bernera.The rich fishing grounds are now depleted and the pier used only by two or three small local boats, fishing for crab…
Life in Bosta, Great Bernera, The Hebrides
Bòstadh The winding single track road to Bòstadh takes you as far west as you can get in Great Bernera. The white shell sand beach draws families with young children, partying teenagers and those reflecting on life and relationships, while…
Gaelic -The language of the Hearth
I am working on Arora the Dementia Friendly Community Project this month. Working on this project I am the privileged recipient of all kinds of personal stories and cultural treasures, which spill out instantly between the handshake and island Gaelic…
Pipe Major Peter Macleod Aird Uig Heritage blog
Pipe Major Peter Roderick Macleod, Aird Uig / Behind the Conundrum At each piping recital, accordion or melodeon evening on the island of Lewis. At least a couple of the following tunes are played and recognised as being from the…
Bho Sgaile Suaibheabhal Gaelic Monologue Isle of Lewis 2015-Check sound files
Bho Sgaile Suaineabhal a monologue written by Uig writer Eric J MacDonald was performed in Gaelic and in English as Cucumber Sandwich during 2013-2015.
