This September, I’ll be teaching again on the Creative Connections online course for Tobar an Dualchais. It’s always fun to meet the participants – a mix of artists, musicians, educators, writers, ...

This September, I’ll be teaching again on the Creative Connections online course for Tobar an Dualchais. It’s always fun to meet the participants – a mix of artists, musicians,… ...

Gaelic psalmody is a beautiful, haunting form of music which is unique to the Scots Gaelic speaking world, now mostly within West Highlands and Western Isles and the Gaelic diaspora in our major ...

Ryan Dziadowic, originally from Poland but now living in Grimsay, looks at the traditional Gaelic concept of dùthchas and what it means in the modern world….. Dùthchas – a Gaelic word which carries so ...

Folklorist Frances Wilkins on the beauty of a Gaelic Christmas hymn and the tales of emigration which lie behind it…… Emigration, whether forced or voluntary, by ...

In 2006, work started on building the first wind farm on Skye. On moorland belonging to MacLeod Estate, a few miles south east of Dunvegan, the original Ben Aketil project started generating ...

Jo Wawrzyczek, development officer for Kyle and Lochalsh Community Trust at last year’s open day at the former Skye Bridge toll office. Investment in Skye’s infrastructure is a key issue identified by ...

My auntie Mairi Flòraidh MacInnes who has lived all her life in Eriskay was saying to me recently as we chatted on the phone, “Chan eil mi cinnteach cò às a thog thu fighe, chan fhaca mi riamh do ...

Liam Alastair Crouse, a PhD student at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI, considers the impact of sea-level rise in South Uist, where he currently lives, through the lens of recordings available on Tobar an ...

A story appeared in the national press last week revealing that the Isle of Skye was the most joyful tourism experience in Scotland. Fittingly, this conclusion was reached through research which used ...

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An investigation by the Ferret revealed that Corin Smith (pictured) had been placed under surveillance at the request of the Scottish Salmon Company. One of Scotland’s biggest fish farm companies ...