Willie Macdonald reads out extracts from the emotionally intense poetry of the North Uist bard Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, and discusses them in Gaelic and English. The conversation moves on to the impact on families of the losses suffered in the First…
Willie Macdonald reads out extracts from the emotionally intense poetry of the North Uist bard Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, and discusses them in Gaelic and English. The conversation moves on to the impact on families of the losses suffered in the First…
MaryBell MacIntyre from Sgoil Lionacleit talks in Gaelic to Gordon Wells about what a group of school students learnt from a visit to First World War sites, and how they were able to share their thoughts and experiences with community members back in…
MaryBell MacIntyre from Sgoil Lionacleit talks in Gaelic to Gordon Wells about what a group of school students learnt from a visit to First World War sites, and how they were able to share their thoughts and experiences with community members back in…
Unival, a small, roughly-built, square passage grave lies on an elevated plateau on the hill of the same name, and, as Beveridge noted, carries the Gaelic name, ‘Leacach an Tigh Chloiche’, or ‘place of slabs of the stone house’. Excavated by Sir…
Iain Crawford, a passionate archaeologist and ethnographer, influenced by the writings of Beveridge, decided to concentrate his searches in the 1960s on sites that might have been continuously inhabited over a very long period and yet were still…