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Sluagh dhaoine air taobh a-muigh Taigh Bhaile Inbhir Nis aig Iubaili Daoimein na Ban-rìgh Bhictoria, 22 Ògmhios 1897. Tha mòran dhaoine ann an àite gu math beag is tha iad a' seinn is ag èisdeachd ri òraidean o dhaoine urramach on sgìre.
Chumadh cuimhneachain ionadail airson Iubaili Daoimein na Ban-rìgh Bhictoria anns gach coimhearsnachd ann am Breatainn, cha mhòr. Chaidh a chuimhneachadh air feadh Iompaireachd Bhreatainn cuideachd. Thàinig comuinn ionadail, buidhnean agus daoine fa leth còmhla gus trì fichead bliadhna na Ban-rìgh air an rìgh-chathair a chomharrachadh. B' e àm a bha seo nuair a chaidh mòran charraighean cuimhne, tallaichean baile agus togalaichean a thogail
Faodar an dealbh seo a cheannach.
Airson tuilleadh fiosrachaidh mu cheannach is prìsean, cuir post-d gu: Highland Photographic Archive

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Litir o Sheumas Caimbeul à Lunnainn gu a phàrantan. 'S e ainm athar, Alasdair Caimbeul à Dailcros, a th'air an litir. Tha Seumas ann an deagh shlàinte is tha e air obair gu math comhartail fhaighinn mar ghille-coise do dhuin-uasal òg. Tha iad an dòchas a dhol gu sgìre dhùthchail, mu 100 mìle à Lunnainn, airson trì no ceithir mìosan.
Tha Seumas a' moladh gun cum a phàrantan a bhràthair aig an sgoil greis bheag fhathast, ma ghabhas sin dèanamh. Tha e a' crìochnachadh le bhith ag ràdh nach eil dad sònraichte aige ri innse dhaibh, ach gu bheil na Frangaich a' bagradh ionnsaigh a' dhèanamh.
Thòisich na Cogaidhean Napoleonach ann an 1803. Bha Napoleon an dòchas gum faigheadh e làmh an uachdar air An Roinn Eòrpa, ach chaill e aig Blàr Waterloo ann an 1815


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Rannsachadh mu fhearrann Bharraigh a cheannach
19 An Dùbhlachd 2012 Ùraichte aig Ùraichte aig
Leanaidh iomart ann am Barraigh 's Bhatarsaigh smachd fhaighinn air an fhearann dhan choimhearsnachd.
Bha coinneamhan ann oidhche Luain far an deach aontachadh gluasad air adhart leis a' phròiseas.
Aig coinneamh ann am Bàgh a' Chaisteil chaidh taic a chur ri rannsachadh a dhèanamh air a' chùis, 's chuir muinntir Bhatarsaigh taic aig a' choinneimh aca-san, ris an ath cheum a ghabhail.
Buinnidh am fearann an-dràsta do Riaghaltas na h-Alba.
Tha an aithris seo aig Doneil MacLeòid.


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Beathag: Uill... aig toiseach gnothaich, saoilidh mi gum b'fhiach dhuinn bhruidhinn mu dheidhinn a' bhlog seo. Tha mi den bheachd gum bi e nas fheumaile dhomsa! Tha deagh Ghàidhlig agaibhse a cheana. Tha mise coltach ris a' bhalaiste anns a' bhàta!
Cam: Obh, chan eil, a charaid. Cha chreid mi nach eil sgioba triùir ann anns a' bhàta seo. Tha neach-ionnsachaidh ùr a th'annad (gu dearbh, tha sinn uile 'nar luchd-ionnsachaidh), ach tha thusa ag ionnsachadh gu luath. Cùin' a thòisich thu Gàidhlig ionnsachadh agus carson?
Beathag: 'S e bàta math a th'ann an seo, nach e? Chan eil aoidean ann fhathast -- agus tha i a' seòladh gu math...
Tha mi air a bhith ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig fad ceithir mìosan, a Cham. Carson? 'S e ceist inntinneach a th'innte! A dh'innse na fìrinn, tha mi a' smaoineachadh gun robh mi beagan an-fhoiseil... Bha an tràchdas agam crìochnaichte agus cheumnaich mi bhon oilthigh. Agus cha robh mo mhac na naoidhean tuilleadh 's mar sin chuir mi romham beagan Gàidhlig ionnsachadh. Bha mi airson rudeigin ùr ionnsachadh.
Ru-ra: An ann ach fad ceithir mìosan a tha thu air a bhith ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig, a Bheathag? Tha sàr Ghàidhlig agad. Bidh thusa a' toirt cuideachadh Gàidhlig dhomhsa agus do Cham.
Thoisich mise ri Gàidhlig ionnsachadh o chionns gu bheil mòran ainmean-aite Gàidhlig ann am Muile agus bha mi airson tuigsinn dè chiallaich iad.
Agus, a Cham, carson a thòisich thusa ri Gàidhlig ionnsachadh?
Cam: Uill, ‘s ann a chunnaic mi leabhar, o chionn seachd bliadhna, ann an leabharlann. ‘S e leabhar làn òran luaidh a bh'ann. Chòrd na h-òrain seo gu math rium ‘s bha mi ag iarraidh gan leughadh anns a' Ghàidhig seach Beurla. An deidh sin, fhuair mi "Cothrom Ionnsachaidh" le Ronald Black 'is thoisich mi air Gàidhlig ionnsachadh cho luath 's bha agam!
Beathag: Bha mise agus mo chèile ann an "taigh dubh" anns an t-Eilean Sgitheanach mu choig bliadhna air ais. Cha b' e croit a bha anns an taigh dubh idir; b' e taigh-tasgaidh a bh'ann. Ach bha seann chroitear a' tighinn air chèilidh air nighean a bha ag obair anns an taigh-tasgaidh. 'S dòcha gur am bodach a seanair. Bha Gàidhlig àlainn aige -- agus aicese cuideachd. Bha e dìreach mìorbhaileach ga chluinntinn. Bha e a' còrdadh rium glan.
A bheil cuimhne agaibh nuair a bha sibh a' cluinntinn na Gàidhlig a' chiad àm no a' faicinn dhaoine a' bruidhinn na Gàidhlig airson a' chiad uair?
Cam: Bha mi air Gàidhlig a chluintinn air teipichean, co-dhiù, ach cha chuala mi Gàidhig beò gus an robh mi ann an Inbhir Nis sia bliadhna air ais. Bha mi ‘nam shuidhe air bus, ‘is chuala mi nighean òg a' bruidhinn ris an dràibhear. An toiseach, cha b'urrainn dhomh ga tuigsinn idir, ach an uair sin, chuala mi rudeigin mar: aig cairteal gu trì. Obh nach robh mi aoibhneach!
Ru-ra: Ge-tà chan eil Gàidhlig aig mòran daoine an-seo, bidh duine sam bidh daonnan a’ gabhail òran Gàidhlig aig cèilidhean agus ‘s ann air a h-uile turas a their glaodhaire na h-aiseige: “Tha an sgiobair agus an sgioba a' cur failt' oirbh air bord am bàt-aiseig 'An t-Eilean Muileach'. Tha sinn an dòchas gun còrd an turas ribh.”
Sin agaibh e a-nochd! Oidhche mhath!


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- Duncan Macpherson
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- baile
Am Ploc
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Chaidh an dealbh seo den Phloc a thogail thar an Òib, 's dòcha aig Creag nan Gàradh. Chaidh Am Ploc a dhealbhadh mar bhaile ùr do Mhorair Shìophoirt mu 1794. Thug an sealbhadair ùr a bh' aig an oighreachd ann an 1801, Sir Ùisdean Innes, taighean do na màladairean aige a chaidh fhuadach an seo. Airson iomadh bliadhna, bha a' mhòr-chuid den teachd-a-steach aca a' tighinn o thogail bhàtaichean is iasgach. Ann an 1851, cheannaich Sir Alasdair MacMhathain Oighreachd Loch Aillse, is thog e Caisteal Dhùn na Creige an dèidh sin, a' coimhead thar a' bhàigh seo. 'S e an sgoil, anns a' mheadhan, is an eaglais Shaor Aonaichte, air an robh an 'Teampall Staoin', an dà thogalach as motha san dealbh. Thog R.R. Speirs à Glaschu i de dh'iarann preasach mu 1910, is chaidh a leagail anns na 1970an
Faodar an dealbh seo a cheannach.
Airson tuilleadh fiosrachaidh mu cheannach is prìsean, cuir post-d gu: Skye and Lochalsh Archives
Faodar an dealbh seo a cheannach.
Airson tuilleadh fiosrachaidh mu cheannach is prìsean, cuir post-d gu: Skye and Lochalsh Archives


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Published: 30 May 2018
Bidh Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail na bliadhna-sa a’ tilleadh gu Dùn Omhain. Mar sin, ghabh mi fhèin agus mo cho-obraiche, Seonag NicAnndrais chun an rathaid an t-seachdain a chaidh, le ‘Cuairt a’ Mhòid’; a’ tadhal air sgoiltean sgìre Dhùn Omhain is Earra Ghàidheal. Chuir sinn seachad trì là a’ bruidhinn ri sgoilearan bho 7 sgoiltean. Bidh sinn a’ tilleadh aig toiseach na h-ath mhìos airson tadhal air sgoiltean eile anns an sgìre.
Chaidh ‘Cuairt a’ Mhòid’ a stèidheachadh an toiseach san Òban ann an 2015. A h-uile bliadhna bhon uairsin, tha sinn air a bhith a’ tadhal air sgoiltean anns na sgìrean far a bheil am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail ga chumail. ‘S e a bhith a’ brosnachadh chloinne gus pàirt a ghabhail sa Mhòd, prìomh àmais na h-iomairte. Tha Cuairt a’ Mhòid air a bhith gu math soirbheachail ann a bhith a’ piobrachadh chloinne gus ùidh san fhèis ath-bheothachadh a-measg fharpaisich òg.
Tha e cudromach gu bheil òigridh sgìre Dhùn Omhain a’ faireachdainn nam pàirt mhòr dhe na bhios a’ dol anns a’ bhaile aca fhèin san Dàmhair, thoireadh, aig deireadh an là, ‘s e am Mòd aca fhèin a th’ ann. Faodaidh iad sin a dhèanamh le bhith a’ feuchainn air cuid dhe na farpaisean. Ach, mas e agus nach eil iad airson sin a dheànamh, bidh iomadh cothrom eile anns am faod iad pàirt a ghabhail anns a’ Mhòd. Bidh bùithean-obrach, consairtean, seiseanan-ciùil is caismeachdan a’ dol, ‘s gu dearbha bi fàilte romhpa a bhith an làthair.
‘S e tha fainear dhuinne, a thaobh sgeama ‘Cuairt a Mhòid ‘ ach aire chloinne a tharraing gu na Mòdan Ionadail agus Nàiseanta, ann an dòigh aotrom, spòrsail agus inntinneach. Thathas an dòchas gun tog seo aire òganaich ann an cànan agus cultar na Gàidhlig agus gum bi na Mòdan mar mheadhan a thaobh sgilean-ciùil agus cànain a leasachadh. Bhiodh e na thlachd dha-rìribh riochdachadh mòr bho sgìre Dhùn Omhain fhèin fhaicinn a’ gabhail pàirt sa Mhòd am-bliadhna, gu sònraichte an dèidh na chualas de thàlant ann an sgoiltean na sgìre an t-seachdain a chaidh. Thèid Cuairt a’ Mhòid a thadhal air sgoiltean cho fad is farsaing ri Taigh na Bruaich, Srath Chura, Grianaig agus Gleann Da-Ruail. Bithear a’ tadhal air 12 sgoiltean uile gu lèir mus bi an cuairt seachad.
A thuilleadh air an seo, tha obair chudromach eile a’ dol air adhart ann an sgoiltean na sgìre an-dràsta tron sgeama ‘Acadamaidh a’ Mhòid’. Tha An Comunn Gàidhealach air a bhith ag obair còmhla ri Fèisean nan Gàidheal agus Fèisgoil gus luchd-teagasg a chur an luib nan sgoiltean mar thaic airson nam Mòdan. Bidh clann-sgoile a’ faighinn oideachadh le bhith ag ionnsachadh an cuid phìosan airson a’ Mhòid ‘s thathas an dòchas gun cuir an sgeama ri àrdachadh àireamhan fharpisich ‘s gum bi làn-riochdachadh ann bhon sgìre air fad.
Mar a bhios fios aig gu leòr, mar phàirt de phrògram tachartasan Riaghaltas na h-Alba ‘s e 2018, ‘Bliadhna na h-òigridh’, agus tha sinne gu mòr airson taic a chuir ris a bhliadhna shònraichte a tha seo, le bhith a’ brosnachadh na h-òigridh a thaobh nan ealan Ghàidhlig. ‘S e tlachd a th’ ann am faicinn aig Mòdan Ionadail agus Nàiseanta agus cha bheag an luach a thaobh na Gàidhlig.
Seumas Greumach
Manaidsear a’ Mhòid
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- T. Kenneth MacKenzie
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teaghlach Stevenson
Neist
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sgorran
eòin
eòin mara
'S e rubha an Eist an t-ionad as fhaide dhan iar air an Eilean Sgitheanach, a' putadh a-mach don Chuan Sgìth agus a' dèanamh fasgaidh do Bhàgh na Munain eadar e fhèin agus Maol Bhatairsteinn. Tha na seallaidhean iongantach a' tighinn o chumaidhean creige a tha coltach ris an fheadhainn a lorgar ann an Cabhsair an Fhuamhaire ann an Èirinn a Tuath, agus air a dhèanamh nas fradharcaiche buileach leis an taigh-sholais, 62 troighean a dh'àirde, a chaidh a thogail 142 troighean os cionn na mara le teaghlach cliùiteach MhicStìobhain, na "lighthouse Stevensons". Thòisich an taigh-solais ag obair ann an 1909 agus chaidh e gu fèin-ghluasad ann an 1990.
Bho no sgorran àrda seo tha seallaidhean glana ann air na h-eòin mhara a bhios a' neadachadh sna claointean casa, agus cuideachd air pèileagan, mucan-mara agus corra chearban a bhios gu socair a' seòladh nan uisgeachan seo far a' chost.


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- 5550
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- USA
eilthireachd
eilthirich
saighdearan
gabhail san Arm
barantasan
Cogadh Saorsa Ameireagaidh
Tha na notaichean peansail seo air cùl barantais leis an deit 25 Ògmhios 1783 a' toirt dreuchd Lieftenant ann an Saighdearan-coise Legion Bhreatainn fon Liefteanant Còirnealair Ceannard Bannastre Tarleton, do Shomhairle MacDhòmhnaill. Chaidh am barantas a shoidhnigeadh aig a' Phrìomh-ionad, New York le Sir Guy Carleton, Àrd-cheannard Feachdan An Rìgh ann an colonaidhean a' chosta shear bho Alba Nuadh gu Florida an Iar.
Rinn Caiptean Somhairle Dòmhnallach eilthireachd a Charolina a Tuath bhon Eilean Sgitheanach agus thuinich e ann an Siorrachd Anson. Thug e seirbheis mar Dhìlseach ann an Cogadh Saorsa Ameireaga agus an dèidh sin thuinich e ann an Shelburne, Alba Nuadh. Thill e dhan Eilean Sgitheanach c1792 far an robh e a' còmhnaidh gus an robh e còrr is 90. Dh'fhàg e banntrach òg a bha fhathast a' còmhnaidh aig Feaul, Cille Mhoire ann an 1886, 's i air aois 100 bliadhna a ruigheachd.
Tha an sgrìobhainn mar phàirt de Thasglann JLM Mitchell aig Comann Gàidhlig Inbhir Nis. Bhuineadh Siorraidh Seumas Lachlann Màrtainn Mitchell (r. 13 Ògmhios 1929) do dh'Inbhir Nis agus bu mhac e don dotair ainmeil Lachlann Mitchell. Rinneadh siorraidh làn-ùine dhe ann an Dùn Èideann ann an 1978 agus thug e seirbheis an sin gus an do leig e dheth a dhreuchd ann an 1995. Chaochail e air 26 Samhain 2001


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Cabhag air cur às do chìs adhair
Chuir a' chompanaidh adhair Loganair ìmpidh air Riaghaltas na h-Alba cur às do chìs an luchd-siubhail adhair (APD) air slighean chun na Gàidhealtachd 's nan Eilean cho luath 's a ghabhas.
Gheibh Pàrlamaid na h-Alba cumhachd air a' chìs sa Ghiblean an ath-bhliadhna.
Tha Riaghaltas na h-Alba an-dràsta airson an APD a ghearradh 50%.
A' bruidhinn ri Comataidh an Ionmhais aig Holyrood, thuirt àrd-stiùiriche Loganair, Jonathan Hinkles: "Tha sinn den bheachd gu bheil adhhbar làidir ann am faochadh a tha an-dràsta air slighean bhon Ghàidhealtachd 's na h-Eileanan bhon chìs seo a leudachadh gu slighean à Dùn Èideann, Glaschu agus Obar Dheathain chun na Gàidhealtachd 's nan Eilean."
Thuirt Mgr Hinkles gun toireadh leithid de dh'fhaochadh togail gach cuid do thurasachd agus gnìomhachas san fharsainneachd air feadh na sgìre.
Thuirt e gu bheil Riaghaltas na h-Alba mar thà a' pàigheadh earrainn den chìs air na slighean sin, leithid siubhal euslainteach an NHS, agus mar sin nach cosgadh e mòran don sporran phoblach a' chìs a thoirt far nan slighean gu tur.
Thuirt e cuideachd gum biodh barrachd luchd-siubhail a' cleachdadh phort-adhair na Gàidhealtachd 's nan Eilean ri linn, agus mar sin gun lùghdaicheadh sin na dh'fheumas na puirt-adhair sin fhaighinn de thaic-airgid riaghaltais.
"Tha sinn den bheachd gum bu chòir prìomhachas a thoirt don atharrachadh seo anns na ciad cheumannan a ghabhas Riaghaltas na h-Alba fon chumhachd ùr," thuirt e.
"Bheir a bhith a' cur às don APD air slighean chun nan Eilean, fada mus tachair sin air a h-uile seirbheis an Alba, buannachd mhòr do theaghlaichean, do thurasachd agus gnothachasan."
Cuideachd a' bruidhinn aig a' Chomataidh Diciadain, bha cuid a bha ag iarraidh air Riaghaltas na h-Alba gun cur às don chìs.
Thàinig rabhadh bhon chompanaidh thrèanaichean Virgin gum faodadh gun tèid an treas cuid de sheirbheisean rèile eadar Dùn Èideann agus Lunnainn a bhith air an call ma thachras sin.


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Gainnead diesel ann an Uibhist
Fhuair cuid de na stèiseanan connaidh ann an Uibhist tuilleadh diesel sa mhadainn Dimàirt an dèidh mar a theirig na bh' aca oidhche Luain.
A rèir 's mar a chaidh innse don BhBC 's e leasachadh air na tancaichean aig Scottish Fuels ann an Loch a' Chàrnain as coireach nach eil na h-uidhir de dhiesel ri fhaighinn ann an Uibhist an-dràsta.
Tha dùil gun tig tuilleadh connaidh chun an eilein ro dheireadh na seachdain.
Dh'fhaodadh beagan ùine a bhith ann fhathast ge-tà, mus till cùisean dhan àbhaist.


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Thursday, 27 March 2014
An Oral Account of the Vatersay Raiders
Appearing in court on the 2nd of June, 1908, ten cottars from the small island of Vatersay were presented before the Court of Session in Edinburgh on charges of breach of interdict (injunction) and contempt of court. In the eyes of the authority their alleged crime was to resist eviction from the island which they hard raided and on which they had constructed temporary huts and planted potatoes without seeking or intending to seek permission from the landowner, Lady Gordon of Cathcart. That, in a nutshell, was the case against the Vatersay Raiders.
The men from Barra and Mingulay had originally taken matters into their own hands and ‘invaded’ the island in July 1906 but despite repeated attempts by Lady Cathcart to serve interdicts their resolve was as strong as ever to remain put. By January 1908, Lady Cathcart had clearly lost her patience and served a complaint for breach of interdict and contempt of court on these men. The case is far too convoluted to give in any more detail here suffice to say that the court, somewhat predictably, upheld the side of the landlord.
These men were by no means by the first “land raiders” in the Highlands and Islands, driven to act by iniquitous landlordism, and they would certainly not be the last. The trial and ensuing events of the summer of 1908 became a cause célèbre, which had considerable ramifications at a time when land reform was high on Westminster’s agenda.
The case of the Vatersay Raiders caused such a furore across Scotland that the government eventually purchased the island for crofting – though not before the ten raiders had served most of the two-month prison sentences they were given for breach of interdict and contempt of court.They may have lost the battle but they had won the war. In many ways, Vatersay could be described at that time as a microcosm of what was then happening across the Highlands and Islands, as landlords became hostages not only to changing fortunes, but also to the increasingly expensive lifestyles they embraced in Edinburgh and London. It was their tenants who bore the brunt of these financial difficulties, a situation that could no longer be sustained or tolerated.
On the 2nd of March 1947, Calum Maclean was coming near to his first (but no his last) fieldtrip to Barra, met MacPhee (1869–1954), known Dòmhnall Bàn Eileanach, a crofter-fisherman from Brevig in Barra. MacPhee was born on the remote isle of Mingulay, some dozen miles south of Barra, which was completely abandoned by 1912. The people of Mingulay subsequently resettled in Barra as well as neighbouring Vatersay. In his obituary notice it states that MacPhee was “a man of keen intellect and retentive memory, he was a senachie of outstanding powers, being well-versed in the lore of his native island. On his marriage he took up residence in Brevig, where his home became the village ceilidh house.”
In a note written by John Lorne Campbell, the following information is provided: “Domhnall Bàn Eileanach [Eileanach = Mingulay man] recorded about 130 Mingulay place names for me in 1937. He also sent me the story Leum Iain Òig, published in ‘Outlook’ and other items written in Gaelic by himself. These are all that remain of his lore. His papers were destroyed by a member of the family after his death [JLC].”
Maclean transcribed a few items from his recitation, a self-composed song, a toast, and a very interesting socio-historical recollection of the events leading up to and during the Vatersay Raid in 1906, together with the local and national repercussions thereafter. At the time of his death, MacPhee was survived by his wife and their family of three sons, Calum, Donald and Michael, as well as their three daughters, Catriona, Morag and Peggy.
The following is one of only a few Gaelic oral accounts recorded from an eye-witness which very much offers an insider’s recollection of an event that he took part in over forty years before. Of course, like any other oral testimony, it may diverge here and there, as the narrator himself admits, from the historical record but its value lays more in its fascinating glimpses of a voice not so often heard:
Thóigeas síos an seanchas seo ó Dhòmhnall Mac a’ Phì (Dòmhnall Bàn Eileanach), c. 70, talmhaidhe agus sean-iasgaire, Brèibhig, Barraigh. Rugadh agus tòigeadh Dòmhnall Bàn Eileanach i Miughalaigh. Tá sé a’ trácht annseo ar an uair a d’fhága an sluagh Oileán Mhiughalaigh agus a chuaidh siad go Bhatarsaidh agus thòigeadar talamh annsin i n-aghaidh na dlighe. 2:3:1947
This lore was taken down from Donald MacPhee (Dòmhnall Bàn Eileanach), c. 70, a crofter-fisherman, Brevig, Barra. Donald MacPhee was born and brought up in Mingulay. He makes mention here of the folk leaving Mingulay and who went to Vatersay to illegally take land. 2:3:1947.
Well, a charaid chòir, ’s ann a mhuinntir Mhiughalaigh a tha mise, fear dhe na h-eileanan an Iar, an dàrna fear is fhaide dhan iar dha na h-Eileanan an Iar, Eilean Mhiughalaigh. Rugadh ann mi is dh’àraicheadh ann mi. Bha deich teaghlaich fhichead ann ri mo linn, ach mu dheireadh thòisich iad air tanachadh ach dh’fhan [riar?]. Bha barrachd math is fhichead teaghlach ann nuair a thàinig na daoine às air fad gu ruige Bhatarsaigh.
An seòrsa beò-shlàin’ a bh’ aca ’s e iasgach, iasgach langan, is bha sgothan iasgaich aca eadhon beag is mòr as gach seòrsa. Bha sgothan beaga aca airson iasgach nan giomach agus na sgothan mòra, troma nach gabhadh tarraing, is bhiodh iad air acraichean sa Chaolas Bheàrnarach, agus bha stèisean ciùraidh ann am Beàrnaraigh aig Niall MacNèill, Niall mac Iain ’ic Aonghais, bràthair athar Mhaighstir Iain Mhìcheil, sagart na Mòirthir. Bha, an t-iasg aig an àm a bh’ ann an sin, bha e gu math pailt. Bha annlann eile againn cuideachd. Bha sinn a’ faighinn gu leòr de sgairbh, is de dh’ eunlaidh ann an àm an t-samhraidh, agus ann an àm an fhoghair gu h-àraid an fheadhainn a bha aig an taigh, ach aig an àm a bh’ ann an sin, bhiodh na gillean òga ag iasgach na h-Àird an Ear sa Mhormhaich is ann am Fraserburgh, an Ceann Phàdraig ’s an Obar Dheadhain, agus feadh costa na h-Àird an Ear gu lèir, agus bhiodh iad a’ tabhairt dhachaigh suim bheag laghach airgid a rèir agus mar a bhiodh an seisean, a rèir agus mar a bhiodh an t-iasgach. Nan dèanadh iad deagh iasgach, bhiodh deagh phàigheadh aca a’ tighinn agus bha iad glè mhath dheth còmhla ri iad fhèin a chothachadh mun chuairt na bliadhna sa gheamhradh agus ann as t-earrach ag iasgach langan. Ach chuir na tràlairean mu dheireadh stad air. Chan fhaigheamaid mu dheireadh sìan a b’ fheuch an t-saothair a phàigheadh ar cosgair air thàilleamh nan tràlairean a bha a’ tràladh mu na h-eileanan, sa Chaolas Mhiughalach, sa Chaolas Bheàrnarach, sa Chaolas Phabach agus sa Chaolas Shanndrach. Thàinig oirnn mu dheireadh gum feumamaid an t-eilean fhàgail. Cha robh beò-shlàin’ againn ann. Cha b’ urra’ dhuinn an gnothach a dhèanamh, agus chuir sinn romhainn gun toireamaid a-mach Bhatarsaigh, agus gun robh Bhatarsaigh – ’s e eilean a bhuineadh dha ’r sinnsridh a bh’ ann. Dh’fhalbh ar sinnsridh às aig àm na h-eviction, nuair a chuir na h-uachdarain Ghàidhealach air falbh iad gu ruige Canada. Sgaoil iad às gach àite agus bha Eilean Bhatarsaigh, bha e aig an Dòmhnallach, bràthair na mhinistear a bh’ ann an Cuidhir, agus tha mi a’ glè chreidsinn caraide dhan Dotair MacGilleBhràth cuideachd.
Co-dhiù, chuir sinn romhainn gu làidir is chaidh sinn ann an guaillean a chèile gu làidir. Bha rud mòr againn ri dhèanamh. Bha fios againn gun robh cumhachd an lagha agus an t-sluaigh nar n-aghaidh. Ach ged a bha bha aona phoint àraid as an inntinn againn, ’s ann le Easbaig nan Eileanan, Bishop of the Isles, ’s e bh’ ann, ach chanamaid sinne aig an àm a bh’ ann an sin Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, ach ’s e Easbaig nan Eileanan, ’s ann leis a bha na ceithir [sic] eileanan, Bhatarsaigh, Sanndraigh, Pabaigh, Miughalaigh is Bèarnaraigh. Dh’fhuiling sinn gu leòr. Gun teagamh sam bith, sinne a rinn sin, dh’fhuiling sinn even ar cairdean fhèin gu leòr. Ach, co-dhiù, thug sinn a-mach Bhatarsaigh doirbh ’s mar a bha, agus bha e cho doirbh ri sgath a chunna mi riamh, ach rinn sinn an gnothach orra. Fhuair sinn buaidh orra a dh’aindeoin cho làidir ’s a bha an cumhachd, cumhachd an lagh. Chunna sinn againn fhìn gun robh sinn ann an eilean mara, agus bha sinn òg làidir gun teagamh sam bith, ged a bha seann-daoine nar measg.
Bha seann-daoine ceart gu leòr nar measg, ach bha iad a’ faotainn am beò-shlàin’, ach cha d’fhuair iad sgillin o Bhòrd nam Bochd riamh, ged bu daor a phàigh iad e, agus a choisinn iad e. Rinn iad an gnothach as aonais, ach chunna sinn againn fhìn gum feumamaid innleachd agus ionnsaigh a thoirt cho làidir an aghaidh an lagh agus a thug Breatann air Hitler. Bha fios againn taghta math gu feumte a dhol gu math seòlta mu dheidhinn. Bha sinn a’ cumail meetings. ’S e rud math a th’ ann am meetings – am facal nach bidh aig an dàrna duine, bidh e aig an duine eile, ach co-dhiù phropose sinn an gnothach, co-dhiù, agus an samhradh a bh’ ann an seoachd, bha dà sgothaidh à Miughalaigh agus dà sgothaidh eile à Bàgh a’ Chaisteil, ’s e sin Dòmhnall Mhìcheil, an Christina, agus sgoth eile, ach co-dhiù bha dà sgothaidh à Miughalaigh agus dà sgothaidh à Bàgh a’ Chaisteil agus chaidh an sluagh a bha airson bìdeag de dh’ fhearann Bhatarsaigh fhaotainn, chaidh iad air bòrd annta.
Bha sinn supposed falbh a thogail thaighean. Bha fios againn taghta math nan rachamaid thairis air an limit – co-dhiù feumaidh i corra fhacal Beurla a ràdh – nan rachamaid fairis air crìochan Chladh Ghriastain gum biodh an lagh nar druim, agus gum bu mhiosa a dh’fhàg na fhuair ach ’s e rinn sinn thòisich sinn ann am Bràighe na Steiseanan, a chionn tha àite as an eilean as an robh ciùrairean a’ ciùradh an sgadain mòran shamhraidhean roimhe sin ann am Bhatarsaigh. Thòisich sinn ri togail bothagan chearc, am fleet againn ann am bràighe na staiseanan. Bha fios againn a h-uile car a bha sinn a’ cur dhìonn, agus a h-uile clach a thionndamaid, gum bidh e ann an Dùn Èideann aig a’ Bhoard of Agriculture a chionn bha cumhachd làidir aig na Dòmhnallaich.
’S e fear Dòmhnallach am breitheamh a bh’ againn. Chan eil ainm agam air, ’s e thug a-mach a bhreitheamh againn. Cò-dhiù na co dhealadh, bha cumhachd làidir aig na Dòmhnallaich a chionn ’s e bràthair a’ mhinisteir, ’s ann aige a bha Bhatarsaigh, agus bha bràthair eile dhà as an Eilean Sgitheanach. Bha ceann à tuath an Eilein Sgitheanaich aige, ach, co-dhiù, bha ceathrar na còignear bhràithrean aig a’ mhinistear. Co-dhiù, cha robh sinn diumbach idir dhiubh, ged a bha iad nan Dòmhnallaich fhèin air taobh a chèile, ’s e càirdean a bh’ annta. Ach tha agam ri ràdh gun robh ar càirdean fhèin nar n-aghaidh ann an gu leòr a dh’àiteachan, ach chum sinn air aghaidh. Chum sinn air aghaidh co-dhiù. Chuir sinn beothaichean ann, gamhna, agus bhrist sinn air an talamh. Rinn sinn buntàta ann, agus ann an ceann beagan ùine, nuair a bha sinn a’ smaointinn gun d’fhuair am Board of Agriculture agus na cairdean a bha sa Phàrlamaid air taobh nan Dòmhnallach, gun d’fhuair iad brath gun a thog sinn na bothagan ann am bràighe a’ chladaich, thòisich sinn ri dhol na b’ àirde suas.
Mu dheireadh ràine sinn an Square far an robh a’ bhàthach aig an Dòmhnallach airson nam beothaichean agus far am biodh e a’ glèidheadh an arbhair. Thòisich sinn ri togail thaighean ann a shin, beagan dhiubh. Thog sinn dhà na trì thaighean ann a shin le cloich dhen t-seann-dòigh Ghàidhealach a bha feadh nan Eileanan an Iar gu lèir. Chuir sinn a dh’ iarraidh fiodh agus chuir sinn suas seadaichean na bu ghiorra ’n a’ chladach. Chaidh a’ ghàsaid a chur gu ruige Dùn Èideann aig na Dòmhnallaich gun a bhrist na squatters – gu dè Ghàidhlig a th’ air squatter? – talamh agus gun tug iad leotha na beothaichean a Bhatarsaigh agus gun a thog iad taighean, ach ’s e bh’ ann gun a rinn iad iad fhèin breugach ann an làthair muinntir na Pàrlamaid mìos roimhe sin, fhuair iad brath bhuatha gur h-e bothagan a bha iad a’ togail ann am bràighe a’ chladaich, ann an tiùrr a’ mhuir-làin.
Bha Dòmhnall Shaw an duine còir à Dùn Èideann, ’s e am fear lagh’ a bh’ againne, agus ’s e duine cleabhar a bh’ ann. ’S e deagh-sgiobair a bh’ ann, deagh chaiptin, ach bha criù math aige. Bha ann am Bhatarsaigh aig an àm a bh’ ann an sineachd daoine ionnsaichte a bha glè mhath agus gu math na b’ fheàrr na bha gu leòr, agus b’ e sin Donnchadh Caimbeul. ’S e bh’ ann an ainm leader againn, agus b’ e caraide dhà Niall Mac a’ Phì. Is math is aithne dhaibh air fad e. ’S e a secretary a bh’ aige, an rùn-chlèireach a bh’ aige. Agus ma tha mise olc gun teagamh sam bith cha do cheannaich mi sgath dheth. Thug mi o na Caimbeulaich e agus thug mi o Chloinn a’ Phì e e cuideachd, ach olc is mar a bha mi, thug Niall an coilear dhiom. Bha e fada na bu mhiosa na bha mi fhìn. Chuir sinn romhainn gum faigheamaid buaidh air na Dòmhnallaich, agus chitheamaid dhuinn fhìn gu math fada air falbh an dìg, mura faigheamaid buaidh orra. Bha deagh fhear-lagha againn a bha a’ sgrìobhadh ’ugainn à Dùn Èideann a h-uile cùirt a bhiodh aca. Bha cùirt mhòr aca. B’ fheudar dhan Shawach bhochd fuireach sàmhach aig a’ chùirt a bh’ ann an seo an Dùn Èideann. Thuirt iad nach robh boinne uisge air Eilean Bhatarsaigh, agus gun robh an Dòmhnallach ag aiseag nam beothaichean tarsaing a’ Chaolais Chumhaing gu Ceann Tangabhal airson gum faigheadh iad uisge is gan cumail ann nuair a bhiodh bliadhna thioram ann. B’ fheudar dhan t-Shawach fuireach sàmhach. Thilg e a’ chùirt a bh’ ann a shin, mas e thilg i, cha do fhreagair e idir e idir. Ach Garson, a tha fo ainm ‘Shir Edward and Garson’, b’ e am fear-lagh a bh’ aig na Dòmhnallaich. Bha a’ bhuinig aige an latha sin ar leis fhèin, ach sgriobh an Shawach gu ruige Bhatarsaigh. Dh’innis e a h-uile facal chaidh a ràdha aig a’ chùirt, nach robh boinne uisge ann am Bhatarsaigh agus gun robh an Dòmhnallach ag aiseag nam beothaichean tarsaing a’ Chaolais Chumhaing gu ruige Ceann Tangabhal. Co-dhiù, fhuair sinn an litir a bh’ ann an seo on t-Shawach, agus rinn sinn coinneamh. Ach, co-dhiù, a’ choinneamh a rinn sinn, bha i ann an dìomhaireachd ann an cridhe a h-uile h-aon againn, ach chomhairlich sinn le chèile gu goirid agus chaidh sinn a dh’ionnsaigh an rùin-chlèirich, gu Niall Mac a’ Phì.
’S e a’ chiad obair a chaidh a dhèanamh an làr-na-mhàireach an deoghaidh an litir fhaotainn thàinig Donnchadh Caimbeal, thàinig an Caimbeulach a-nuas a thaigh Nìll. Bha bràthair dhòmh-sa air an robh Eachann Mac a’ Phì a-staigh aige agus ri taobh taigh Nìll a charaid, mac bràthar athar dhà. Rinn iad sluice, àite le fiodh, as an ruitheadh an t-uisge, agus thug iad leotha uaireadair agus thug iad leotha tin, fear dhe na tinichean sin a bhios aig na mnathan, a’ dol ’n a bhith a dh’iarraidh galan parrafin. Chaidh iad a dh’Eòrasdal an toiseach agus thomhais iad an t-uisge ann an Eòrasdal. Chaidh an account a dhèanamh suas ann am fiogairean. Thomhais iad a h-uile tobar a bh’ ann am Bhatarsaigh. Thomhais iad an leathad is am meudachd is an doimhneachd a bh’ ann an Loch Bhatarsaigh agus anns an abhainn, uibhir agus a bha i a’ produceadh ann am mionaid, na ann an còig mionaidean. Chaidh iad a dh’ionnsaigh a Bheannachain go Abhainn a’ Bheannachain. Thomhais iad Abhainn a’ Bheannachain air an achd chionann cheunda, agus chaidh iad a sin a Charagraidh. Tha loch eile ann an Caragraidh. Thomhais iad an loch air an achd chionann cheunda, am fad ’s an leathad ’s an doimhneachd a bh’ ann, am produce a bha tighinn bhuaithe. Dh’fhalbh iad a Caragraidh agus chaidh iad ’n a’ Chaolas. Thomhais iad Abhainn a’ Chaolais, am produce a bh’ aice-se. Bha an t-uaireadair aca agus am flask, flask galain. Bha Dòmhnallaich eile ann cuideachd a bha na seirbhisich agus nan cìobairean aig Fear Bhatarsaigh, on a tha nàdar clannish as a h-uile gin dheth na Dòmhnallaich.
Bha Dòmhnallaich a’ Chaolais, Clann Alasdair a’ Chaolais bha iad nan cìobairean aig Fear Bhatarsaigh, agus bha an taigh stuichd aca; agus gu dearbha fhèine bha iad a’ cur mu seach airgid. Bha caoraich aca còmh’ ris an stoc agus bha iad a’ cur mu seach airgid, agus bha iad ann an òrdan uamhasach math ann am Bhatarsaigh agus ga brith co-dhiù chòrd e riutha na daoine a dhol ann gus nach do chòrd, chum iad orra fhèin e gu math tight; ach ’s math a dh’aithnich iad ceann ar seud agus ar siubhal, nuair a chaidh sinn a thomhas an uisge ’n a’ Chaolas. Chaidh an t-uisge a thomhas. Rinn Niall Mac a’ Phì, an rùin-chlèireach suas, dh’add e suas na fiogaran, a h-uile tuna a chaidh a ruith de dh’uisge às na ceathair uairean fichead air an t-seachdamh latha na Mhàrt sa bhliadhna a bh’ ann an seo: agus chaidh litir a sgrìobhadh a dh’ionnsaigh an t-Shawaich. Bha an litir cho làidir air a sgrìobhadh agus gun tuirt e ann an deireadh na litreach gun robh sinn uile ann an rùn làidir nach yieldamaid, nach strìocamaid, gus an tigeadh expert on Chrùn ga thomhas, gun robh an fhìrinn againn. Chaidh an litir a bh’ ann an seo a dh’ionnsaigh an t-Shawaich. Beagan ùine às a dheoghaidh sin, chaidh a’ chùirt a chumail ann an Dùn Èideann; agus bha Garson còir, an duine còir, gum bu slàn iomradh dhà, ma bha e a’ bualadh a bhasan le sòlas air a’ chùirt a bh’ ann roimhid, cha robh an inntinn aige ach gu math trom air an trip a bha seo. Thug an Shawach a-mach an litir, mar a sgriobh Mac a’ Phì i, agus leugh an Dòmhnallach, an Lord Justice Clerk, leugh e i, agus nuair a leugh e i choimhead e air Garson, air fear-lagh Gharson. Chaidh am point a bh’ ann an sin a dheànamh breugach an aghaidh Lady Gordon Cathcart, agus mach bhuaithe sin bha saoirsne againn ann am Bhatarsaigh.
Ach bha a h-uile rud a bh’ ann nar n-aghaidh ann am Bhatarsaigh. Chaidh na croitean a roinn. Thàinig engineer on Chongested Districts Board – ’s e bh’ ann an uair sin. Thàinig engineers a ghearradh na croitean. Ghearr iad na croitean. Bha na pineachan annta. Chaidh sinn a choimhead nan croitean, mar a ghearr na h-engineers iad. Chunna sin na pineachan agus chunna sinn croitean mòra agus croitean beaga. Ach thuig sinn am port a bh’ ann a seo math gu leòr, agus a chionn bha feadhainn dhe na daoine againn fhìn na mealltairean air taobh nan Dòmhnallach, ach ged a bha fhèin air a shon sin, bha seo air a thabhairt suas dhan t-Shawach. Bha fios aig an t-Shawach air an seo cuideachd. Chomhairlich e dhuinn gu feumamaid a bhith gu math furachail orra.
[Tá beárna ins an t-seanchas annseo C. M.]
Well, chaidh an t-uisge a thomhas. Chaidh an litir a Dhùn Èideann a dh’ionnsaigh an t-Shawaich agus sgrìobh an Shawach ’ugainn am Bhatarsaigh, agus ’s e a’ chiad thoiseach a bha san litir aige gun robh e a’ tabhairt taing mhòr dhuinn airson an litir a chuir sinn ’uige a chionn ’s gun a choisinn e a’ bhuaidh an Dùn Èideann. Ach mun a thachair seo idir chaidh muinntir Bhatarsaigh, na bha de shluagh a Bhatarsaigh, agus b’ e sin muinntir Mhiualaigh a’ chuid bu mhotha dhiubh a shumanadh, a shumanadh gu cùirt an Dùn Èideann.
Chuir an Shawach brath ’uca a dhol air aghaidh. Dh’innis e dhaibh ro làimh gun tigeadh orra a dhol ann. Fhuair iad an sumanadh is chaidh iad ann agus fhuair iad dà mhios prìosan airson contempt of court. Chaidh iad ’n a’ phrìosan, agus gu lucky shàbhail Niall Mac a’ Phì, mo charaide fhèin, shàbhail e agus shàbhail mise cuideachd, ach cha do shàbhail an còrr e, agus ’s e mar a shàbhail mise e, phòs mi bean òg an uair sin, a’ chailleach ud shuas. Bha i ann am Brèibhig, agus bha mi fhìn ag iasgach a-mach à Bàgh a’ Chaisteil leis an sgothaidh a bh’ agam fhìn, agus bhithinn a’ dol a choimhead na caillich a h-uile feasgar. Chaidh am fear a chaidh leis na sumanaidhean a-null gu ruige Bhatarsaigh. Ghabh iad bhuaithe na sumanaidhean, agus bha sumanadh aige gu Niall agus thachair do Niall e fhèin gun robh e ann am Miualaigh le biadh gu mhàthair agus gu phiuthar as an àm. Cha b’ urrainn dhan duine a bh’ ann an seo fuireach ach an aon latha, agus dh’fhalbh e. Chum e air aghaidh gu ruige Dùn Èideann agus dh’innis e ann an Dùn Èideann gun d’ rinn esan obair dhìleas, gun a sherve e na h-interdicts air na squatters uile gu lèir, agus bha ainm Nìll aige. Dh’fhàg e tè Nìll agus dh’fhàg e an interdict aig Niall, agus ghlèidh cuideigin i. Nuair a fhuair esan far à làmhan i, bha e ceart gu leòr. Ach chaidh brath a chur sa mhionaid a dh’ionnsaigh an t-Shawaich, nuair a thill Niall à Miualaigh agus thuirt e ris nach fhac’ esan an duine idir a sherve na h-interdicts, agus nach matha a chunnaic e an t-interdict fhèin ma bha interdicts aige-san nach d’fhuair esan i co-dhiù. Chaidh a’ chùirt a chumail. Sheas a Shawach air bheulaibh an Lord Justice Clerk, e fhèin is a chuid fhear-lagh gu h-àraid Garson, Sir Edward and Garson! Is àithne dhaibh glè mhath e. Is math is àithne dhòmh-sa e. Chaidh Niall Mac a’ Phì, chaidh a thabhairt suas gun robh e air interdicteadh còmhla ri càch. Chaidh ainm Nìll a thabhairt a-staigh aig an fhear a sherve na h-interdicts còmhla ri càch, còmh’ ris an fheadhainn a fhuair iad agus a ghabh iad. Dh’èirich an Shawach, an duine còir agus chall e am fear a sherve na h-interdicts:
“Na sherve thusa an t-interdict air Niall Mac a’ Phì?” – an taigh na cùirte.
Chrom e a cheann gu ceacharra, brosgallach, diùid, nàireach:
“Cha do sherve,” ors’ esan. “Cha robh e ann am Bhatarsaigh idir.”
Chaidh ainm Nìll a tharraing far an roll, agus air an ath-chuirt às a dheoghaidh sin ’s ann a chaidh dà mhìos prìosain orra.
Chaidh dà mhìos prìosain orra: agus mas e fhior am pàipear-naidheachd an Oban Times – bha mise ga leughadh as an àm agus mi aig an taigh, gun tuirt an Lord Justice Clerk ris an luchd-lagha sa chùirt, agus an jury air gearain ris gun robh gu leòr an siud dà mhìos, agus bha an Lord Justice Clerk, bha e diumbach nach deacha na trì orra, a chionn ’s e Dòmhnallach a bh’ ann. Bha e clannish. Bha e air taobh an luchd-cinnidh. Thuig sinn sin glè mhath, ach bha mise is Niall ann am Bhatarsaigh. Bha mise ag iasgach. Bha sgoth iasgaich agam fhìn, is bha mi fhìn ag iasgach. Thug sinn fainear co-dhiù, ’s e mi fhìn a thug fainear cuideachd dhà. Bha Niall am Bhatarsaigh. Bha mise am Bàgh a’ Chaisteil. Thug sinn fainear gun dèanamaid petition a chuireamaid a dh’ionnsaigh Dewar, bha na mhember Pàrlamaide airson Siorrachd Inbhir Nis. ’S i bh’ ann an uair sin. Thàine Niall còir a-nall am Bhatarsaigh an latha bh’ ann an seo co-dhiù, agus sin a’ bhliadhna a chaidh Maighstir Iain Mhìcheil, a chaidh a choisrigeadh na shagart, a’ chiad bliadhna dhà a bhith na shagart agus ’s e Maighstir Uilleam MacCoinnich an sagart a bh’ ann am Borgh, agus ’s e Maighstir Eòghan Camshron an sagart a bh’ ann am Bàgh a’ Chaisteil. Thug Niall, bha am pàipear aige, foolscap – nach e a bheir thu ris? – thug e foolscap do Mhaighstir Uilleam MacCoinnich, agus dh’iarr e air na headings a dhèanamh. Rinn Maighstir Uilleam sin, rinn e na headings, ged nach eil cuimhne agam-sa orra an-diugh. Mo chreach! Tha mi duilich nach eil cuimhne agam orra, ach co-dhiù tha cuimhne agam air rud beag agus innsidh mi dhaoibh mar a bha e. Rinn Maighstir Uilleam, rinn e am beginning dhen a’ phetition a bha sinn a’ dol a dhèanamh agus thuirt e: On behalf of those, who are disturbing His majesty’s Gaol for their illegal proceedings. Cha do chòrd an gnothach ruinn nuair a chunna sinn illegal as na headings aig Maighstir Uilleam MacCoinnich, sagart Bhuirgh. Cha dèanadh math dhuinn a dhol na chòir. Cha ghabhadh e gu math e, agus dh’ fheumamaid fuireach cho fada bhuaithe agus a b’ urra’ dhuinn, ach a h-uile mathas a b’ urra dhà thoirt dhuinn gum feumamaid a ghabhail, agus gum feumamaid a bhith na fheum. Ach ’s e ’m plan a rinn sinn co-dhiù, ’s e Cloinn a’ Phì a bh’ annainn le chèile. Chuir sinn am pàipear air a’ bhòrd, agus aig cho fior-mhath agus a bha Niall gu sgrìobhadh, bha na corragan aige uamhasach math gu sgrìobhadh dh’atharraich e sgrìobhadh Mhaighstir Uilleim agus thug e as illegal agus chuir e legal ann. Ach, co-dhiù, dh’fhalbh sinn a Bhorgh. Chomhairlich e dhuinn a dhol a dh’ionnsaigh nan croiteirean agus crofter a chur aig deireadh a h-uile h-ainm, on is e crofters a bha sinn fhìn ag iarraidh a bhith. Nuair a bha sinn a’ toirt a-mach Bhatarsaigh. Dh’fhalbh sinn, mi fhìn is Niall is chaidh sinn a Bhatarsaigh. Cha robh mac duine ann an Tangasdal, na ann an Cuidhir na ann an Cliait nach deacha’ na h-ainmeannan ris a’ phetition.
Às a’ chiad starta co-dhiù, nuair a ràine sinn taigh Mhaighstir Uilleim cò bha staigh romhainn ach Maighstir Iain Mhìcheil, is e air ùr-choisrigeadh na shagart; agus bha sagart eile ann is gu dearbha chan eil cuimhne ’m, gabhaibh mo lethsgeul, chan eil cuimhne ’m cò an sagart eile a bh’ ann. Tha an ùine car cho fada. ’S e bh’ ann sagart Gallda eile, nach buineadh dhan dùthaich idir. Thug sinn am petition do Mhaighstir Uilleam agus choimhead Maighstir Uilleam air is na triùir shagart a-staigh ann an taigh Mhaigstir Uilleim am Borgh. Choimhead e air agus leugh e am petition:
“O!” ors’ esan, “’s e mi fhìn a rinn seo.”
“O! sibh gu dearbha fhèine,” orsa sinn fhìn.
Cha robh ach shoighn e e. Chuir e ainm ris. Shìn e am petition do Mhaighstir Iain Mhìcheil, Canon MacNeil, Morar, Shoighn am fear sin e fhèin e. Shoighn an sagart eile a-rìthist e.
A-nist, bha e air a shoigneadh aig na trì sagairt.
And the translation goes something like the following;
Well, my good friend, I myself belong to Mingulay folk, one of the Western Isles, the second one furthest south of the [inhabited] Western Isles, the Isle of Mingulay. I was born and brought up there. In my time there were thirty families, but eventually they thinned out but [a few stayed?]. There were more than twenty families remaining when all the folk left to settle in Vatersay.
Their earned a livelihood by fishing for ling and they owned fishing boats, large and small of each type. They had small boats for lobster fishing and the big, heavy boats couldn’t be rowed and they would be anchored in Berneray Straight; and they had a curing station in Berneray owned by Neil MacNeil, known as Niall mac Iain ’ic Aonghais, a brother of Father John MacNeil, a priest in Morar. The were plenty fish back then. We also had another type of food – we caught a lot of cormorants and other seabirds during the summer and autumn especially those at home, but at that time there were young fishermen from the East Coast, who came from Morayshire, Fraserburgh, Peterhead and Aberdeen, and throughout the East Coast and they used to take home a tidy sum of money depending on the season and, of course, how well the fishing went. If they had done well, they’d have a decent pay and they’d do well for themselves and those about who struggled through the winter and spring fishing for ling. But the trawlers eventually put an end to that. Eventually we couldn’t catch anything that was worth the effort of paying for the trawlers that were trawling around the islands in the Straight of Mingulay, in the Straight of Berneray, in the Straight of Pabbay and also in the Straight of Sandray. We eventually had to leave the island. We couldn’t earn livelihood. We couldn’t manage and we decided to settle in Vatersay, and the Isle of Vatersay belonged to our ancestors. Our ancestors left at the time of the evictions when the Highland landlords evicted them over to Canada. They were scattered all over the place and the Isle of Vatersay was then owned by a MacDonald, a brother of a minister at Cuier [near Castlebay, Barra] and I firmly believe that he was good friends with Dr MacGillivray as well.
But, in any case, we made a firm decision and we all strongly supported one another. We had set out to do a big thing. We knew full well that the law and the folk were against us. Nevertheless we kept one special thing on our minds as it was owned by the Bishop of the Isles, but we’d refer to him then as Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, who had the four [sic] islands of Vatersay, Sanndray, Pabbay, Mingulay and Berneray. We had suffered enough. Without a shadow of a doubt we had [suffered] and even our own kin had had enough. But, anyway, we made it over to Vatersay though it wasn’t easy, and it was as difficult as anything I’ve ever experienced, but we nevertheless made it. We were victorious even against such a strong force as the law.
We saw for ourselves that we were in a sea-island and we were without doubt young and vigorous even though there were old folk in our midst. There were old folk in our midst right enough but they earned their livelihood and never received a single penny from the Poor Board although they dearly paid for it [their livelihood] that they made for themselves. They managed without assistance but we ourselves saw that we would need as much ingenuity and guile to fight as strongly against the law as Britain had fighting Hitler. We knew full well that we’d have to be diplomatic about it. We held meetings. These meetings were useful – a thought that one man didn’t have another would have and, anyway, we proposed a way forward and that summer two skiffs from Mingulay and two skiffs from Castlebay, one owned by Donald Michael [Christina] and another skiff, but, anyway, two skiffs from Mingulay and two skiffs from Castlebay came and the folk who wished to go over to Vatersay to claim a bit of land embarked.
We were supposed to be build houses. We knew full well that if we went over the limit – anyway there’d have to be a few English words said – if we went over the limit at Griastan Cemetery that the law would be on our backs, and we’d be worse off than we were before but what we did was to start at the Station Brae for there is a station there that used to cure herring many summers before in Vatersay. We began to build hen-huts with our fleet at the Station Brae. We knew that every step we took, and every stone that was turned, the Board of Agriculture in Edinburgh would know about it for the MacDonalds had great power.
MacDonald was the judge [lawyer] representing us. I have nothing against him but it was he who made the judgement. But, at any rate, the MacDonalds had great power for his brother was the minister who owned Vatersay and he also had another brother in the Isle of Skye who owned the northern part, but, at any rate, the minister had four or five brothers. Anyway, we weren’t unhappy about it at all even though these MacDonalds on each side were related. But I have to admit that our own friends were dead against them in many places, but regardless we kept on going. We kept going. We purchased stirks and we cultivated the land. We planted potatoes and, in only a short time, when we had thought that the Board of Agriculture and their friends in Parliament who sided with the MacDonalds got word that we had built huts on the shoreline and started to build further up.
Eventually we reached the Square where the MacDonald’s barn was for the cattle and where he stored corn. We began building houses there, a few of them. We built two or three houses there using stones in the old Highland style as was used throughout the Western Isles. We fetched wood and we built sheds close to the shore. A complaint was sent to Edinburgh on behalf of the MacDonalds that squatters – what’s Gaelic for squatter? – had begun breaking up the land and had brought cattle with them to Vatersay, and that they had built houses, but they had impeached themselves in the presence of the members of Parliament a month before as they got word that huts were being built on the shoreline, at the point of the high-tide.
That affable fellow Donald Shaw from Edinburgh was our lawyer and he was a clever man. He was an excellent skipper and a good captain who he had a skilful crew. In Vatersay, at that time, there were clever men who were very capable, and better than many was Duncan Campbell. That’s the name of our leader, and he was related to Neil MacPhee. And they all knew that. That was his secretary. And if I’m bad then without doubt I earned it. I took it from the Campbells and I took it from the MacPhees as well, but as bad as I may be, Neil took my collar from me. He was far worse than me. We set ourselves the task of winning over the MacDonalds, and we would see for ourselves that the ditch was quite far away, before we could gain victory. We had a good lawyer who wrote to us from Edinburgh every time he attended court. They had a great big court. Poor Shaw had to remain silent at this court in Edinburgh. They said that there wasn’t a single drop of water in Vatersay, and that MacDonald had ferried the cattle over the narrow straight to Kentangaval so that they could get water and so could be kept there when it was a dry year. Shaw had to remain silent. The case was thrown out, and if it had been, he never gave an answer at all. But Garson, Sir Edward Garson was the MacDonald’s lawyer. He thought that he had won [the case] that day but Shaw wrote to Vatersay. He related every word that was said at court, that there wasn’t one drop of water in Vatersay and that MacDonald had ferried the cattle over the narrow straight to Kentangaval. Anyway, we received the letter from Shaw and we held a meeting. But, at any rate, at the meeting, it was kept a secret in every single one of our hearts, and we quickly took counsel of one another and we then went to the secretary, Neil MacPhee.
The next day the first thing to be done after the letter came was the arrival of Duncan Campbell up to Neil’s house. My brother, Hector MacPhee, stayed next to Neil’s house, a paternal nephew. They made a sluice, a place made of wood so out the water would run and they took a watch with them and they took tin, one of the tins that women had when going to fetch a gallon of paraffin. They went over to Eorsadale at first and they measured the amount of water there. An account of it was noted down in figures. They measured every single well in Vatersay. They measure the length, width and depth in Loch Vatersay and the river and the amount it produced in a minute or in five minutes. They then went over to Abhainn a’ Bheannachain and measure it in the same way as before and they then went over to Caragraidh. There’s another loch in Caragraidh. They measured the loch in the same way, its length, breadth and depth and the amount produced from it. They went from Caragraidh over to Caolas and measure Abhainn a’ Chaolais and how much it produced. They had a watch and a gallon flask. There were other MacDonalds there too and they were servants and shepherds to the Tacksman of Vatersay, as they were naturally clannish just like every single one of the MacDonalds.
The MacDonalds of Caolais, Clann Alasdair a’ Chaolais, were shepherds to the Tacksman of Vatersay, and they owned a stock-house; and indeed they saved money. They also owned sheep as well as stock and they saved money, they were in very good order in Vatersay whether folk enjoyed that or not, they kept themselves quite tight; but they knew full well what we had been up to when we measured the water in Caolas. The water had been measured. Neil MacPhee had added up the figures, every ton of water that ran for twenty-four hours on the seventh of March that year: and a letter was sent to Shaw. The letter was so forcibly written that he said at the end of the letter that we were firmly of the opinion that we wouldn’t yield, that we wouldn’t give up, until an expert came from the Crown authority to measure it and that we had told the truth. This letter was sent to Shaw. A little while after that, a court was held in Edinburgh; and affable Garson, the nice fellow, may mention of him be well, and if he had been clapping his hands with delight at the court before, he was going to have a heavy mind this time round. Shaw took out the letter, as had been written by MacPhee, and the Lord Justice Clerk, a MacDonald, read it, and after he had read it, he looked over to the lawyer Garson. The main point had been made out to be untrue and went against Lady Gordon Cathcart, and from then we were free in Vatersay.
Everything had gone against us in Vatersay. The crofts had been subdivided. An engineer arrived from the Congested Districts Board as it was called then. Engineers arrived to divide the crofts. They subdivided the crofts. They had pins placed around them. We went to go and see the crofts and the way in which the engineers divided them. We saw the pins and we saw both the large and small crofts. But we understood well enough their tune and because a few of our own people had been traitors who sided with the MacDonalds, and even at that, it was taken up with Shaw. Shaw knew about this as well. He advised us that we’d have to treat them carefully.
[There is a gap in the account here. C.M.]
Well, the water had been measured. The letters had been sent to Shaw in Edinburgh and Shaw gave his reply to us in Vatersay and the first thing he said in his letter was to offer us a big thank you for the letter we had sent him for congratulating him on his win in Edinburgh. But before any of this happened, the Vatersay folk, or those that were in Vatersay, and that was mainly Mingulay folk, were summoned to appear at court in Edinburgh.
Shaw sent them a message that went against this. He told them beforehand that they would have to appear. They received a summons and they made an appearance and received a prison sentence of two months for contempt of court. They were imprisoned, but luckily Neil MacPhee, my own friend, saved him and saved me too, but he couldn’t save the rest as he had saved me, I married my young wife then, the old woman up there. She was in Brevig, and I was fishing out of Castlebay with my own skiff and I used to go and see the old woman every evening. The man carrying the summons went over to Vatersay. They took the summons from him and he had a summons for Neil and it so happened that Neil was in Mingulay delivering food to his mother and sister at the time. They man could only stay for one day, and then had to leave. He travelled to Edinburgh and he told them in Edinburgh that he had performed his task and that he had served the interdicts to all the squatters, and he had Neil’s name. He left it with Neil’s partner and it was left for him, as someone kept it. Once it was out of his possession that was the last of it. But a message was sent that very minute to Shaw, when Neil returned from Mingulay who had not seen the man at all who served the interdicts, and that it was very well that he had not seen the interdict itself and that he had not received it in any case. A court was held. Shaw stood in front of the Lord Justice Clerk, himself and his lawyer particularly Garson, Sir Edward and Garson! Well they knew him. And well I know him. Neil MacPhee offered up that he had been interdicted along with the rest. Neil’s name was offered up to the man who had served the interdicts along the rest, along with those who had taken them. Shaw rose up, the affable man, and called the man who had served the interdicts.
“Did you serve the interdict on Neil MacPhee?” – in the court-house.
He bowed his head, sorrowfully, flatteringly, shamefully and embarrassingly.
“No,” he answered, “He wasn’t in Vatersay at all.”
Neil’s name was withdrawn from the roll, and at the next court after that the sentence of two months was announced.
The were imprisoned for two months: and if the report in the Oban Times is true – I read it at the time when I was at home – that the Lord Justice Clerk said to the lawyers in court, and the jury complained to him the two months was enough; and the Lord Justice Clerk was displeased for he wanted them to be imprisoned for three months as he was a MacDonald. It was all a bit clannish. He was on the side of the chiefs. We understood this very well, but Neil and I were in Vatersay. I was fishing. I owned a skiff and I was fishing. We paid attention to it and I paid attention to him as well. Neil was in Vatersay. I was in Castlebay. We intended to make a petition to send to Dewar, who was a Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire as it was called back then. Neil came over to Vatersay on this day anyway, and that was the same year that Father John MacNeil, who had been consecrated a priest, that he had become a priest, and Father William MacKenzie was the priest in Borve, and Father Hugh Cameron was the priest in Castlebay. Neil took a piece of foolscap paper – isn’t that what you call it? – and he gave the foolscap to Father William MacKenzie – and asked him to write the headings. Father William did so, and he wrote the headings, although I don’t recall them today. Oh alas and alack! I’m sorry that I can’t recall them, but anyway I recall one little item and I told them what it was.
Father William wrote the beginning of the petition that we were going to compose and he said: On behalf of those, who are disturbing His majesty’s Gaol for their illegal proceedings. We didn’t like it when we saw illegal as one of the headings written by Father William MacKenzie, the Borve priest. It wouldn’t do us any good to go near that. It wouldn’t be taken well, and we’d have to say as far away as possible from that as we could, everything good that he could give us we’d have to accept, and it would have to be of some use. But that was our plan anyway, we were both MacPhees. We placed the paper on the table, and Neil was so excellent at writing, he had a very good hand and he altered Father William’s writing to make out illegal as legal. But anyway we set off for Borve. He advised us to go over the crofts and to sign crofter after every name for we wished to be crofters. Then we went over to Vatersay, we set off, Neil and I and went over to Vatersay. There was no-one in Tangasdale or in Cuier or in Cliait who did not sign their names on the petition.
In the first place, anyway, when we reached Father William’s house, who happened to be there but Father John MacNeil, he who had been newly consecrated as a priest; and there was another priest but indeed I don’t recall, you’ll have to excuse me, but I don’t recall the other priest’s name. It was so long ago. But the other priest was a stranger and didn’t belong to locality at all. We gave the petition to Father William and he looked at it, and also the three other priests who were in Father William’s house in Borve. He looked at it and read the petition.
“Oh!” he said, “it is I who wrote this.”
“Oh! Yes, indeed, you did,” we said.
He just had to sign it. He signed his name. He handed the petition to Father John MacNeil, Canon MacNeil, Morar. He also signed it. The other priest signed it as well.
Now it had been signed by all three priests.
It may be mentioned that Duncan Campbell, the leader of the Vatersay Raiders, did not live long enough – he passed away in October 1912 – to see Vatersay flourish but he never regretted the action that he and his fellow islanders had taken:
The celebrated case of the Vatersay raiders is recalled by the death of Mr Duncan Campbell at the age of about sixty-five years, who passed away the other day on the Island which he loved so well ... The facts connected with the memorable raid of which he was the leader, will be fresh in the minds of many people, and also the trial which took place in Edinburgh on June 2, 1908, and resulted in sentences of two months’ imprisonment being, passed upon Campbell and nine of his followers. Early in the year 1907 Campbell and a number of other landless cottars had been living in the village of Centangaval, and other parts of Barra, in very reduced circumstances, took forcible possession of part of the neighboring island of Vatersay, erected huts there, and proceeded to cultivate it, all without the permission of the proprietrix. After the latter had interdicted the raiders, proceedings were issued In the Court of Session citing them to appear before the Second Division as they would not give an undertaking to leave, the island, and not to trespass there in the future. This they refused to do, and they were tried, convicted, and sentenced as stated. Negotiations were then opened between the Secretary for Scotland, Lord Pentland, and the proprletrix, which resulted in the purchase of the whole island of Vatersay by the Congested Districts Board. In the meantime the Court ordered Campbell and his followers to be set at liberty after they had endured about a month’s imprisonment. On being released Campbell observed that he would have been ready to stay thirty years instead of thirty days in prison, rather than give up his claim to a holding on Vatersay, from which, he stated, the grandparents of his associates had been evicted some fifty years before.
Unsurprisingly a song entitled Òran nan Raiders (‘A Song for the Raiders’) was composed by Michael Buchanan, known as Mìchael Nìll Bhàin, and was later recorded by James Ross in 1958 from the recitation of Nan MacKinnon known as Nan Eachainn Fhionnlaigh:
Òran nan Raiders
Hù a Hò gum B’ Eibhinn Leam
Sèist:
Hù o hò gum b’ eibhinn leam
A chluinntinn mar a dh’èirich dhuibh,
’S a labhair thu ’n Dùn Èideann riu’
Ratreut nach biodh nad champa.
Tha Uilleam Baoid, gur h-àiridhe
Air Beirgheaslom gu Carragraidh,
An Goirtean Geal, ’s am Beannachan
Gu leathad bruthach Hamhstail.
Tha Dòmhnall Iain shìos an sin,
’S chan eil e doirbh a riarachadh:
Gu fòghnadh an Uidh Riabhach dha,
’S i math gu feurach ghamhna.
Tha Eòghan ann an Eòrasdal:
O, saoil sibh nach e Tòraidh e?
’S mura bi e fo lagh Dhòmhnaill,
’S ann a bhòtas sinn ’n a’ Ghleann e.
Tha todhar an Tràigh Tuath agaibh
A-mach gu Cala Shnuasamaoil,
’S tha Uidh Nistean fuaighte ris,
’S an uaigh aig Mòr nan Ceann ann.
Tha ’n Caolas math gu bàrr agaibh:
Tha stac air Port a’ Bhàt’ agaibh,
’S gun cruadhaich sibh an gràn aige
’S an àthaidh a bh’ aig Melvin.
A Song for the Raiders
Refrain:
Refrain:
What happy news for me
To hear how you fared
And how you told them plainly in Edinburgh
That there would be no retreat in your camp.
William Boyd, he ought to have
From Beirgheaslom to Caraigridh,
The Goirtean Geal, and the Beannachan
To the side of the brae of Hamhstal.
Donald John is down there,
And he’s not hard to please:
The Uidh Riabhach would do fine for him,
Since it’s good for grazing stirks.
Ewen there in Eoradail,
See what a Tory he is!
And if he won’t follow Donald’s orders,
We’ll just vote him out of the Glen.
You have seaweed rights from the North Beach
Out to Snuasimul harbour,
And Uinessan along with it,
And Mor nan Ceann’s grave is there.
You have the Caolas, good arable land;
You have (plenty of) drift seaweed at Port a’ Bhàta,
And you can dry the grain there
On the kiln that Melvin had.
References:
Ben Buxton, Mingulay: An Island and its People (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1995)
--------, The Vatersay Raiders (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2011)
NFC 1031, pp. 18–36, ‘A’ toirt air ais am fearann ann am Bhatarsaigh’ / ‘Taking the land back in Vatersay’ (Donald MacPhee (Dòmhnall Bàn Eileanach) (Barra))
Nan MacKinnon (Nan Eachainn Fhionnlaigh), ‘Òran nan Raiders’, http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/93509/1
Lisa Storey, Muinntir Mhiughalaigh (Inverness: Clàr, 2007)
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Labels: Barra, Brevig, Calum Maclean, Donald Campbell, Donald MacPhee, Edinburgh, Evictions, Gaelic oral tradition, Historical Narrative, Mingulay, Nan MacKinnon, Social History, The Vatersay Raiders, Vatersay
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- 1937
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- 1930an
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- Taigh-tasgaidh is Gaileiridh Ealan Inbhir Nis
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 7006
- KEYWORDS
- srath-spè
ruidhlichean
Chaidh am meòrachan Cusbainn seo leis a' cheann-là 22 Ògmhìos 1937 a chur gu Mgr. Iain Friseal, Rùnaire agus Ionmhasair Comann Gàidhealach Srath-spè & Ruidhle. Tha e co-cheangailte ri tagradh a thaobh saoradh bho Chìs Fèisteas airson an t-seasain sin de chuirmean ciùil.
Tha comainn Shrath Spè agus Ruidhle air a bhith mar phàirt chumanta den t-saoghal ciùil tridiseanta ann an Alba bho chaidh a' chiad chomann a chruthachadh ann an Dùn Èideann ann an 1881.
Chaidh meur na Gàidhealtachd a stèidheachadh ann an 1903.
Bha aon de na buill stèidhidh, Alasdair Grannd (cuideachd aithnichte air an ainm 'Battan'), na stiùiriche air a' chomann suas gu àm a bhàis ann an 1942, faisg air dà fhichead bliadhna


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Comhairle Siorrachd Obar Dheathain
'S e comhairle ionadail a tha ann an Comhairle Siorrachd Obar Dheathain[1] a tha a' dèiligeadh le Siorrachd Obar Dheathain. Tha baile Obar Dheathain fhèin ann an Comhairle Baile Obar Dheathain.
Chruthachadh e ann an 1995 o phàirtean de Roinn nam Monadh Liath. Ro 1975 bha Siorrachd Obar Dheathain, Siorrachd Bhanbh agus Siorrachd Cheann Cardainn san ionad seo.
Bailtean[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
Ceanglaichean a-mach[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
- Comhairle Siorrachd Obar Dheathain
- Mapa le grunnan ainmean-àite Gàidhlig ann an Siorrachd Obar Dheathain
Iomraidhean[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
- ↑ Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba. Air a tharraing 23 an Gearran 2016.
Comhairle Arcaibh | Comhairle Aonghais | Comhairle Baile Dhùn Dè | Comhairle Baile Dhùn Èideann | Comhairle Baile Ghlaschu | Comhairle Baile Obar Dheathain | Comhairle Chrìochan na h-Alba | Comhairle Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann an Ear | Comhairle Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann an Iar | Comhairle Dhùn Phris is Ghall-Ghàidhealaibh | Comhairle na Eaglaise Brice | Comhairle Earra-Ghàidheal agus Bhòid | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | Comhairle Fhìobha | Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd | Comhairle Inbhir Chluaidh | Comhairle Lodainn an Ear | Comhairle Lodainn an Iar | Comhairle Lodainn Mheadhanaich | Comhairle Mhoireibh | Comhairle Pheairt is Cheann Rois | Comhairle Siorrachd Àir a Deas | Comhairle Siorrachd Àir an Ear | Comhairle Siorrachd Àir a Tuath | Comhairle Siorrachd Chlach Mhanann | Comhairle Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas | Comhairle Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath | Comhairle Siorrachd Obar Dheathain | Comhairle Siorrachd Rinn Friù | Comhairle Siorrachd Rinn Friù an Ear | Comhairle Shealtainn | Comhairle Shruighlea |


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A' Ghàidhlig luach nam milleanan
Tha luach suas ri £148.5m gach bliadhna do dh'eaconamaidh na h-Alba an lùib cleachdadh na Gàidhlig ann an gnìomhachasan agus buidhnean eile, a rèir rannsachaidh ùir.
Tha an sgrùdadh a' cumail a-mach gu bheil cleachdadh a' chànain ann an suaicheantasan agus sanasachd a' dèanamh ghnìomhachasan nas tarraingiche do luchd-ceannaich.
'S iad Iomairt na Gàidhealtachd 's nan Eilean (HIE) a bha air cùlaibh an rannsachaidh, 's iad air faighinn gur iad gnìomhachasan anns na h-Eileanan, air Ghàidhealtachd, ann an Glaschu, Dùn Èideann agus Earra-Ghàidheal is Bòd as motha a tha ag aithneachadh na Gàidhlig.
Chaidh an rannsachadh fhoillseachadh ann an aithisg ùr air a bheil Ar St.
Tha an aithisg ag innse gu bheil suaicheantasan agus sanasachd dà-chànanach sa Ghàidhlig agus sa Bheurla a' cur ri luach na tha gnìomhachasan agus buidhnean a' tabhainn.
Thuirt an luchd-rannsachaidh gum faod a' Ghàidhlig cho sònraichte 's a tha stuth agus seirbheisean a mheudachadh, a thuilleadh air mar a chì luchd-ceannaich "ùghdarras agus dùthchas" na cheannaicheas iad.
Cho-dhùin iad gum faod a' Ghàidhlig a bhith luach eadar £81.6m agus £148.5m sa bhliadhna do dh'eaconamaidh na h-Alba.
Chan ann a-mhàin sna sgìrean traidiseanta a tha sin fìor, agus àireamhan bhon chunntas-sluaigh mu dheireadh a' dearbhadh gu bheil mu 10,000 Gàidheal ann an Glaschu no san sgìre mun cuairt, agus 6,000 ann an Dùn Èideann no faisg air.
Dh'obraich HIE còmhla ri Bòrd na Gàidhlig, Dualchas Nàdair na h-Alba, Alba Cruthachail, Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd, Comhairle Earra-Ghàidheal is Bhòid agus Comhairle nan Eilean Siar gus an rannsachadh a dhèanamh.


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Loganair a' dol a choinneachadh ri Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
Thèid coinneamh a chumail leis a' chompanaidh adhair Loganair aig Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Diluain, 's iad a' dol a mhìneachadh mar a tha iad am beachd piseach a thoirt air an t-seirbheis a thathas a' tabhainn anns na h-eileanan.
Tha seo a' tighinn agus na h-uimhir de ghearrainean air nochdadh mu Loganair anns na h-eileanan bho chionn ghoirid.
'S ann gu sònraichte airson bruidhinn mu na duilgheadasan a th' aig a'chompanaidh le gnothaichean innleadaireachd a tha a' choinneamh ga cur air adhart, ach tha dùil gun tèid bruidhinn mu ghrunn chuspairean eile cuideachd, mar eisimpleir, na th' aca de phlèanaichean agus mar a tha iad a' cumail fiosrachaidh ris an luchd-siubhail nuair a bhios trioblaidean a' nochdadh.
Bidh dithis aig àrd ìre sa chompanaidh an làthair - Stiùiriche nan Gnìomhan, Maurice Boyle, agus Ceannard Roinn na h-Innleadaireachd, Barry Stone.
Bhon chomhairle, bidh Cathraiche Comataidh na Còmhdhail, Iain MacAoidh, ann, an Stiùiriche Teignigich, Iain MacFhionghuin agus Ceannard na Comhairle, Aonghas Caimbeul.
Tha a' chomhairle airson faighinn a-mach carson a tha seirbheisean fhathast air dheireadh, is grunn mhìosan ann bho dh'aidich Loganair gun robh laigsean anns an t-siostam, gu h-àraid le roinn na h-innleadaireachd.


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- ROS: Loch Aillse
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- 1960an
- CRUTHADAIR
- T. Kenneth MacKenzie
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- Roinn Dealbhaidh Chomhairle na Gàidhealtachd
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 13725
- KEYWORDS
- baile
taighean
loch
Tha an sealladh seo de Chaol Loch Aillse sna 1970an, a' coimhead chun an ear sìos Loch Aillse leis an rathad ùr, an A87, ri fhaicinn ann an cùl an deilbh a' leantainn an oirthir. Mus deach a thogail bha an t-slighe a-steach don bhaile à Cinn Tàile a' dol tro Bhaile Mac Ara, Earbarsaig agus tuineachaidhean beaga eile gu tuath. Cha robh anns a' Chaol fhèin ach beagan thaighean agus taigh-òsta faisg air an aiseag gus an deach ceann-uidhe an rèile a thogail ann an 1897.. Chaidh a leasachadh gu luath an dèidh sin le bàtaichean-smùide agus trèanaichean a' giùlan bathar agus luchd-siubhail a' ruighinn a' chidhe a tha dìreach ri fhaicinn air fìor làimh dheis an deilbh camara.


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- An t-Eilean Sgitheanach
- SIORRACHD/PARRAIST
- INBHIR NIS: Port Rìgh
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- Ionad Tasglainn an Eilein Sgitheanaich & Loch Aillse
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 8915
- KEYWORDS
- Dealan-uisgeach
loidhne-phìoban
San dealbh-chamara seo chithear an leathad cas de 350 troighean aig an rèile a' dol sìos do stèisean a' chruthachaidh aig Lochan an Stòir san Eilean Sgitheanach. Chaidh rèile a' chàbaill a thogail tràth ann an togail sgeama a' chumhachd agus bha e air a chur gu feum airson stuth is àirneis a ghiùlan gu tràighean Loch Bhearraraig. Chaidh barrachd air 600 stepan garbha staidhre a thogail ann an cruadhtan ann am bun-stèidh na rèile. Chithear grunn dhaoine a' coiseachd leth rathad sìos an staidhre san dealbh seo. Chaidh a' chiad loidhne-pìoba a thogail airson fosgladh 1952, agus an dàrna loidhne-pìoba, na cho-ruith an aon taobh, air a chur ris ann an 1956.
Chaidh Bòrd Dealan-uisge Cheann a Tuath na h-Alba a stèidheachadh fo chumhachd Achd Leasachaidh Dealan-uisge (Alba) 1943. Chaidh am Bile a chur air adhart le fear Tòmas MacIain aig Taigh nan Cumantan. Chuir e an cèill gum biodh e na fhuasgladh do chuid de dhuilgheadasan a bha aig a' Ghàidhealtachd aig an àm le bhith a' cleachdadh 'comas mòr falaichte na sgìre' ('the great latent power of the region'). Dh'inns e do na Cumantan 'gum biodh agus gum bu chòir gum biodh gnìomhachasan, an dà chuid prìobhaideach is poblach, a bhithth air an tàladh don Ghàidhealtachd mar thoradh air an leasachadh seo' ('industries, whether owned nationally or privately, will be and ought to be, attracted to locations in the Highlands, as a result of this measure'.)
Bhiodh prìomhachas aig luchd-caitheimh àbhaisteach an toiseach agus an uair sin aig an fheadhainn a bhathas an dùil a chleachdadh tòrr mòr cumhachd. Dheigheadh cumhachd sam bith a bha air fhàgail a reic ris a' Ghriod Nàiseanta. Bhathas airson gun deigheadh prothaidean bho bhith a' reic an dealain seo a chleachdadh gus cosgaisean an lùib a bhithth a' cumail dealan ri àiteachan iomallach a lùghdachadh agus gus cuideachadh a thoirt do leasachaidhean sòisealta is eaconamach air a' Ghàidhealtachd. Bha an clas sòisealta ainmeil seo ag aithneachadh gun robhar a' coimhead air a' Bhòrd mar dhòigh air a bhithth a' toirt ath-bheothachadh air ceann a tuath na h-Alba, agus chan ann a-mhàin mar bhuidheann cruthachadh dealain.
Bhathar den bheachd gum biodh gu leòr cumhachd às an stèisean cumhachd air Loch Slòigh, taobh an iar Loch Laomainn airson na bha a dhìth ann am meadhan agus taobh an iar na h-Alba. Bhiodh cumhachd a bharrachd air a chleachdadh gus taic a thoirt do na pròiseactan aig Mòrar agus Loch Aillse air sgàth 's nach biodh e buailteach gum biodh e comasach do na sgeamachan seo a bhithth prothaideach. Bha cosgaisean togail nan trì phròiseactan seo air a thomhas aig £4,600,000
Faodar an dealbh seo a cheannach.
Airson tuilleadh fiosrachaidh mu cheannach is prìsean, cuir post-d gu: Skye and Lochalsh Archives


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- Innis nan Damh
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- Asaint
- SIORRACHD/PARRAIST
- CATAIBH: Asaint
- LINN
- 1930an
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- Willie Morrison
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 30520
- KEYWORDS
Chaidh an dealbh-camara de bhalach (gun aithne) a thogail sa ghàrradh aig Eilidh is Raibeart Easton ann an Innis nan Damh.
Bha Eilidh 's an duin' aice, Raibeart - air an robh 'Bodach Easton' san sgìre - a' fuireach ann an Innis nan Damh fad iomadh bliadhna gus an deach an taigh aca na theine anmoch sna 1940an 's a rinn iad gluasad a dh'Eiliginn. 'S e na nàbaidhean aig Mgr 's a' Bh-Uas Dòmhnall Corbett, na seanphàrantan aig an neach-naidheachd 's an deasaiche Gàidhealach, Uilleam Moireasdan. 'S ann mar 'Bobbie' a dh'aithnicheadh an nighean aca, Roberta. Rinn i trèanadh na tidsear agus bha i na ceannard air sgoil an Lagain


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Dè a bhuannaich a 'coimhead coltach? Tha iad àrd no goirid? Dubh no geal? Làidir no anmhunn? Tha mi creidsinn tha e an crochadh air dè tha sinn a 'ciallachadh le “bhuannaich.”
Bha mi a dhraghadh a-steach sgeulachd aon neach a bhuannaicheas seo mhìos a chaidh seachad mar a leughadh fada, ach tarraingeach biography of Michael Jordan. Tha cunntas mionaideach air na m 'chuimhne carson a tha mòran dhaoine a bheò-ghlacadh le dha crìochnachadh air gaisgeach adhradh. Tha mòran rudan urrainnear a ràdh mu dheidhinn “aige airness” ach cha robh duine a-riamh e tagradh eil buannaiche. An robh e a 'coimhead air mar a bhuannaich mus d' fhuair e iadsan uile farpais fàinneachan, ged?
Mar a bhios tu a 'leughadh an leabhair, bha e coltach soilleir bho làithean òige gum biodh e gaisgeach. Co-dhiù gum b 'e leth-cluiche mar beagan lìg no soitheach mar òg varsity cluicheadair ball-basgaid; àrd-sgoile a 'fàs spurt no a' gheama a bhuannachadh urchair nuair a bha ea freshman bliadhna le UNC.
Le bhith an àm a fhuair mi gu caibideilean aige mu dheidhinn co-fharpaisean mar Chicago Bull, cha robh a chuir iongnadh. Tha an t-ùghdar a dh'innis e sgeulachd ann an dòigh a tha ga dhèanamh soilleir: Jordan Rugadh a bhith a bhuannaich. Agus 'se sin na tha fhios againn dha: bhuannaich e sia farpais fàinneachan, còig MVPs, agus 14 All Star nochd (gun luaidh aige gun dùbhlan rìoghachadh ann an lùth-chleasachd bròg gheama).
Tha an seòrsa gun dùbhlan rìoghachadh tha mar as trice a 'tighinn gu d'chuimhne an toiseach nuair a smaoinicheas sinn “bhuannaich.” Ach tha mi ag iarraidh oirnn a 'fàgail rùm airson eile seòrsa buannaiche. An t-seòrsa neach a bhuannaicheas aig nach eil a h-uile makings de churaidh. An t-seòrsa neach a bhuannaicheas aig a bheil laigsean nas thoirt fa-near na bha neartan. An t-seòrsa neach a bhuannaicheas a 'coimhead nas coltaiche A Loser uaireannan.
cheannsaich, ach Conquering
Bidh mi onarach dhuibh. Tha an dà bhliadhna mu dheireadh air a bhith iongantach ann an iomadh dòigh, ach tha iad air a bhith gu math cruaidh. Tha mi chòrd làidir pòsadh agus toiseach an dithis bheag beatha. Agamsa eòlas aoibhneas aoghaireil minsitry ann fallain eaglais. Ach tha mi cuideachd air a bhith an sàrachadh le laigse. Tha e duilich airson outsiders innse uaireannan oir tha mi a rèir coltais, a bhith a 'dèanamh uiread de rudan math. Ach ma mhàin chitheadh tu beagan nas fhaisge.
Agam leantainneach sgìths syndrome. tha fios agam, Cha robh mise riamh a chuala e an dara cuid mus. 'S dòcha air an adhbhar sin nuair a bhuail mi e a' faireachdainn coltach ri Sucker Punch na eagraichte Bout. Anns an toiseach e dha-rìribh ciorramach me- cha robh mi ach dùisg airson sia uairean a thìde gach latha, agus fheuchainn airson eile ochd bliadhn 'deug. Thairis air an ath bhliadhna robh e na b 'fheàrr fhaighinn, ach tha e fhathast a dh'fhàg mi slige na tha mi a chleachdadh airson a bhith. Tha mi a 'fuireach mu dheireadh seachd bliadhna le neverending sgìths. Tha mi honest chan eil cuimhne an turas mu dheireadh a tha mi a 'faireachdainn mar rested- mo bataraidh a chaochail, ach cha do teàrrds.
Cumhachd mar chonnadh gu bheil cumhachdan gach raon de ar beatha. Feumaidh sinn e airson a h-uile ghnìomh, a h-uile còmhradh, gach smuain. Agus an uair sin connadh ìosal, h-uile càil a 'fulang. Airson adhbhar air choireigin, mo chuirp cha leig dhomh refuel. An àite tanca lingers mo làimh dheis os cionn “S,” agus tha mi a 'feuchainn ri dhèanamh tro. Tha e dh'fhàg mi limping tro gach raon de mo bheatha.
Innis mi dhuibh na h-uile seo, Cha airson ur co-fhaireachdainn, ach gus dùbhlan a thoirt mar a tha thu a 'smaoineachadh. Dh'fhaoidte gu bheil cuid a 'coimhead air aig a' cheann-latha a chaill, an eu-dòchasach làithean, corra teannachadh ann mo phòsadh, agus a 'smaoineachadh, “Man, Guy seo a 'call anns a' bhad.” Tha e cinnteach gu bheil a 'faireachdainn mar a chall nuair a dh'fheumas mi atharrachadh mo bheatha planaichean fathast no innis mo mhac, “Daddy an ro sgìth a 'cluich anns a' bhad.” Bhithinn a 'laighe ma tha mi ag ràdh nach robh e eu-dòchasach agus a' feuchainn. gidheadh, Tha mi fhathast a 'cumail a-mach mo milis bhuaidh.
Chan eil, Chan eil mi an robh làidir de sheòrsa a bhuannaich; Tha mi dha-rìribh bòidheach lag. Tha mi le diofar seòrsa buannaiche. Agus tha amharas agam gu mòran de tha thu ro.
Le diofar seòrsa Buannaiche
Tha mi a 'dèanamh bhuaidh, ach chan ann air sgàth mo neart Fhuair e. My buaidh thachras a dh'aindeoin mo laigsean, fiù 's mo pheacaidhean. Chan eil mi a 'chùis a dhèanamh air Victor a naimhdean agus tèarainte na chom-; Mi dìreach a fhuair e. Tha mi buaidh ann an Iosa.
Paul chuireas e mar seo ann an Ròmanaich:
Mar a tha e sgrìobhte, "Airson do sgàth sinn gam marbhadh a h-uile latha fada; tha sinn a 'meas mar chaoraich a bhith air a mharbhadh. "No, anns na nithe sin uile tha sinn còrr is ceannsaichean tro ris a ghràdhaich dhuinn” (Ròmanaich 8:36-37).
Paul aithris Salm 44, far a bheil an Psalmist ighidh a-mach airson cuideachadh Dhè ann am meadhon na deuchainn. Agus Pòl a 'cleachdadh rann sin a' dèanamh a 'phuing nach urrainn ni a undo ciod a rinn Dia air ar son ann an Criosd.
Aon de na rudan as iongantaiche a tha sin an dèidh a 'toirt iomradh rudan uabhasach: ga mharbhadh, ga mharbhadh, Pòl ag ràdh fiù 's anns na nithe sin a tha sinn ceannsaichean. Fiù 's nuair a chailleas sinn, tha sinn a 'buannachadh. Fiù 's nuair a bhios sinn ga shreap leis seo a thuit an t-saoghail, tha sinn fhathast ceannsaichean tro Iosa. Tha beaga làitheil blàir chan eil dearbhadh againn dè thachair, air sgàth a 'chogaidh mar-thà air a bhith a bhuannaich. Chan eil ann a bheir sibh do-chreidsinneach dòchas? Ma tha sinn ann an Criosd, tha sinn da-rìribh comasach cha chaill.
'S dòcha, coltach rium, thu ann an seusan na duilgheadas mòr. Tha mi ag iarraidh a bhrosnachadh thu le beagan dhòighean mi a 'smaoineachadh mu dheidhinn seo fhìrinn.
1. Chan eil Dìreach Coimhead thu
Nuair a tha mi a 'caitheamh mo là a' smuaineachadh air mo laigse agus grumbling ann mo chridhe, Tha mi dìreach ag ithe mo mhisneachadh agus connadh mo meallta mothachadh dòchas. Nuair a tha mi a 'coimhead orm mi a' smaoineachadh mi air chall, ach nuair a tha mi a 'coimhead aig Iosa mi an cuimhne gu bheil mi a bhuannachadh. Nuair a bha ea 'chùis air a naimhdean, bha e air a chuir fodha iad às ar leth.
2. Chan eil Dìreach Coimhead aig Now
Ma tha mi a 'cuimseachadh air an-diugh no na beagan bhliadhnaichean a dh'fhalbh, Tha mi a 'bhuaireadh a' smaoineachadh a tha seo mar a bi e daonnan ri. Ach Iosa a cheannach chreidsinn rudan air mo shon air a 'chrois gu bheil mi air nach expereienced fhathast. Tha fios agam Dia là n-nis, ach tha mi a 'faighinn eòlas e furasta gu leòr an dèidh sin. Bidh e fiù 's thoir dhomh tur ùr bhuidheann agus cur air falbh a h-uile mo deòir.
Faodaidh sinn cuideachd a 'bhuaireadh gus cuimseachadh air an fheadhainn a rèir coltais, a bhith a' buannachadh a-nis. An fheadhainn aig nach eil an aon deuchainnean agus dhuilgheadasan gu bheil an-còmhnaidh a rèir coltais, plàigh dhuinn. Ach an sgioba a bhuannaich anns an treas cairteal chan eil e daonnan an sgioba a bhuannaicheas ann an deireadh. Tha mòran dhaoine a rèir coltais, a bhith a 'buannachadh an làitheil batail, ach tha iad air a ràdh nach eil earbsa ann an aon a tha a bhuannaich a 'chogaidh. Chan eil dìreach a 'coimhead air a-nis.
Sweet Victory
Michael Jordan fhathast aon de na sàr agus as mòr-chòrdte a bhuannaich sinn riamh. Ach tha buaidh nas motha a bhith air an robh. Agus cha dhuinn air dè tha e a 'gabhail a bhuannachadh a' chogaidh fhìn; -mhàin Criosd urrainn sin a dhèanamh. Tha e a 'chùis air a h-uile ar naimhdean dhuinn: gun, Satan, agus bàs fhèin. H-uile a bheir e gus pàirt a ghabhail san sgioba agus a 'faighinn buannachd bho buaidh air tionndadh o pheacadh agus ag earbsadh ann an Savior. Duine sam bith, fiù 's nas laige am measg dhuinn urrainn dhaibh buannachadh.
'S e seo an fhìrinn a bha ann mo chridhe nuair a sgrìobh mi na faclan seo ann an “Sweet Victory”:
Tha am buadhair Chan eil an tè a bhuannaich an t-seachdamh inning
Duaisean nach eil a 'dol dhan an fheadhainn a fhuair deagh toiseach
Nuair a tha mi ag radh mi a bhuannachadh chan eil mi a 'ciallachadh an là'n diugh tha mi ann an
Tha mi a 'ciallachadh an latha sin nuair a ghlas speuran seargadh-mach, an uair sin tha mi a 'buannachadh' adhbhar mi rioghachadh maille ris
Dèan cinnteach gun tagh suas lethbhreac den “Rise” nuair a thig e a-mach 10.27.14!


text:
- TIOTAL
- Clàradh Chàraichean Chataibh NS 256 gu NS 260, Màrt gu Cèitean 1915
- EXTERNAL ID
- Z_GB232_CS_3_9_1P35
- ÀITE
- Cataibh
- SIORRACHD/PARRAIST
- CATAIBH
- DEIT
- 1915
- LINN
- 1910an
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- Lìonradh Thasglann na Gàidhealtachd
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 4610
- KEYWORDS
- Cataibh
Clàradh Chàraichean Chataibh
càraichean
carbadan
baidhsagailean-motair
Clàradh Chàraichean Chataibh NS 256 gu NS 260, Màrt gu Cèitean 1915
Tha àireamh clàraidh gach càr sa Chlàr, còmhla ri ainm agus seòladh an neach-seilbh, modail a' chàir, seòrsa agus dath a' chàir, a chuideam gun luchd air, ciamar a bhios e air a chleachdadh, ceann-là a' chlàraidh agus, far a bheil e iomchaidh, ceann-là a chaidh a dhubhadh às.
Chaidh càraichean a chlàradh do John Sutherland, Dr. James Bertie Simpson, Donald Mackenzie, James Epps, William Wallace, Angus Rose agus Patrick Heard.
NS256 NS257 NS258 NS259 NS260


text:
Ceòl-taice don Phiàno
Cinn-latha: 01/04/19 - 05/04/19
Cosgais: £260 (£180 do dh'oileanaich)
Neach-teagaisg: Ingrid Henderson
Maoineachadh ILA ri fhaighinn: Chan eil
Clàraich an-dràsta!
Tha Sabhal Mòr Ostaig air leth toilichte an cùrsa ùr Ceòl-taice don Phiàno a thabhann am-bliadhna còmhla ris an t-sàr neach-ciùil, Ingrid NicEanruig.
Ionnsaichidh tu air a' chùrsa seo ciamar a bhios tu a' cluich còmhla ri òrain Ghàidhlig agus puirt thraidiseanta gu siùbhlach agus gu misneachail air a’ phiàno.
Bithear an dùil tron t-seachdain grunn phort ionnsachadh ach ’s e Ceòl-taice don phiàno prìomh amas na seachdaine; mar a thèid ceòl a rèiteachadh le diofar stoidhlichean phort agus mar a thèid ceòl a chruthachadh an làrach nam bonn airson a chluich gu misneachail còmhla ri cluicheadairean agus seinneadairean eile. Bidh cothrom agaibh cuideachd ur sgilean ùra a chur gu feum le bhith a’ cluich còmhla ris a’ chùrsa fìdhlearachd.
Tha an cùrsa seo ga theagasg tro bhith ag èisteachd agus gheibhear an ceòl sgrìobhte aig deireadh a’ chùrsa. Bidh cothrom agaibh clàran a dhèanamh aig an deireadh ma thogras sibh. Bidh agaibh ris na meur-chlàir agaibh fhèin a thoirt leibh agus thathar a' sùileachadh gum bi beagan eòlais agaibh air a’ phiàno mar-thà.
Mu dheidhinn Ingrid:
’S ann à Loch Abar a tha Ingrid is i ri teagasg na clàrsaich is a’ phiàno o chionn còrr is fichead bliadhna. Tha Ingrid air a bhith air an àrd-ùrlar air feadh an t-saoghail an dà chuid leatha fhèin a’ cluich a cuid phort agus cuide ri còmhlanan Albannach, a leithid Cliar, Glenfinnan Ceilidh Band, Blazin Fiddles agus seinneadairean a leithid Anna Mhàrtainn agus Maighread Stiùbhairt. Tha i a-nis na tidsear aig Sgoil Chiùil na Gàidhealtachd agus na h-òraidiche cuideachd air a’ chùrsa-cheum làn-ùine aig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, BA Gàidhlig is Ceòl Traidiseanta. Tha companaidh riochdachadh ciùil aice, Old Laundry Productions, a tha stèidhichte ann an Gleann Fhionnainn.
Tha barrachd fios mu Ingrid an seo.


text:
- TIOTAL
- R.M.S. 'Columba', 1908
- EXTERNAL ID
- GB232_HCA_D81
- DEIT
- 1908
- LINN
- 1900an
- CRUTHADAIR
- unknown
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- Lìonradh Thasglann na Gàidhealtachd
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 8346
- KEYWORDS
- aiseagan
eathraichean
soithichean-smùide
Caledonian Mac-a'-Bhriuthain
Cal Mac
Am Post Rìoghail
An t-Slighe Rìoghail
Seo dealbh-còmhdaich clàr-ama is fàradh bàtaichean-smùide Dhaibhidh Mhic a' Bhruthainn.
Ann an 1851, ghabh Daibhidh is Alasdair MacÙisdein is Daibhidh Mac a' Bhruthainn companaidh bheag luingeas thairis. Leig an dithis bhràthair dheth an dreuchd anns na 1870an bha a' chompanaidh air fhàgail aig Mac a' Bhruthainn.
B'ann le Mac a' Bhruthainn a bha an 'Columba', a chaidh a togail le J & G MacThòmais, is bha i a' siubhal eadar 1878 is 1935. Bha i còrr is 300 troigh (92m) a dh;fhaid is bha gruagaire agus oifis-postachd air bòrd. Chaidh a cleachdadh air an t-slighe eadar An Tairbeart is Àird Driseig, a bh'air an 't-slighe rìoghail' a chleachd a' bhan-rìgh Bhioctoria troimh Sligh'-uisge a' Chrìonain is Sligh'-uisge na h-Alba.
An dèidh làimh, chaidh ainm a' chompanaidh atharrachadh gu 'Caledonian Mac a' Bhruthainn', a tha a-nis a' seòladh gu 22 eilean


text:
- TIOTAL
- Sgeul nan Gizzenbriggs
- EXTERNAL ID
- HC_GIZZENBRIGGS
- DEIT
- 2003
- CRUTHADAIR
- Tain Royal Academy
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- Pròiseact Sgeulachdan nam Merry Dancers
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 136
- KEYWORDS
- Cultar
Beul-aithris
ceòl dùthchasach
bhideo
bhideothan
gizzen briggs
'S e beò-dhealbh a' cleachdadh Macromedia Flash a th' ann an Sgeul nan Gizzenbriggs, agus chaidh a chruthachadh ann an teirm an Fhoghair 2003 le oileanaich sa chiad bhliadhna ann an Roinn Ealain Acadamaidh Rìoghail Bhaile Dhubhthaich ann an Ros agus Cromba, ann an co-bhuinn ris an tidsear aca Mìcheal Rush. Rinn a' chlann obair an toiseach còmhla ri Roinn Beurla na h-Acadamaidh agus an sgeulaiche Martin Watssman ach an ionnsaicheadh iad an sgeul a' bhuineas dhan sgìre. An uair sin rinn iad obair còmhla ris a' bheothadair Daibhidh Mac a' Ghobhainn - a tha a' fuireach ann am Baile Dhubhthaich, mar a tha Mìcheal - agus Rab Pegg air an robh dleastanas cuideachadh le obair air an sgrìobt agus le obair a' chlàraidh. Tha guthan na cloinne air fad a bha an sàs ann rin cluinntinn, agus tha na h-ìomhaighean a dhealbh iad fhèin ag innse na sgeòil.
Bha pròiseact beò-dhealbh nan Gizzenbergs na phàirt de Phròiseact Seanachais nam Merry Dancers, iomairt seanchais trì bliadhna le Ionnsachadh agus Cur-seachad Coimhearsnachd Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd ann an Ros is Cromba, le taic bho Iomairt Rois agus Chrombaidh agus Crannchur Comhairle Ealain na h-Alba. Ann an 2004 bhuannaich am beò-dhealbh duais engage Scotland airson Ealain Sùla ann am Foghlam.


text:
- TIOTAL
- Uaighean cloiche ann am Manachainn Oransaigh
- EXTERNAL ID
- QZP40_351A_2_P271
- ÀITE
- Orasaigh
- SGÌRE
- Diùra agus Colbhasa
- SIORRACHD/PARRAIST
- EARRA-GHÀIDHEAL: Colbhasa 's Orasa
- DEIT
- 1776
- LINN
- 1760an
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- Leabharlainn na Gàidhealtachd
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 31139
- KEYWORDS
- taighean-cràbhach
manachainnean
uaighean
uaighean cloiche
Augustinianaich
ban-abachan
Chaidh an dealbh seo a thoirt o 'A Tour in Scotland' le Tòmas Pennant. Tha uaighean cloiche ann am Manachainn Oransaigh ri fhaicinn ann. Air a togail le na h-Augustinianaich tràth san 14mh linn, thàinig a' mhanachainn gu bhith na h-ionad cràbhaidh cudthromach do dh'Earra-ghàidheal is na h-Eileanan. Chaidh a stèidheachadh le Iain I, Tighearna nan Eilean, eadar 1325 is 1353, agus tha e caogad 's a naoi troighean a dh'fhaid is ochd troighean deug tarsainn.
'S e uaighean nan eileanach aosmhor a th'anns an dealbh, dhà dhiubh le ìomhaighean fir-cogaidh, a tha seachd troighean a dh'fhaid. Tha na h-uaighean cloiche eile de ghaisgich na b'ìsle, de shagairtean is de bhoireannaich. Ri an taobh tha fiogair cloiche cho mor ri duine agus tha iad den bheachd gur e ban-aba a th'ann. 'S e 'ban-aba' an tiotal a bh'air uachdaran manachainn-ban