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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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Bha Iomain Cholmcille, an co-fharpais iomain eadar-nàiseanta airson Gàidheil, ga chumail ann an Gaoth Dobhair Disathairne agus ’s e sgioba na h-Alba a thog Corn Cholmcille agus Mná Uladh Còrn Sgàthaich.
Ann am farpais nam fear, bha latha fada ro na h-Albannaich le geamannan dùbhlanach an aghaidh nan trì sgioabidhean Èireannach a bha an lathair, Cumann Micheál Breathnach, Fir Uladh agus Na Gaeil Óga, mus cluicheadh iad an sgioba a b’ fheàrr.
Bha an sgioba fo stiùir Aonghas MacAonghais o GMA agus Sean MacLeòid o Chamanachd Leòdhais. Thòisich iad làidir an aghaidh Cumann Micheál Breathnach sa mhadainn agus gu math luath bha Somhairle MacDhòmhnaill agus Stiùbhart Caimbeul a’ nochdadh gun robh iad a’ dol a dh’obair ri chèile gu math a’ faighinn tadhal an urra. Bha an dithis sheann laoich ag obair air leth còmhla ri Pàdraig MacNèill às a’ Ghearasdan agus Uilleam MacFhionguin à Both Fhleasgain agus Camanachd an Eilein.
Aig tòiseach an darna ghèam an aghaidh Fir Uladh, dh’fhosgail Somhairle a chunntas a-rithist le urchair cho luath nach fhaca am fear-glèidhidh i fhathast.
Bha buaidh aig a’ ghaoith air a’ chluich, ach rinn na h-Albannaich feum nas fheàrr dheth leis a’ bhall air an talamh. Bha Greum MacIlleDhuibh agus Rhuairidh Dòmhnallach a’ dèiligeadh gu math le gach ionnsaigh agus bha am ball a’ gluasad suas gu Somhairle tro MacFhionguin agus MacNèill gu siubhalach. Chuir Alex Dunnings dà phùing shònraichte thar a’ mhaide-tarsainn airson an geam a chrìochnachadh le Alba gu math comhfhurtail.
Anns an treas geam, fhuair na h-Albannaich crathadh mòr an aghaidh Na Gaeil Óga à Baile Atha Cliath. Ged b’ iad an sgioba Eireannach a bu laige, ’s e geam glè chruaidh a bha seo. Cha robh Alba cho rèidh leis gun robh na manaidsearan a’ toirt faochadh do chuid de na cluicheadairean as motha, ach mu dheireadh thall rinn iad an gnothach le puingean o Jack Friseal agus tadhail o Shomhairle
Anns a’ chuairt dheireannach, chonnich Alba ri Micheál Breathnach a-rithist. As dèidh dhaibh an gnothach a dhènamh air Fir Uladh san lìog, bha an dà là air tighinn air sgioba Chonamara, agus ged a bha iad gann de chluicheadairean le daoine leòinte, thug iad dùbhlan mòr dha na h-Albannaich. Thòisich na Breathnaich a bu làidire agus chaidh iad dà phuing air thòiseach. Ach tharraing Somhairle tadhal air ais agus bha cùisean a’ coimhead gealltanach nuair a thòisich iad an darna leth.
Bha cothroman sònraichte aig Somhairle agus Pòl Duke an geam a chur à sealladh ach cha do ghabh iad iad agus an uairsin chaidh na Breathnaich air thòiseach le tadhal, ach rinn Duke agus Somhairle suas airson sin, Somhairle a’ dèanamh an sgòr co-ionnan le tadhal air a’ bhuille mu dheireadh den ghèam a thug an geam gu ùine a bharrachd, agus an uairsin Duke a’ cur pùing a chur beàrn ceithir pùingean eadar na sgiobaidhean as dèidh do MhacFhionguin sgòradh tràth sa chiad leth a bharrachd.
Fhuair na Breathnaich tadhal air ais air an fhideag sa chiad leth, ach chluich Alba anabarrach math san darna leth a chaidh gun sgòr agus nuair a chrìochnaich an geam le Alba a’ glèidheadh Còrn Cholmcille airson an darna bliadhna ann an sreath agus air an gnothach a dhèanamh air Cumann Micheál Breathnach airson a’ chiad uair ann an gèam farpaiseach ann an Èirinn cuideachd. Rinneadh gàirdeachas mòr leis an luchd-leantainn aig Alba agus chaidh iad air a’ phàirc ann an ciaradh an latha fo ghealach Gaoth Dobhair.
Chaidh duais an t-sà-chluicheadair a bhuileachadh air Somhairle MacDhòmhnaill as dèidh nan euchdan aige le naoi tadhail tron latha ’s e a’ nochdadh sàr sgìlean dhan òigridh a bha an lathair.
Thuirt co-mhanaidsear na h-Alba Sean MacLeòid “Tha sinn fear air ar dòigh leis an fharpais an-diugh. ’S e rud mòr a bh’ ann na Breathnaich a bheatadh ann an Èirinn, ach cuideachd gun robh na balaich againn uile a’ sabaid dhan mhionaid mu dheireadh agus ga bhuannachadh ann an dòigh cho math. As dèidh don phròiseact fhèin Duais na Gàidhlig fhaighinn, ’s e deagh sheachdain a bh’ ann dhuinn agus thug an deireadh -seachdain misneachd mhòr dhan a h-uile duien a bha an sàs ann. Ar taing do Phàdraig O Mianain agus Daithi Roberts o Uladh airson gach rud a chur air dòigh dhuinn.”
Ann am farpais nam bàn, chaidh an sgioba aig Catrìona Gibb air thòiseach le tadhal tro Christy Nic an t-Saoir à Loch Abair an aghaidh Cois Fharraige, ach thàinig sgioba Chonamara air ais. Bha Cois Fharraige air chall an aghaidh Mná Uladh tràth san fharpais, agus mar sin bha gèam doirbh an amharc aig na Ban-Albannaich.
Bha Kayleigh-Marie Woods eadar na puist sònraichte math agus chum ise an sgòr sìos. Bha sgioba làn de chluicheadairean a bha air tiotalan mòra a thogail le clubaichean mar Sleacht Néill aig Mná Uladh agus cha robh cus cothrom aig na h-Albannaich cùisean a thionndadh, ach chluich iad gu h-easgaidh agus lean iad orra a’ cluich gu cruaidh gus an deireadh.
Thuirt Gibb “Bha mi gu math toilichte le oidhirpean an sguad. ’S e sguad caran tana a bha againn ach fhuair iad eòlas gu leòr às an latha a bheir buannachd dhuinn san àm ri teachd. Tha e cudromach gum bi na cothroman seo ann airson daoine òga, agus bha sinn gu math toilichte gun d’fhuair sinn aithneachadh aig Duaisean na Gàidhlig.

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Dùn Èideann
'S e Dùn Èideann[2] (Beurla: Edinburgh) prìomh-bhaile na h-Alba (bho 1437) ach chan e am baile as motha - sin Glaschu. 'S e 453,670 àireamh-shluaigh a' bhaile agus 's e an seachdamh cathair as motha a tha anns an Rìoghachd Aonaichte. Tha Dùn Èideann suidhichte air an oirthir aig taobh an ear na h-Alba. B' e Dùn Èideann prìomh-bhaile sgìre Roinn Lodainn cuideachd.
Susbaint
Eachdraidh[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
'S e baile le sean Rìoghachd Bhreatannach a bh' ann an Dùn Èideann no Din Eidyn mar a chanar anns an sean chànan aig nam Breatannaich. Tha an daingneach fèin suidhichte air creag bholcanachd. Rè an linn-deighe, bha sgìre Dùn Èidinn fo raon dòigh a bha siubhal dhan ear. Dh'fhàg sin aghaidh dìreach dhan iar de'n creag agus earball truaill dhan ear (Is e creag is earball an t-ainm air an cruth-tìre seo). Air barrachd dh'fhàg e lagan air taobh tuath agus taobh dheas- a chruthaich da loch: Loch A' Thuatha agus an Loch Deasachd.
Tha "An Seann Bhaile" suidhichte air an earball, leis an Àrd Sraid na ruith sìos na droma dhan Chanongait a leanas air adhart gu geata Lùchairt Rìoghail An Ròid. Eadar Dùn agus lùchairt lorgar prìomh togalach na stàite: Seann Ceàrnag a' Phàrlamaid–a tha chun latha an diugh prìomh ionad nan luchd-lagha Albannaich (gleidh Achd an Aonaidh de 1707 rian lagh na h-Albainn) agus an Àras, sònraichte ris Giles Naomh, Seachad air Taigh Comhairle Dhùn Èidinn, lorgar an seann "Tolbooth" agus Taigh Seinnse "Deireadh an t-Saoghal" (a chomharraicheas iomall balla a' bhaile 's na meadhan aoisean, nuair a bha an Canongait na baile fa-leth taobh a-muigh na ballaichean). Ri taobh bun a' Chanongait lorgar "Taigh an Roid", taigh pàrlamaid ur na h-Alba.
Thòisich am baile a sgap am seachad air a sheann crìochan rè an 18mh cheud. Thogadh Baile Ur Dhùin Èidinn dhan thaobh tuatha aig deireadh an 18mh cheud, mu'n am a' ghluais muinntir an oilthigh dha thaobh deas far a bheil an oilthigh suidhichte chun latha an diugh.
Cultar[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
'S e cridhe a' bhaile Caisteal Dhùn Èideann air mullach Creag a' Chaisteil. Tha fèis armachd ainmeil ann gach bliadhna ris an canar an "Edinburgh Military Tattoo", far am bi saighdearan a sealltainn cho ealanta 's a tha iad ann an co-fharpais, ceòl agus màrsadh.
Tha fèis ainmeil eile ann airson dràma ris an canar, gu simplidh, Fèis Dhùn Èideann no 'The Edinburgh Festival' ann am Beurla. Bidh mìltean de chleasaichean a' tighinn agus a' gabhail pàirt bho fheadhainn ainmeil gu feadhainn neo-ainmeil a tha a' feuchainn ri ainm a dhèanamh dhaibh fhèin.
Chaidh am Mòd Nàiseanta a chumail ann an Dùn Èideann anns na bliadhnaichean 1899, 1910, 1919, 1935, 1951, 1960 agus 1986.
Spòrs[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
Tha an lann-cluiche nàiseanta airson sgioba Rugbaidh Albannach ann - Murrayfield - agus dà sgioba mòr ball-coise a bhios a' cluich anns a' Phrìomh-Lìog ; Hibs agus Hearts.
Tha Sgioba nàiseanta criogaid na h-Alba a' cluich aig The Grange ann an Dùn Èideann. Chum Dùn Èideann Geamaichean a' Cho-fhlaitheis ann an 1970 agus 1986.
Foghlam[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
'S e bun-sgoil làn-Ghàidhlig ann an Dùn Èideann, Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pàirce. Tha e faisg air Pàirc Pilrig anns an Lìte. Faodaidh clann a thig tron sgoil leantainn orra aig Àrd-sgoil Sheumais Ghilleasbuig far a bheil iomadh cuspair ga theagasg tro mheadhan na Gàidhlig.
Tha dìleab agus tòrr eachdraidh ann am foghlam a' bhaile agus 's e Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann aon de na h-oilthighean as ainmeil ann am Breatainn agus san t-saoghal. Tha dà oilthigh ùr ann an Dùn Èideann , Oilthigh Heriot-Watt, stèidhichte ann an 1821 agus Oilthigh Napier, stèidhichte ann an 1992.
Tha Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) an colaiste ann an Dùn Èideann a deas.
Daoine ainmeil[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
- Walter Scott (1771–1832). Sgrìobhadair.
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922). Dh'innlich e am fòn.
- Sean Connery (1930). Actair.
- Coinneach MacAsgaill (1958). Neach-poileataigs.
- Meg Bateman (1959). Bàrd Gàidhealach.
Sgìrean[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
Am Baile Àirneach | Àth na Sglèata | Balgreen | Brunstane | Cnoc Churraich | Cnoc an Rìgh | Comely Bank | Crois na Cìse | Drumbrae agus Gyle | Dùn Mheinidh | Gracemount | Gyle a Deas | Hailes an Iar | Liberton | Margadh an Fheòir | Sean Bhaile | Taigh an Ròid | Talla na Creige Nuadh
Baile-cèile[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
Aistean co-cheangailte[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
- Prìomh-bhailtean
- Hibernian
- Hearts
- Sgioba Rugbaidh Dùn Eideann
- Sgioba Naiseanta Alba
- Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann
- Pàrlamaid na h-Alba
Iomraidhean[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
- ↑ Brinkhoff, Thomas: “Scotland (United Kingdom) - Council Areas & Localities - Population statistics in maps and charts”. Air a thogail 12mh dhen Ghearran 2017.
- ↑ “Edinburgh/Dùn Èideann”. Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba. Air a thogail 23mh dhen t-Sultain 2017.
- ↑ Urząd Miasta Krakowa
- ↑ Annuaire de France
- ↑ SisterCities
Ceanglaichean a-mach[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
- Comhairle Baile Dhùn Èideann (Beurla)
- Visit Edinburgh (bòrd turasachd) (Beurla)
- Iomairt Ghàidhlig Dhùn Èideann
- Cearcall Còmhraidh Dhùn Èidinn
- Dùn Èideann nan Gàidheal (pdf)
- BBC Naidheachdan 2018-11-06: Beachdachadh air ionad Gàidhlig an Dùn Èideann (aithris-bhideo 4:23)
Foghlam tro mheadhan na Gàidhlig ann an Dùn Éideann
- BBC Naidheachdan 2016-02-29: “Ìre èiginneach” ann an Dùn Èideann
- BBC Naidheachdan 2016-02-29: “Dragh mòr” a’ mhodaràtoir mu Dhùn Èideann
- BBC Naidheachdan 2016-03-01: Moladh Dhùn Èideann ga tharraing (aithris bhideo 3:11)
- BBC Naidheachdan 2016-05-13: Ceum air adhart do FMG an Dùn Èideann
- BBC Naidheachdan 2016-05-24: Comhairle Dhùn Èideann “ceart”
Dùn Èideann · Dùn Dèagh · Glaschu · Inbhir Nis · Obar Dheathain · Sruighlea
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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- TIOTAL
- Ìomhaigh, dh'fhaoidte de dh' Alasdair Stiùbhart no de dh' Iain Stiùbhart, , Inbhirn Nis
- EXTERNAL ID
- GB1796_1999_116_004
- ÀITE
- Inbhir Nis
- SIORRACHD/PARRAIST
- INBHIR NIS: Inbhir Nis 's Am Bànath
- LINN
- 1910an; 1920an
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- Tasglann Dhealbhan-camara na Gàidhealtachd (IMAG)
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 11046
- KEYWORDS
- Inbhir Nis
Cladh nam Manach Liath
Stiùbhart
Mac Gill Eathain
Mac an Tòisich
Alasdair II, cladhan
Ìomhaigh ann an Cladh nam Manach Liath, Inbhir Nis, ag ràdh gur e an dàrna cuid Iain Stiùbhart, Aba Choldingham agus bràthair Iarla Mhoireibh, no Alasdair Stiùbhart, Iarla Mhàr a stiùir arm Shasainn aig blàr Arla ann an 1411. Tha Cladh nam Manach Liath cuideachd a' gleidheadh duslach aosmhor cuid de phrìomh theaghlaichean na sgìre - Cinn-feadhna Mhic an Tòisich ro 1606, Bàillidhean Dhùn Eain, Clann Ghill Eathain Dhabhaich Ghairbhich agus Clann Mhic an Tòisich Bhòrluim. Cuideachd, taobh a-staigh a' chlaidh tha colbh a thathar ag ràdh a bha na phàirt thùsail de chòisir na manachainn a stèidhicheadh le Alasdair II ann an 1233.
Faodar an dealbh seo a cheannach.
Airson tuilleadh fiosrachaidh mu cheannach is prìsean, cuir post-d gu: Highland Photographic Archive


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Tabhartasan Barantais
Tha Comhairle nan Leabhraichean a’ tabhann cuideachadh do dh’ùghdaran a tha ag amas air a bhith a’ sgrìobhadh sa Ghàidhlig. Thathar a’ toirt prìomhachas do sgrìobhadairean aig a bheil aonta le foillsichear airson an obair a chur an clò, agus thathar cuideachd a’ toirt prìomhachas do phròiseactan anns a bheil tomhas àrd de Ghàidhlig. Thathar a’ cur taic ri raon farsaing de litreachas, a’ gabhail a-steach tiotalan ann an cruthan didseatach is eile, a bharrachd air leabhraichean clò-bhuailte.
Dh’fhaodadh gum biodh dàil air tagradh mura tèid a h-uile fiosrachaidh a tha air iarraidh a chur a-steach na chois. Thoir sùil air 'Fiosrachadh deatamach' gu h-ìosal.
Cinn-latha
Bidh Comataidh nan Tabhartas a’ coinneachadh ceithir tursan sa bhliadhna ionmhasail (Giblean-Màrt) airson beachdachadh air taic-iarrtasan.
An ath cheann-latha airson iarrtasan: 15 Màrt 2019 (airson measadh sa Chèitean 2019)
An ath choinneamh de Chomataidh nan Tabhartas: 19 Gearran 2019
Bidh coinneamhan eile air an cumail:
- An Cèitean 2019 (ceann-latha airson tagraidhean: 15 Màrt 2019)
- An Lùnastal 2019 (ceann-latha airson tagraidhean: 14 Ògmhios 2019)
- An t-Samhain 2019 (ceann-latha airson tagraidhean: 13 Sultain 2019)
- An Gearran 2020 (ceann-latha airson tagraidhean: 13 Dùbhlachd 2019)
A’ cur a-steach tagradh
Feumaidh tagraichean – sgrìobhadairean, no foillsichearan às leth sgrìobhadairean – a tha a’ sireadh taic-airgid barantais clàr-iarrtais airson Tabhartas Barantais a lìonadh. Luchdaich a‑nuas clàr-iarrtais bhon làrach-lìn seo (faic an clàr-iùil gu h-àrd) no cuir brath gu Comhairle nan Leabhraichean a dh’iarraidh lethbhreac. Tha an clàr-iarrtais ri fhaighinn an dà chuid anns a’ Ghàidhlig agus anns a’ Bheurla, agus ann an cruth Word no PDF. Feumaidh iarrtasan a bhith a‑steach co-dhiù sia seachdainean ron ath choinneimh de Chomataidh nan Tabhartas ach am bi iad air am measadh ann an àm.
Fiosrachadh deatamach
A thuilleadh air clàr-iarrtais air a lìonadh gu coileanta, feumaidh gach tagraiche na leanas a chur an cois an tagraidh:
a) geàrr-iomradh dhen obair a tha san amharc agus caibideil no earrann iomchaidh mar eisimpleir;
b) tuairmse dhen ùine obrach co-cheangailte ri ullachadh a’ chiad dreach;
c) plana obrach;
d) lethbhreac de chùmhnant foillseachaidh/conaltradh sgrìobhte leis an fhoillsichear a thaobh a’ phròiseict seo;
e) no mura bheil cùmhnant foillseachaidh air aontachadh, fiosrachadh mu chonaltradh sam bith le foillsichearan gus ùidh anns an obair a thomhas (ainm an fhoillsicheir, cuin is freagairt sam bith a thàinig às).
Dh’fhaodadh gum biodh dàil air tagradh mura tèid a h-uile fiosrachaidh a tha air iarraidh a chur a-steach na chois. Ma bhios feum air cuideachadh a thaobh an iarrtais, cuir brath chun na Roinn Litreachais is Foillseachaidh.
Sgrìobhadairean ùra
Chan eil e ceadaichte do sgrìobhadairean ùra, neo-fhoillsichte cur a-steach airson barrachd air aon tabhartas barantais aig aon àm. Gus am bi iad air crìoch a chur air a’ chiad tabhartas barantais aca, chan fhaod sgrìobhadairean ùra iarrtasan a chur a-steach airson tabhartasan barantais a bharrachd.
Aon tagradh mu choinneamh gach tiotal
Cha tèid gabhail ri barrachd air aon iarrtas airson tabhartas barantais agus aon iarrtas airson tabhartas foillseachaidh mu choinneamh gach tiotal fa leth. Aon uair ’s gun deach tagradh a chur a-steach, chan eil e ceadaichte tagradh eile a chur a-steach a’ sireadh tuilleadh taic dhen aon seòrsa airson an tiotal sin.
Iarrtasan coileanta
Bu chòir tagraidhean coileanta, cuide ri pàipearan-taice sam bith, a thilleadh gu:
Màiri NicCumhais, Oifigear Litreachais is Foillseachaidh
Comhairle nan Leabhraichean, 32 Sràid Achadh a’ Mhansa, Glaschu G11 5QP
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Cuir ‘Iarrtas airson tabhartas barantais’ mar chuspair a’ phuist-dealain.
Fiosrachadh mun cho-dhùnadh
Thèid fios mu cho-dhùnadh Comataidh nan Tabhartas a sgaoileadh gu tagraichean taobh a‑staigh dà sheachdain às dèidh coinneimh na Comataidh. Ma bhios iarrtas soirbheachail, le tabhartas barantais air a thabhann, thèid litir fhoirmeil le cùmhnant chun an tagraiche tron phost.
Dè an seòrsa taic a tha ri fhaotainn?
Thathar a’ cur fàilte air iarrtasan bho sgrìobhadairean a tha a’ sireadh taic mu choinneamh cuid no na h-uile de chosgaisean co-cheangailte ri obair cruthachail anns na roinnean a leanas:
- Leasachadh air sgrìobhadh ùr agus tùsail sa Ghàidhlig
- Eadar-theangachadh bho chànan eile gu Gàidhlig
- Nobhail grafaig Gàidhlig a chruthachadh (dealbhan agus teacsa)
Thathar a’ toirt prìomhachas ri bhith a’ leasachadh sgrìobhadh ùr agus tùsail a tha sa Ghàidhlig a-mhàin, ged a thathar cuideachd a’ cur taic ri obair dà-chànanach anns a bheil tomhas àrd de Ghàidhlig a’ nochdadh.
Nobhailean grafaig agus/no sgrìobhadh stèidhichte air cruth comaig
Tha taic barantais airson dealbhan ri fhaotainn a-mhàin airson obair ealain a tha na phàirt mhòr is bhunaiteach de phròiseact litreachais (m.e. leabhar stèidhichte air cruth comaig no nobhail grafaig, far a bheil an sgeul no am fiosrachadh air a thaisbeanadh tro dhealbhan ann an cruth comaig traidiseanta no ann an nòs ùr). Gu h-àbhaisteach, chan eil deilbh-còmhdaich no obair ealain eile a tha a’ sgeadachadh leabhar no a’ cur ri brìgh an teacsa airidh air taic barantais, ach dh’fhaodadh gum biodh cuideachadh ri fhaotainn tro thabhartas foillseachaidh.
Iarrtasan neo-iomchaidh
Tha cruthan ann ris nach bi a’ Chomhairle a’ cumail taic tro thabhartasan barantais. ’S iad sin:
- Bathar shanasachd sam bith, a’ gabhail a-steach cairtean agus mìosachain, làraich-lìn agus blogaichean
- Geamaichean, apaichean, mapaichean agus cur-seachadan
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Leabhraichean no goireasan oideachaidh gu sònraichte airson sgoiltean (cuiribh brath gu Stòrlann)
- Leabhraichean stiùiridh teicnigeach no leabhraichean-iùil
- Foillseachaidhean às aonais, no le glè bheag (nas lugha na 10%), de shusbaint ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba.
Ìrean de thaic
Dh’fhaodadh gum faigheadh iarrtasan soirbheachail airson tabhartasan barantais taic suas gu na h-ìrean a leanas:
Na h-ìrean as àirde/ìsle de thaic
Cha bhithear gu h-àbhaisteach a’ tairgsinn taic barantais os cionn £6,000 airson iarrtas fa leth. Cha tèid beachdachadh air tagraidhean airson cuideachadh le cosgaisean cruthachail nas ìsle na £100.
Sgrìobhadh do dh’inbhich (na h-ìrean-taic as àirde)
- Ficsean (iarrtas bho sgrìobhadair stèidhichte*) – suas ri £6,000
- Ficsean (iarrtas bho sgrìobhadair ùr**) – suas ri £3,500
- Rosg eile, a’ gabhail a-steach obair sgoilearach no deilbh-chluich (iarrtas bho sgrìobhadair stèidhichte*) – suas ri £6,000
- Rosg eile, a’ gabhail a-steach obair sgoilearach no deilbh-chluich (iarrtas bho sgrìobhadair ùr**) – suas ri £3,500
- Cruinneachadh/sreath bàrdachd mòr, ùr (iarrtas bho sgrìobhadair stèidhichte*) – suas ri £6,000
- Cruinneachadh/sreath bàrdachd ùr (iarrtas bho sgrìobhadair ùr**) – suas ri £3,500
* Sgrìobhadair stèidhichte – san t-seagh seo, iadsan aig a bheil co-dhiù dà leabhar air fhoillseachadh
** Sgrìobhadair ùr – san t-seagh seo, iadsan aig nach eil barrachd air aon leabhar air fhoillseachadh
Sgrìobhadh do dhaoine òga (na h-ìrean-taic as àirde)
- Ficsean do dheugairean/dhaoine òga (nas fhaide na 15,000 facal) – suas ri £3,000
- Ficsean do dheugairean/dhaoine òga (suas ri 15,000 facal) – suas ri £2,500
- Sgrìobhadh do chloinn (nas fhaide na 1,000 facal) – suas ri £1,500
- Sgrìobhadh do chloinn (suas ri 1,000 facal) – suas ri £1,000
Tha na suimeannan gu h-àrd mar eisimpleir air na h-ìrean as àirde a dh’fhaodte fhaighinn airson cuideachadh le obair sgrìobhaidh cruthachail (agus chan ann, mar eisimpleir, mu choinneamh cosgaisean deasachaidh). Bidh na h‑ìrean gu h-àrd gan ath-sgrùdadh gach bliadhna.
Gus cothrom a bhith aig tagraiche an ìre as àirde de thaic fhaighinn, feumaidh na slatan-tomhais air fad a bhith air an coileanadh aig àrd ìre (faic 'Measadh nan tagraidhean' gu h-ìseal). Ma tha tuilleadh fiosrachaidh a dhìth a thaobh nan diofar raointean sònraichte agus ìrean measaidh, cuir brath chun an Roinn Litreachais is Foillseachaidh.
Ceann-latha airson ath-sgrùdadh: An t-Samhain 2019
Measadh nan tagraidhean
Thathar a’ measadh thagraidhean a rèir nan slatan-tomhais a leanas, a’ gabhail beachd air an fhiosrachadh a chaidh a thoirt seachad air a’ chlàr-iarrtais, cuide ri na pàipearan taice na chois. Tha co-dhùnaidhean a thaobh na h-ìre de thaic air an ruighinn le Comataidh nan Tabhartas an dèidh beachdachadh air na slatan-tomhais air fad. Tha e àbhaisteach gum bi neartan agus laigsean co-cheangailte ris gach iarrtas anns na raointean a leanas, ach bidh measadh cothromach air a dhèanamh an-còmhnaidh.
CHAN EIL an liosta gu h-ìseal ann an òrdugh cudromachd. Bithear a’ beachdachadh air na h‑ochd raointean fa leth.
1. Càileachd chruthachail
Dè cho làidir 's a bhios an sgrìobhadh/rannsachadh? An dèan e leabhar math a thèid a mhargaidheachd?
2. Ìre agus freagarrachd an t-susbaint Ghàidhlig
Am bi tomhas àrd dhen teacsa ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba? Am bi an ìre cànain freagarrach dhan luchd-cleachdaidh air a bheilear ag amas?
3. Iarrtas san amharc agus comas margaideachd
A bheilear dhen bheachd gum bi fèill mhòr air an tiotal? An e ùghdar stèidhichte a th’ ann? A bheil an obair a’ freagairt air gnèithean prìomhachais Chomhairle nan Leabhraichean airson na bliadhna sin?
Gnèithean prìomhachais 2019-20:
a) Rosg agus ficsean co-aimsireil ann an cruth leabhair agus/no leabhair èisteachd
b) Litreachas do dheugairean, gu h-àraidh air cuspairean ficsean eachdraidheil, ficsean saidheans no gaol
c) Litreachas cloinne sa Ghàidhlig bho thùs, gu sònraichte ficsean do chloinn aois 8-12 bliadhna
d) Ficsean gu sònraichte airson luchd-ionnsachaidh inbheach
Thathar a’ toirt prìomhachas do sgrìobhadh a chaidh a chruthachadh sa Ghàidhlig bho thùs (i.e. nach deach eadar-theangachadh bhon Bheurla/ cànan sam bith eile) ach bithear fhathast, ge-tà, a’ measadh iarrtasan mu choinneamh iomadh seòrsa obrach. Bidh prìomhachasan a thaobh gnèithean gan ath-sgrùdadh gach bliadhna.
4. Luach spèisealta
Mura h-eil coltas ann gur e tiotal a reiceas aig àrd-ìre a bhios an seo, a bheil feartan matha eile co-cheangailte ris an obair, leithid luach cultarach no sgoilearach?
5. Eòlas an sgrìobhadair
Dè an ìre de dh’eòlas a th’ aig an sgrìobhadair? A bheil iad ùr neo a bheil iad ann an clò mar-thà?
6. Foillsichear
A bheil cùmhnant foillseachaidh air aontachadh? A bheil an sgrìobhadair air conaltradh a dhèanamh a-cheana ri foillsichearan a thaobh a’ phròiseict seo, no a bheil iad deònach sin a dhèanamh?
7. Clàr-ama obrach
A bheil an clàr-ama sgrìobhaidh a’ coimhead ciallach?
8. Neart ionmhasail agus luach an airgid
A bheil na cosgaisean a’ coimhead reusanta? An deach airgead a bharrachd a lorg o bhuidhnean-taice eile?
Tabhartasan Maoineachaidh (2018-19) gu ruige seo
Tabhartasan foillseachaidh: 19 tabhartasan luach £29,638 gu h-iomlan
Tabhartasan gu foillsichearan: £14,000 gu h-iomlan
Gu h-iomlan 2018-19: £61,488 gu ruige seo
Ceistean a bharrachd?
Airson tuilleadh fiosrachaidh a thaobh tabhartasan barantais, cuir brath thugainn:
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Comhairle nan Leabhraichean, 32 Sràid Achadh a’ Mhansa, Glaschu G11 5QP
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Rathad-iarainn pop-up? Turas air an D-train @bonessrailway @vivarail #gàidhlig
Bha mi aig Rathad-iarainn Bo’ness is Cheann an Fhail an latha roimhe. Mar as trice, ’s e seann thrèanaichean glèidhte a chì thu an sin ach an t-seachdain seo, bha iad a’ dèanamh deuchainn air trèana a tha gu tur … Cum ort a leughadh
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Bo’ness – an stèisean as fhaide a tuath air Underground Lunnainn! #gàidhlig @vivarail @bonessrailway
Chan eil an London Underground dìreach a’ frithealadh Lunnainn fhèin – tha cuid de na loidhnichean a’ dol a-steach gu Essex, Hertfordshire agus fiù ’s Buckinghamshire. An t-seachdain seo, ge-tà, bidh trèanaichean an tiùb a’ ruigsinn Bo’ness ann an Lodainn … Cum ort a leughadh
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Seann trèanaichean ùra sa Chuimrigh! #gaidhlig
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An Dr Beeching – namhaid na Cuimrigh agus na Cuimris #gàidhlig
Bidh fios aig luchd-leughaidh a’ bhloga seo nach eil mi uabhasach deidheil air an Dr Beeching (Tuiteam gun Èirigh air agus Leac air a’ Bheul). Bha an Dr Olc na chathraiche air British Rail agus sgrìobh e an aithisg Reshaping Britain’s … Cum ort a leughadh
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Cadalaiche na Cuimrigh? #Gàidhlig
Seo an dàrna post agam airson Là na Gàidhlig 2016! Anns a’ phost mu dheireadh agam, bha mi a-mach air moladh a nochd bho chionn goirid gum bu chòir trèana-caidil no cadalaiche (sleeper) a bhith ann eadar Dùn Èideann agus … Cum ort a leughadh
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Ag aonachadh na Cuimrigh – Traws Link Cymru #gàidhlig #cymraeg
Tha tòrr iomairtean a’ dol air adhart gus rathaidean-iarainn ath-thogail ach tha tè aca nas cudromaiche na càch nam bheachdsa. Seo an iomairt Traws Link Cymru gus an rathad-iarainn eadar taobh tuath is taobh a deas na Cuirmigh ath-fhosgladh. Aig … Cum ort a leughadh
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Comhairle Lodainn an Ear
'S e comhairle ionadail a tha ann an Comhairle Lodainn an Ear a tha a' dèiligeadh ris an siorrachd tràidiseanta Lodainn an Ear agus Baile nam Feusgan.
Cruthachadh i mar ùghdarras aonadach ann an 1996. Eadar 1975 agus 1996 bha i na comhairle-sgìre agus na pàirt de Roinn Lodainn. Ro 1975 bha i na comhairle shiorrachd.
Poileataigs[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
Tha na Làbaraich a' riaghladh a' Chomhairle Lodainn an Ear. Tha 22 comhairlichean ann, 9 Làbaraich, 6 SNP agus 7 Tòraidhich.[1]
Iomraidhean[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
- ↑ “Political make up of East Lothian Council”. Comhairle Lodainn an Ear. Air a thogail 2na dhen Iuchar 2017.
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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1978
MCMLXXVIII
Tachartasan[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
- 21 an Lùnasdal - Taghadh Phàpa Iain Pòl I, ann an Cathair na Bhatacain.
- 16 an Dàmhair - Taghadh Phàpa Iain Pòl II, ann an Cathair na Bhatacain.
- 3 an t-Samhain - Neo-eisimeileachd Dhoiminicia bhon Rìoghachd Aonaichte.
- Bhuannaich Isaac Bashevis Singer an Duais Nobel ann an Litreachas.
Breithean[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
- 10 an Cèitean - Mylo, anns an Àth Leathann. Ceòladair dealanach à dh' Alba.
- 31 an Cèitean - Tamara Brinkman, ann an Laren. Actair às Na Tìrean Ìsle.
- 11 an t-Samhain - Ruth Davidson, ann an Dùn Èideann, Massachusetts. Tè-phoileataigs Albannach.
Bàsan[deasaich | deasaich an tùs]
- 11 an Gearran - Harry Martinson, ann an Stockholm. Sgrìobhadair às an t-Suain.
- 25 an Gearran - Calum 'Ruadh' MacNeacail, bàrd às an Eilean Sgitheanach.
- 9 an Giblean - Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, ailtire a chruthaich am baile Portmeirion anns a' Chuimrigh.
- 7 an t-Ògmhios - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, ann an Cambridge. Ceimigear.
- 6 an Lùnasdal - Giovanni Battista Montini (Pàpa Pòl VI), ann an Castel Gandolfo. Pàp bho 1963 gu 1978.
- 26 an t-Sultain - Manne Siegbahn, ann an Stockholm. Eòlaiche-fiosaig às an t-Suain.
- 28 an t-Sultain - Pàpa Iain Pòl I.
- 11 an Dùbhlachd - Vincent du Vigneaud, ceimigear às na Stàitean Aonaichte.
- Anna Arnott, seinneadair Gàidhlig à Cille Mhoire.


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1889
MDCCCLXXXIX
TachartasanDeasaich
- Chaidh Bangui, prìomh-bhaile Poblachd Meadhan Afraga, a stèidheachadh anns a’ cholonaidh Fhrangach Haut-Oubangui.
- 1 an Giblean - Chaidh Kobe (An t-Seapan) a stèidheachadh.
- 22 an Giblean - Chaidh Oklahoma City agus Norman (Oklahoma) a stèidheachadh.
- 2 an t-Samhain, inbhe stàite do Dhakota a Tuath agus Dakota a Deas.
- 8 an t-Samhain, inbhe stàite do Mhontana.
- 11 an t-Samhain, inbhe stàite do Washington.
- 14 an Dàmhair - Chaidh Armenia (Coloimbia) a stèidheachadh.
BreitheanDeasaich
- 16 an Giblean - Charlie Chaplin, ann an Lunnainn. Actair à Sasainn.
- 7 an Lùnasdal - Laureano Gómez Castro, ann am Bogotá. Neach-poileataigs à Coloimbia.
- 20 an Giblean - Adolf Hitler, ann am Braunau am Inn. Deachdaire às An Ostair.
- 21 an Giblean -Paul Karrer, ann am Mosgo, Ceimigear às An Ruis.
- 28 an t-Sultain - Martin Heidegger, ann am Meßkirch. Feallsanaich às A' Ghearmailt.
BàsanDeasaich
- 20 am Faoilleach - Bartolomé Calvo, ann an Quito. Neach-poileataigs à Coloimbia.
- 28 an Dùbhlachd - José de Obaldía, ann an San José de David. Neach-poileataigs à Coloimbia/Panama.


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- TIOTAL
- Gog Gog
- EXTERNAL ID
- WHA_XL01FI_EN
- ÀITE
- Tiriodh
- SIORRACHD/PARRAIST
- EARRA-GHÀIDHEAL: Tiriodh
- DEIT
- 1994
- LINN
- 1920an
- CRUTHADAIR
- West Highland Animation bho sgeulachdan traidiseanta
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- West Highland Animation
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 3340
- KEYWORDS
- Cùltar
Beul Aithris
Dealbhan bheò
clann, croiteir
peatan ainmhidh
cearc
bhideo
bhideothan
Chan eil sgath tombaca aig a' chroitear airson na pìob aige. 'S ann le pàigheadh le sia uighean as urrainn dha tuilleadh tombaca fhaighinn is chan eil ach còig uighean aige. Ach chan eil a' chearc a' co-oibreachadh leis idir. Tha tòrr ruith is tòrr tàlaidh a' dol air adhart. Feuchaidh e fiù's a' chuisle-chiùil is esan ga cluich airson feuchainn ris an eun a thàladh!
Tha am fiolm deilbh-beò seo stèidhichte air an sgeulachd Thiristich, Lachlainn na Suacain agus a' Chearc is air a h-innse le Dòmhnall Mac an t-Saoir Gott. Chaidh an obair-ealain is cuid den dealbh-beò airson an fhiolm a dhèanamh aig bùth-obrach deilbh-beò sna làithean-saora grianach ann an Tiriodh le buidheann chloinne à Tiriodh agus luchd-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig. Chaidh an dealbh-beò mu dheireadh a dhèanamh ri buille a' chiùil fon chamara air an sgàilean ioma-raon aig West Highland Animation le Niek Reus, am beòthadair. Chaidh an claon-chlò a chur an tilleadh anns an deuchainn-lann le èifeachdas neo-àbhaisteach is mìorbhaileach a' toirt dhuinn charactaran geala air cùl-ionadan dubha... B'e Marc Falla, fear-ciùil tàlantach, a rinn an ceòl.
Chaidh am fiolm a chraobh-sgaoileadh air Grampian agus STV. Mar phàirt den t-sreath deilbh-beò 'Bog Fliuch'. Chaidh a chraobh-sgaoileadh cuideachd anns a' Chuimrigh aig Fèis an Fhiolm Cheilteach agus aig tòrr Fhèisean eile.
Clann ann an Aonad Gàidhlig Thiriodh - Iona NicIlleDhuinn, Caron NicFhionghain, Sara NicHolladaidh, Craig Mac a' Ghobhainn, Adhamh Mac a' Ghobhainn, Cailea MacIlleDhuinn, Lynne NicFhionghainn, Morbhan NicAonghais, Friseal MacAonghais, Iain Mac Fhionghain, Mairi NicIlleChiar.
Cuideachadh aig a' Bhùth Obrach: Janice NicIomhair, Diana NicIllEathainn, Daibhidh MacIllInnein, Iain MacIlleChiar, Iain MacFhionghain.
Sgeulachd Thiriodh: Lachlainn na Suacain agus a' Chearc - Dòmhnall Eòghain Mac a' Ghobhainn
Ceòl: Marc Fallon
Faclan an Òrain: Flòraidh NicPhàil
Guthan: Ailig Mac Ill Eathain agus Sharon Kirk
Beòthadair agus Co-Stiùiriche: Niek Reus
Obair Stiùideo: Caroline Espenhahn, Jim Stirk, Donald McCoo, Shona Hynes, Allan Lundy, Hamish McNeil, Cailean Gordan, Emma Lazenby.
Deasachadh: WHA
Taic airgid bho: Maoin a' Chrannchuir Nàiseanta; Comhairle Ealain na h-Alba; Comataidh Craolaidh Gàidhlig; Comhairle Earra-Ghàidheil agus Bhòid; Argyll leader
Àrd-Riochdaire: Bob Kenyon
Co-Stiùiriche agus Riochdaire: Leaslaidh NicCoinnich


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- TIOTAL
- Cùirt A' Chonghail
- EXTERNAL ID
- GB1796_1999_116_XII_8
- ÀITE
- Inbhir Nis
- SIORRACHD/PARRAIST
- INBHIR NIS: Inbhir Nis 's Am Bànath
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- Tasglann Dhealbhan-camara na Gàidhealtachd (IMAG)
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 11496
- KEYWORDS
- bùithtean
reic
ceannach
Tha Cùirt a' Chonghail ann an Inbhir Nis eadar Sràid a' Chaisteil agus Sràid Àird a' Chonghail. Tha an soighne a' comharrachadh doras cùil Shivas agus Rose, a bha a' deànamh dhreasairean agus a' cur aodaich air airneis taighe, Bha iad ag obair aig 45 Sràid a' Chaisteil
Faodar an dealbh seo a cheannach.
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Thig còmhla as fheàrr air an làrach-lìn airson boireannaich a tha a dol anns na h-eileanan filipineach. Aggregate a tha Saor s an asgaidh le agad air fòn-làimhe no laptop. Lorgaidh tu an seo deasaich bho na h-eileanan filipineach deònach a bhith a ‘tòiseachadh a’ dol inntinneach daoine mar sibh fhèin. A ‘coinneachadh airson a’ cheann-latha an-diugh agus a fàs do coltas gu gu faigh bean no duine. Tha sinn air na h-eòlaichean ann an matchmaking. Tha mi ag iarraidh feuchainn air-loidhne a tha a dol anns na h-eileanan filipineach airson an-asgaidh. Thig còmhla rinn a-nis agus a ‘faighinn eòlas air a’ mhòr-chuid dhe na daoine inntinneach. Thig còmhla as fheàrr air an làrach-lìn airson boireannaich a tha a dol anns na h-eileanan filipineach. Aggregate a tha Saor s an asgaidh le agad air fòn-làimhe no laptop. Lorgaidh tu an seo deasaich bho na h-eileanan filipineach deònach a bhith a ‘tòiseachadh a’ dol inntinneach daoine mar sibh fhèin
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Seirbheisean-adhair gan tarraing
Tha a h-uile coltas ann gun stad seirbheisean-adhair eadar an t-Òban, Colla, Tiriodh, Colbhasa agus Ìle aig deireadh na seachain seo tighinn.
Thuirt Comhairle Earra-Ghàidheal is Bhòid, gun robh a' chompanaidh phrìobhaideach a bha gan ruith, Hebridean Air Services Eta, ag iarraidh subsadaidh a bha a' dol thairis air buidseit an ùghdarrais.
Ghabh a' chompanaidh na seirbheisean thairis bho chionn trì bliadhna, ach tha an cùmhnant a' tighinn gu crìch meadhan a' Chèitein.
B' iad hebridean Air Services Eta an aon chompanaidh a chuir tairgse a-steach airson an ath-chùmhnant.
Bidh Comhairle Earra-Ghàidheal is Bhòid a' cur subsadaidh de £2m ris an t-seirbheis thairis air trì bliadhna.
Bha a' chompanaidh ag iarraidh barrachd na sin ge-tà.
Fhuair iad cothrom tairgse airson seirbheis nas lugha a chur a-steach cuideachd, ach tha a' Chomhairle ag ràdh gun robh na tairgsean aca uile gu math nas àirde na am buidseat aca.
Tha a' Chomhairle ag ràdh gum faodadh subsadaidh nas àirde a bhith mì-laghail, agus nach biodh e a dhìth co-dhiù, leis cho falainn 's a tha na h-àireamhan de dhaoine a tha a' cleachdadh nan seirbheisean.
Tha an t-ùghdarras ag ràdh gu bheil iad a' dèanamh na 's urrainn dhaibh gus companaidh a lorg a tha deònach an t-seirbheis a ruith, 's iad mothachail air cho cudromach 's a tha i do mhuinntir nan eileanan, agus iad an dòchas gun tèid aca air sin a chur air dòigh ron t-Samhradh.


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Tha Comunn na Gàidhlig (CnaG) air cathraiche ùr a chuir an dreuchd. ‘S esan Iain MacAmhlaigh, à Uibhist a Tuath, ach a’ tha an diugh a’ fuireach air a Bhac. Leig Iain dheth a dhreuchd mar Stiùiriche Seirbheisean Soisealta is Coimhearsnachd aig Comhairle nan Eilean Siar nas tràithe air a’ bhliadhna agus bidh e a’ gabhail a-null o Choinneach “Mòr” MhicÌomhair, a bh’ air a bhith na chathraiche air CnaG o 2012.
Chaidh Iain a thogail an Uibhist a Tuath, agus chaidh oideachadh an sgoiltean Dhùn Sgealair agus Paible an Uibhist a Tuath agus an uairsin an Acadamaidh Rìoghail Inbhir Nis mun cheumnaich e an Obair Sòisealta an Institiud Raibeart Ghòrdain, Obar Dheathain an 1981. Tha Iain, a tha fileanta sa Ghàidhlig, pòsta aig Anna agus tha dithis a theaghlach aca, Marion, a tha a’ teagasg an Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu agus Anndra, a th’ air ùr dhreuchd, mar stiùiriche-sgioba obair sòisealta a ghabhail os làimh aig Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
Ann a bhith a’ seasamh sìos mar Chathraiche aig CnaG, thuirt Coinneach “Mòr” Macìomhair, “Tha mi air a bhi air Bòrd-stiùiridh ChnaG airson 9 bliadhna, 4 dhiubh sin mar Chathraiche. Chòrd an ùine rium gu mòr. Se obair inntinneach agus chudromach sa bheil CnaG an sàs, iad a’ libhrigeadh sheirbheisean do òigridh an coimhearsnachdan air feadh Alba agus, thar nam bliadhnachan, tha pàrantan agus clann ag innse dhuinn an luach a tha iad a’ cur air an obair sa agus a’ feum a tha e air a dheanamh dhaibh ann a bhith a’ togail agus a’ cleachdadh na Gaidhlig, ach gu sònraichte a’ toirt misneachd dhaibh an cànan a chleachdadh am measg an co-aoisean.
Aig àm far am bheil airgead poblach a’ crìonadh, tha sin ag adhbharrachadh mi-chinnt bho bhliadhna gu bliadhna, ach, tha mi a' fàgail ChnaG ann an deagh shuidheachdh, le Bòrd stiùiridh agus sgioba luchd obrach làidir. Tha sin dham fhàgail misneachail airson na làithean a tha romhainn agus tha mi a'guidhe gach soirbheachadh do ChnaG agus don chathraiche ùr, Iain Macamhlaigh.''
Thuirt Iain MacAmhlaigh, “Tha mi gu mòr a’ coimhead air adhart ri bhith an sàs le CnaG agus an luchd-compàirteachais eile ann a bhith a’ cur taic ris a’ Ghàidhlig agus a’ cur ris an obair a tha a’ dol air adhart an ceartuair gus ath bheòthachadh a thoirt air a’ chànan agus àrdachadh a thoirt air an àireamh sluaigh a tha a’ cleachdadh na Gàidhlig agus cuideachd an ìre a thathas ga cleachdadh bho latha gu latha.
Tha mi ag aithneachadh gum bidh dubhlain romhainn bho àm gu àm, ach, tha obair mhath a’ dol air adhart sna coimhearsnachdan an ceartuair agus tha am Plana Nàiseanta Gàidhlig a bhithtear a’ foillseachadh sna mìosan air thoiseach oirnn a’ toirt deagh chothrom tuilleadh fhoillseachadh agus leasachadh a dhèanamh air a’ Ghàidhlig nar coimhearsnachdan.”


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Paradise Island 2 Hack
Morehacks a 'toirt sibh an-diugh glè ghrinn agus feumail Hack inneal. Le Paradise Island 2 Hack urrainn dhut leagadh Paradise Island 2 glè fhurasta, dìreach ann an ceann tàmaill, le dìreach beagan cliogan. Bathar-bog seo air a leasachadh le sgioba de hackers proifeiseanta agus tha e air a ghealltainn a tha ag obair gu foirfe. Gu h-ìosal tha thu a 'dearbhadh.
Ma tha thu ag iarraidh leagadh Paradise Island 2 glè fhurasta agus, seo Paradise Island 2 Hack Tool 'S e bathar-bog airson perfect thu. Mur eil thu ag iarraidh airgead a chosg air buinn chruaidh ann airson a 'gheama seo, le seo leagadh urrainn dhut Cuir chuingealaichte de Coins agus neo-chuingealaichte de Crystals gu gheama agad fhèin. Mar sin,, ma tha thu a 'cleachdadh inneal seo feumaidh tu an cumhachd a thogail pàrras eilean glè fhurasta agus gu tur an-asgaidh. cuideachd, Paradise Island 2 Hack bheir thu Gun chrìoch Energy, Double XP agus All The Secret bònasan. Luchdaich a-nuas a-nis seo Hack inneal agus tlachd a ghabhail a h-uile na feartan seo.
Paradise Island 2 Hack Faodar a chleachdadh air PC no gu dìreach air do Android / iOS uidheam. Gu h-ìosal tha agad an stiùireadh airson tionndaidhean PC. Cuideachd, gheibh thu am faidhle le uile stiùireadh. Tagh a-nis dè an dreach a tha thu ag iarraidh agus a 'tòiseachadh a' Paradise Island 2 Hacking phròiseas.
Paradise Island 2 Stiùireadh leagadh (PC)
- Luchdaich a-nuas Paradise Island 2 Hack
- Ceangail an inneal agad airson PC
- Tagh do OS (Android / iOS)
- Tagh an dòigh co-cheangailte (USB / WiFi / Bluetooth)
- Cliog air a 'phutan' fuasgladh inneal
- Tagh mar a tha thu ag iarraidh a leagadh Paradise Island 2 le inneal seo
- Chur thuige an siostaman tèarainteachd (Proxy agus Anti Bàn)
- Cliog air a 'phutan Hack
- Chan eil dùin am prògram gus na Hack phròiseas deiseil
- Disconnect an uidheam agus a 'tòiseachadh air geama
Mar a tha sinn air innse dhuibh gu h-àrd, sinn deuchainn seo na inneal agus tha e ag obair gu foirfe. Gu h-ìosal tha thu a 'printscreen leis a' dearbhadh gu bheil sinn air a chur ris 99999999 buinn agus 99999 criostalan gu ar gheama, a 'cleachdadh seo Paradise Island 2 Hack:


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Naidheachdan 11:00m
27 An t-Samhain 2014 Ùraichte aig Ùraichte aig
Coimisean Mhic a' Ghobhainn
Tha Coimisean Mhic a' Ghobhainn a' moladh smachd do Phàrlamaid na h-Alba air cìs teachd-a-steach, agus cuid de na sochairean sòisealta, am measg rudan eile. Chaidh an Coimisean thar-phàrtaidh a stèidheachadh le gealltanas bho na trì phrìomh phàrtaidhean aig Westminster air tuilleadh fèin-riaghlaidh do Holyrood, nam biodh bhòt ann an aghaidh neo-eisimeileachd anns an referendum anns an t-Sultain. Ged a chuir Leas-Phrìomh Mhinistear na h-Alba, John Swinney, fàilte air na molaidhean, thuirt e nach eil iad a' dol cho fada 's a chaidh a ghealltainn aig àm an referendum.
Thèid cuideachd, mar phàirt de mholaidhean Mhic a' Ghobhainn, smachd air stòras Oighreachd a' Chrùin a thoirt do Phàrlamaid na h-Alba, le tuilleadh fèin-riaghlaidh an dèidh sin air an stòras sin ga thoirt dha na h-ùghdarrasan eileanach - sin Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Comhairle Arcaibh, agus Comhairle Shealtainn.
Ath-leasachadh an Fhearainn
Chuir Fearann Coimhearsnachd na h-Alba, a tha a' riochdachadh uachdaran coimhearsnachd, fàilte air plana Riaghaltas na h-Alba airson atharrachadh mòr air uachdaranas an fhearainn. Dh'innis am Prìomh Mhinistear, Nicola Sturgeon, gun tèid, am measg rudan eile, Stòras an Fhearainn àrdachadh gu £10m airson cuideachadh do choimhearsnachdan am fearann fhèin a cheannach, agus gun tèid cur às dhan fhaochadh a th' aig oighreachdan mòra prìobhaideach bho rèataichean gnìomhachais. Ach tha uachdarain agus oighreachdan prìobhaideach a' gearain gun dèan na planaichean milleadh air cosnadh agus eaconamaidh nan sgìrean dùthchail.
Prìomh Loidhne Rèile a' Chosta an Ear
Chaidh gealltainn do luchd-siubhail gum faigh iad seirbheis nas fheàrr agus nas luaithe air prìomh loidhne rèile a' chosta an ear eadar Alba agus Lunnainn. Tha seo an dèidh dearbhadh gun tug Riaghaltas na Rìoghachd Aonaichte an cùmhnant airson loidhne a' chosta an ear do Intercity Railways - com-pàirteachas eadar Virgin Trains agus Stagecoach, a tha stèidhichte ann am Peairt.
Craig Whyte
Chaidh Craig Whyte, dham buineadh Rangers aig aon àm, a chur an grèim ann am Meagsago. Chaidh barrantas a-mach na aghaidh bho chionn cola-deug, co-cheangailte ris an dòigh san deach an cluba a reic ann an 2011. Thuirt luchd-casaid gun robh iad a' feuchainn ri Whyte a thoirt gu cùirt ann an Glaschu.
Connadh Uibhist
Tha daoine ann an Uibhist a' gearain mun diofar ann am prìs a' pheatroil 's an diesel eadar Uibhist a Tuath, Beinn nam Fadhla agus Uibhist a Deas. Ged a tha connadh beagan a bharrachd air £1.30 ann an Ceann a' Bhàigh an Uibhist a Tuath, tha e còrr is £1.40 ann an Dalabrog.


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- TIOTAL
- Am Fìor Urramach Piers Holt Wilson
- EXTERNAL ID
- PC_STAND_CATH_029
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 30025
- KEYWORDS
- eaglaisean
clèirich
ministearan
easbaigean
Bha Piers Holt Wilson na Easbaig ann an Eaglais Easbaigeach na h-Alba do Sgìre-easbaig Mhoireibh, Rois is Ghallaibh o 1943 gu 1952. An dèidh dha ceumnachadh o Oxford, chaidh e gu Colaiste Diadhachd Wells. O 1912 gu 1914 bha e na sheaplan aig Cathair-eaglais an Naoimh Ninifhein ann am Peairt, agus às dèidh sin rinn e seirbheis cogaidh na sheaplain do na Feachdan Armaichte.
An dèidh dha barrachd seirbheis a dhèanamh ann an Sgìre-easbaig Chill Rìmhinn, Dhùin Chaillinn is Dhùin Bhlathainn, chaidh a choisrigeadh na easbaig am 29mh den Ògmhios 1943 ann an Cathair-eaglais an Naoimh Anndra ann an Inbhir Nis. 'S e an t-easbaig mu dheireadh a rinn a dhachaigh ann an Cùirt Èdein, lùchairt a chaidh a thogail ann an 1878 don Easbaig Raibeart Èdein. Bha Wilson cuideachd cliùiteach airson an obair tathaidh a leasaich e san sgìre-easbaig. Nuair a leig e dheth a dhreuchd bha a fhradharc a' fàilneachadh agus thill e a Chill Rìmhinn. Chaochail e ann an 1956.


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- TIOTAL
- Càrn an Iar, Clàbha
- EXTERNAL ID
- QZP40_2471_P048
- ÀITE
- Clabhalag
- SGÌRE
- Inbhir Nis
- SIORRACHD/PARRAIST
- INBHIR NIS: Crothaigh 's Dealgros
- LINN
- 2000RC
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- Leabharlainn na Gàidhealtachd
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 31566
- KEYWORDS
- càirn
Clàbha
càirn Chlàbha
tursachan
arceòlas
cladhach
tìodhlaigidhean
dùin tìodhlaigidh
leacan
clachan
Tha trannsachan an dà chùirn sheòmaraich air an suidheachadh a rèir seas-ghrian a' gheamhraidh, an latha as giorra dhen bhliadhna. Tha na leacan agus na tursachan cuideachd air an seòrsachadh a rèir meud, a' fàs nas motha nuair a tha iad a dh'ionnsaigh an iar dheas agus dol fodha na grèine meadhan a' gheamhraidh. Nuair a chaidh an làrach a chladhach ann an 1828, 1857 agus sna 1950an, lorgadh pìosan de chrèadh agus de chlach-theine agus cuideachd cnàmhan dhaoine a chaidh a losgadh. Tha e follaiseach gu robh an làrach seo cudromach agus 's dòcha gur ann do dhaoine uasal a bha e.
Chaidh an dealbh seo a thoirt à 'The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland' leabhar 3


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- TIOTAL
- M.V. Loch Mòr o Loch nam Madadh
- EXTERNAL ID
- PC_RAMSAY_005
- ÀITE
- Loch nam Madadh
- SGÌRE
- Uibhist a Tuath
- SIORRACHD/PARRAIST
- INBHIR NIS: Uibhist a Tuath
- LINN
- 1930an
- CRUTHADAIR
- Duncan Macpherson
- NEACH-FIOSRACHAIDH
- William J Ramsay
- AITHNEACHADH MAOINE
- 29716
- KEYWORDS
- An t-Soitheach An Loch Mòr
Squeaky Robasdan
bàta nan litrichean
Na h-Eileanan A-muigh
Chithear 'Squeaky' Robasdan, Caiptean an Loch Mòr, an seo le thaic ri toiseach na soithich aige. B' e caractar às a' choimhearsnachd air an robh mòr-mheas a bh' ann, agus gun teagamh sam bith bhiodh e a' còrdadh ris a bhith a' coinneachadh ri caraidean sna diofar phuirt anns am biodh an Loch Mòr a' stad air a slighe a Mhalaig, dhan Chaol, a dh'Uibhist agus dha na Hearadh. Chaidh am bàta a thogail dha Caledonian Mac a' Bhruthainn ann an 1930 agus bha i aig muir airson 34 bliadhna às dèidh sin