Donald Sinclair (Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhàin) of Balephuil sings 18 Gaelic songs about Ailean Dall, love, Mac ’ic Ailein, quarrelling women, the Battle of Falkirk, sailing, boats and tobacco, talks about making whiskey, the bards in Balephuil and a preacher also called Donald Sinclair.
Donald Sinclair (Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhàin) of Balephuil sings 18 Gaelic songs about Ailean Dall, love, Mac ’ic Ailein, quarrelling women, the Battle of Falkirk, sailing, boats and tobacco, talks about making whiskey, the bards in Balephuil and a preacher also called Donald Sinclair.
Donald Sinclair (Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhàin) of Balephuil talks about meeting a Barra bard, playing board games, sings six Gaelic songs, talks about the meaning of some Tiree words, sings a love song, talks about poverty, paying the miller with flour, herring fishing, second sight, the use of querns and kilns, the mill as social centre and sings a grinding song and a rowing song.
Donald Sinclair (Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhàin) of Balephuil talks about meeting a Barra bard, playing board games, sings six Gaelic songs, talks about the meaning of some Tiree words, sings a love song, talks about poverty, paying the miller with flour, herring fishing, second sight, the use of querns and kilns, the mill as social centre and sings a grinding song and a rowing song.
Donald Sinclair (Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhàin) of Balephuil tells stories about bards, supernatural powers and fairies, gives an incantation to ward off the evil eye and sings a song about a girl accidentally killed during a duck shoot.
Articles about seers, emigration ship `Brilliant`, fishing competitions, poetess and pauper Janet MacLean, the school, the church, model aeroplanes, ducks, views on Coll and the Community Council among others.
Audio cassette recording of a talk by Gaelic poet Aonghais MacNeacail held in An Iodhlann in May 2001.
Talk ‘A Conversation with Poems’ by Gaelic poet Aonghais MacNeacail, 1997 Scottish Writer of the Year, held in An Iodhlann on 2nd May 2001 with introductions by Margaret Campbell and Dr John Holliday and music by Dr Holliday and Neil Oliver. Aonghais mixes readings of his poems and translations into English with stories of his childhood in Uig, Skye and his work as a film-maker and journalist. (Continued on AC258)
Audio cassette recording of a talk by Gaelic poet Aonghais MacNeacail held in An Iodhlann in May 2001.
(Continued from AC257) Talk ‘A Conversation with Poems’ by Gaelic poet Aonghais MacNeacail, 1997 Scottish Writer of the Year, held in An Iodhlann on 2nd May 2001. Aonghais mixes readings of his poems and translations into English with stories of his childhood in Uig, Skye and his work as a film-maker and journalist.
Audio cassette recording of Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talking to Dr John Holliday in November 1998.
Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talk to Dr John Holliday in November 1998 about the Heanish bard, sailors, the Land League in Tiree, cobblers, Donald Lamont and his family, boarded-out children, stories about Stanley Swan and Jack MacEwan, the history of Baugh guesthouse, stories about the owners of the guesthouse, the fever hospital, a boatbuilder from Heanish, the boats he built and the people who worked with him.