Tag Archives: gaelic

1997.234.1

Audio cassette of a BBC Radio programme with Dr John MacInness talking to Hugh MacLean and Donald Archie Kennedy about Donald Sinclair of Balephuil recorded in 1995.

BBC Radio programme broadcast in 1995 with Dr John MacInnes of the Scottish School of Studies talking to Hugh MacLean and Donald Archie Kennedy about the life and songs of Donald Sinclair (Dhòmhnall Chaluim Bhain) of Balephuil, with extracts of previous recordings of Domhnall Chaluim Bhain singing his own songs and talking about Captain Donald MacKinnon and the Great China Tea Race, second sight, curses and healing powers.
BBC program Rèidio air a chur a mach ann an 1995 le Dotair Iain Mac Aonghais a Sgoil Eòlais na h-Alba a bruidhinn ri Eòghann Mac ’illeathainn agus Dòmhnall Èairdsidh Mac Ualraig mu beatha agus òrain Dhòmhnaill Chaluim Bhàin a Baile Phuill, le giorradan seann clàran de Dòmhnall Chaluim Bhàin a’ seinn òrain, a’ bruidhinn mu ’n Sgiobair Dòmhnall Mac Fhionghainn agus an Reis Mhòr an Ti Shina, an dath shealladh, guidheachan agus comas leigheis.

1997.235.1

Audio cassette recording of Seumas na Croige with Alan Boyd.

Alan Boyd talks to James MacDonald (Seumas na Croige) of West Hynish about his sea-faring days and being shipwrecked in World War I, his schooldays at Balemartine School, the people of West Hynish and Bail’ Ur, their nicknames and genealogy, fishing and different types of seaweed, thatched houses, healing powers, Captain Donald MacKinnon of the Great China Tea Race, and place-names in Balephuil and West Hynish. Gàidhlig neo-mhodail: Tha Ailean Bòid a’ bruidhinn ri Seumas Mac Dhòmhnaill (Seumas na Croige) as na Cùiltean mu na làithean aige aig fairge agus mar a chaidh am bàta air an robh e air na sgeirean ’sa Cheud Chogadh, làithean sgoile ann am Baile Mhàrtainn, muinntir nan Cùiltean agus am Bail’ Ùr, a far-ainm agus an sloinneadh aca, iasgach, deifir sheòrsa feamainn, taighean tugha, comasan leigheis, an sgiobair Dòmhnall Mac Fhionghainn, fear Reis Mhòr an Ti Shina agus ainmean-aite ann am Baile Phuill agus na Cùiltean

2002.177.1

Audio cassette recording of John MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig, and John Fletcher, Balemartine, interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 2/112002.

John MacKinnon (Iain Aonghais) of Kilmoluaig and John Fletcher (Iain Chaluim) of Balemartine talk to Maggie Campbell in November 2002 about the Hynish complex built by the Lighthouse Commission, the names and genealogy of the people who lived there, the work involved in its renovation, the earlier water sources, the scales and weighing of stone blocks taken by boat to Skerryvore during its construction and the skill of Alan Stevenson. Tha Iain Aonghais a Cillmoluaig agus Iain an Fhleisteir a Baile Mhàrtainn a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul anns an t-Samhain 2002 mu obair na togalaichean ann an Haoidhnis a bha air an togail aig Ùghdarras nan Taighean Solus, ainmean agus an sloinntearachd aig na daoine a bha fuireach an sin, an obair a bha co-cheangailte ris an nuadhachadh, màthair-uisge roimhe seo, tomhas agus cudthrom nan clachan a bha air an toir a mach gun Sgeir Mhòr ann am bata aig an àm a’ togail agus sgil Alain Steapanach.