Tag Archives: gaelic

1997.221.35

Laminated sheet showing the 360 degree view from the top of Beinn Hynish.

360 degree view from the top of Beinn Hynish showing the islands and hills and their distance from Beinn Hynish based on O/S Digital Survey data produced by J. Z. Ferranti in 1994.

2002.160.1

Audio cassette recording of Hugh Archie MacCallum interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 28/9/2002.

Hugh Archie MacCallum talks to Maggie Campbell in September 2002 about the Cornaigbeg crofts, the crofters’ names and patronymics; old and new methods of farming, seaweed and its uses, cattle shows; shebeens, shops, cobblers, the grocer’s horse-drawn van; the old schoolhouse at Cornaig and the United Free Church at Whitehouse; the evil eye; the shipwreck of the Malve during World War I. Eòghann Èairdsidh ’Ic Chaluim a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul anns an t-Sultain 2002 mu croitean Chòrnaig Bhige, ainmean agus sloinneadhan nan croitearan, dòighean sean agus ùr air croitearachd, feamainn, fèill cruidh, shebeens, bùthan, greasaichean, carbad bùtha air a tharraing le each, an t-seann sgoil Chòrnaig agus an Eaglais Shaor aig an Taigh Gheal, an droch shùil, am Malve a chaidh air na sgeirean aig àm a’ Cheud Chogadh.

2002.155.2

Book of three Gaelic plays titled `Tri Comhraidhean`.

Gaelic play `Na Fasain Ura` written by Morag MacDonald which 1st prize in the 1927 Mod. (Morag was a teacher at Balemartine School and aunt of Flora MacPhail, Skipnish.)