Tag Archives: gaelic

2002.4.11

Newspaper article `The Quern-Dust Calendar – The Remarkable Father Rigg`.

Three Gaelic elegies about George Rigg, parish priest of Daliburgh in South Uist from 1894 to 1897.

2002.4.13

Newspaper article `The Quern-Dust Calendar – Where Religion Meets Superstition`.

The mixing of superstition and religion in Gaelic poems written by Father Allan MacDonald of Eriskay.

2001.198.1

Audio cassette recording of Angus MacLean interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Scarinish on 20/11/01.

Angus MacLean of Scarinish talks to Maggie Campbell in November 2001 about his time in the fire service after the RAF left, the first fire leader Neil Gunn from Heanish and his team, the Western Area Fire Service in the 1950s, using a Hathaway pump, the fire box at Taigh na Beairt in Scarinish, the new fire station beside the hotel, the first fire tender in 1970, the better equipment under Strathclyde Fire Brigade, several fires including two fatal ones and the improvements in the service.