Tag Archives: Community

Tin Mail (St.Kilda)

Posted on December 7, 2014 by lorianapauli

By the late 1890s a unique system of mail dispatch had developed on the remote Scottish islands of St Kilda: letters were enclosed in a waterproof receptacle attached to a homemade buoy or buoyant object and launched into the sea … Continue reading →

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A letter to a dead Scot deeply concerned about tradition

Posted on July 5, 2014 by lorianapauli

In NIGHT FALLS ON ARDNAMURCHAN (*) Alasdair Maclean says: “For a culture to be worthy of the name, for it to succour natives rather than entertain tourists or entertain those who, in cultural matters, are but tourists in their own … Continue reading →

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5 Programmes in French about music and Gaelic culture in the Hebrides

Posted on May 13, 2013 by lorianapauli

Duncan MacKinnon, great Gaelic singer in Berneray http://www.rts.ch/espace-2/programmes/musique-en-memoire/4801024-musique-en-memoire-du-22-04-2013.html Jean-Luc Rieder and Isabelle Watson from Radio Suisse Romande have created a beautiful image of today’s traditional music culture on the Hebrides.  You will hear the voices of some well known musicians … Continue reading →

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Interview with Gloria MacKillop in Berneray

Posted on April 4, 2013 by lorianapauli

Gloria MacKillop arrived 46 years ago to Berneray, the ‘island of bachelors’, to be a relief district nurse.  Her plan to stay for three months and then go back to Australia fell apart when she met ‘Splash’, her husband to … Continue reading →

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Interview with Florence Pearson

Posted on December 19, 2012 by lorianapauli

Click to listen >  Interview with Florence Pearson Florence, artist and  craft maker living in North Uist,  shares how she came to live on the islands, her choice to settle here, how she experienced her childhood and teenage years and … Continue reading →

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Interview with Norma Neill

Posted on November 21, 2012 by lorianapauli

….. about living on the Islands, her passion for gardening and her engagement for  SUICIDE  PREVENTION. Click below to listen to the interview: Listen here: Kenna MacInnes  in Balivanich is the person to contact if you are interested in a … Continue reading →

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Gordon Wells, his Shakuhachi flute and language

Posted on October 8, 2012 by lorianapauli

This interview  with Gordon Wells, the Project Officer of Island Voices, is given in two parts. I. In the first part, Gordon speaks about his home made flute – the ‘ Gaelic Shakuhachi’, the Winter Blues and why he has … Continue reading →

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My poem of the month…..by Angus Reid

Posted on September 18, 2012 by lorianapauli

         What kind of country do you wish to live in?              angus reid    

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