TOBAR AN DUALCHAIS: Remembering Iain Fhionnlaigh – the Berneray fieldworker
For the latest feature from the Tobar an Dualchais project, Liam Alastair Crouse examines the life and work of Ian Paterson who was key in helping to collect and document…
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TOBAR AN DUALCHAIS: A visit to Canna, South Uist and Barra in 1961
Below is a first-hand account of visits made during the summer of 1961 to Gaelic-speaking tradition bearers and field collectors in Canna and South Uist whose materials are now recognised…
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE HEBRIDES: The rising sea and an eerily prophetic tradition
Liam Alastair Crouse, a PhD student at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI, considers the impact of sea-level rise in South Uist, where he currently lives, through the lens of recordings available…
TOBAR AN DUALCHAIS: Time and our moving wells of culture
James Oliver (Seumas Chatriona Dhomhnuill Aonghais Bhig) is from Glendale in Skye. He is currently based in Birrarangga/Melbourne, where he works at RMIT University, but here through the Tobar an…
Traditional journey of the swelling hag
Liam Alastair Crouse is a first-year PhD student at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI studying the folklore of Uist in partnership with the Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches digital archive. This…
Gìsearachd, Cabbage Stalks and Egg Whites: Halloweens Past from the Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches Archive
The WHFP is to include a new monthly feature in partnership with Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches, Scotland’s national digital sound archive, currently containing some 43,000 individual recordings of stories,…