Willie Urquhart. BY KIRSTY WATT “The Plock really wins, it’s just a mosaic of habitats!” Dr James Merryweather told the Free ...

Neil McRae BY JACKIE MACKENZIE A Skye man is currently undertaking a trek in the Cairngorms as part of a big fundraiser to ...

Hermione Lamond and Donald Jack with the paintings BY KIRSTY WATT Bonnie Prince Charlie has returned to Elgol – in the form of two specially commissioned paintings donated last week to the community d ...

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Ryan Dziadowic, originally from Poland but now living in Grimsay, looks at the traditional Gaelic concept of dùthchas and what it means in the modern world….. Dùthchas – a Gaelic word which carries so ...

This month’s Tobar an Dualchais / Kist O Riches contribution is from Mairi McFadyen. Mairi used to teach at University of Edinburgh working with students to explore the creative voices in the School ...

Gaelic psalmody is a beautiful, haunting form of music which is unique to the Scots Gaelic speaking world, now mostly within West Highlands and Western Isles and the Gaelic diaspora in our major ...

More than 150 young people from across Skye and Lochalsh took part in the annual Fèis an Earraich at Portree High School from Monday 6th to Friday 10th April. A week’s tuition in traditional Gaelic ...

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The political landscape in the Highlands and Islands has seen a major shift after Thursday’s Holyrood elections with three long-standing SNP MSPs ousted by the Lib Dems and Labour. The SNP lost Skye, ...

A couple visiting from Germany were delighted to sample a nip of Torabhaig Traigh from guide Domhnall Angaidh MacIllinnein. Photograph: Willie Urquhart. South Skye’s Torafest 2026 brewed up another ...

Dandelion was a celebration of growing, creativity and culture culminating in community harvest festivals across Scotland earlier this September. Ethnologist Mairi McFadyen was involved in researching ...