Hermione Lamond and Donald Jack with the paintings BY KIRSTY WATT Bonnie Prince Charlie has returned to Elgol – in the form ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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LIAM ALASTAIR CROUSE on what the recordings on the Tobar an Dualchais website tell us about how the environment can shape cultural practice….. Like many coastal areas in the Highlands and Islands of ...

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 ...

Barra and Benbecula hosted a mini-Olympics last week as five young cousins battled the wild weather to raise an amazing £3,000 for families half a world away. The cousins travelled more than 60 ...

Tobar and Dualchais includes some wonderful examples of spiritual songs composed by female bards, writes FRANCES WILKINS…. The Gàidhealtachd is full of outstanding female bards and singers, and this ...