Mairi McFadyen This September, I’ll be teaching again on the Creative Connections online course for Tobar an Dualchais. It’s ...

This September, I’ll be teaching again on the Creative Connections online course for Tobar an Dualchais. It’s always fun to ...

Isabelle Law from Kylerhea on Skye captured photographic records of migrant rescue missions in the Mediterranean Sea last month as part of her work with the charity SOS Humanity. For… ...

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 ...

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In 2006, work started on building the first wind farm on Skye. On moorland belonging to MacLeod Estate, a few miles south east of Dunvegan, the original Ben Aketil project started generating ...

Folklorist Frances Wilkins on the beauty of a Gaelic Christmas hymn and the tales of emigration which lie behind it…… Emigration, whether forced or voluntary, by ...

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 on Tobar an ...

My auntie Mairi Flòraidh MacInnes who has lived all her life in Eriskay was saying to me recently as we chatted on the phone, “Chan eil mi cinnteach cò às a thog thu fighe, chan fhaca mi riamh do ...

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 ...

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 ...