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Carmichael Watson Project Blog: August 2014
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Friday, 29 August 2014. The North Uist Seal Hunt - Part 5. In our first blog post at the beginning of the week, we promised two ‘local colour’ newspaper reports about the seals of North Uist. Here is the second one, taken from the Inverness Courier. Of 27 December 1849: an anecdote relating to Heisgeir or the Monach Islands:. Tethering a Seal. – Harris. – I. A report in the Elgin Courier. The following year, on. Capture of Seals. –. The Macdonald estate had been trying to sell North Uist since 1848. ...
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Carmichael Watson Project Blog: May 2013
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Thursday, 23 May 2013. Luibh bheag bheag, luibh bheannaichte / A small small plant, a blessed plant. There are numerous accounts of plant lore noted in Carmina Gadelica. And within the notebooks at the Centre for Research Collections, and a previous blog. Highlighted some of the key plants for popular herbal remedies. This blog notes some uses for am mothan / pearlwort including a method for securing a spouse! The 'mothan' (bog violet? I think myself it was not right of you to go and do it! A Righ na gil...
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Carmichael Watson Project Blog: June 2014
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Sunday, 22 June 2014. A Mysterious Light on Hasgeir: The Teine Mór or Big Fire - Part 2. We’ve promised you another article about the ‘mysterious light’ seen on the rocky islet of Hasgeir off North Uist in October 1867. Here it is, as printed in the Inverness Courier. Or big fire, that it’s worth quoting in full. The Mysterious Light at Hasker –. 8216; North Uist,. 8216;In a former communication I had occasion to mention that on our western shores the water is shallow and dotted over with rocks and shoal...
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Carmichael Watson Project Blog: The North Uist Seal Hunt - Part 5
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Friday, 29 August 2014. The North Uist Seal Hunt - Part 5. In our first blog post at the beginning of the week, we promised two ‘local colour’ newspaper reports about the seals of North Uist. Here is the second one, taken from the Inverness Courier. Of 27 December 1849: an anecdote relating to Heisgeir or the Monach Islands:. Tethering a Seal. – Harris. – I. A report in the Elgin Courier. The following year, on. Capture of Seals. –. The Macdonald estate had been trying to sell North Uist since 1848. ...
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Carmichael Watson Project Blog: August 2013
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Thursday, 29 August 2013. Genesis Chapter 1. In Gaelic. On a Bone. Although the text is mostly very faint, two friends from Celtic and Scottish Studies, Abigail Burnyeat and Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, were able to confirm that the text is indeed Genesis 1, probably copied from an edition of. William Bedell's Irish-language Old Testament. Was it a demonstration of piety by the writer? Or was it deliberately created as an ethnological curiosity? Why present one to Queen Victoria? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Carmichael Watson Project Blog: June 2013
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013. Objects in Focus: Cas-chrom. Carmichael's collection contains a vast array of objects including a cas-chrom. A foot-plough, that is on display at the Museum of Rural Life. That literally means crooked foot, was called a cas-chaba. In Applecross only, and the head of the plough was referred to as meirgheal. L C Hopkins writing in t. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Came to his attention. The following is a pr. The 'caib' of the old crooked spade, ...
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Carmichael Watson Project Blog: Alexander Carmichael and the Island of Scarp - I
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Monday, 17 November 2014. Alexander Carmichael and the Island of Scarp - I. Recently we have heard quite a lot about the now uninhabited island of Scarp, An Scarp. Four square miles in extent and separated by a narrow but dangerous channel from the mountainous north-west shoulder of ‘mainland’ Harris. Firstly, in the Sir Iain Noble Memorial Lecture at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in Skye, Dr Hugh Dan MacLennan. Gave a fascinating talk about his mother’s native island, and the summers he spent there as a boy. Alexan...
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Carmichael Watson Project Blog: December 2013
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Friday, 6 December 2013. 8216;Gaelic Erotica’: Unveiled At Last. We knew about the article already. No. 1081 of Mary Ferguson and Ann Matheson’s Scottish Gaelic Union Catalogue. Edinburgh, 1984) is the bare entry:. GAELIC erotica. Paris: H. Weiter. 1907. 73p. 16cm. Reprinted from Κρυπτάδια X. Apparently only one example had been located in a public library in Scotland: a photocopy in the National Library of Scotland. Kryptádia: Recueil de documents pour. À l’étude des traditions populaires. 1859–19...
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