St Kilda 2010 Conference a great success
By Donald E. Meek Conferences are usually like the proverbial curate's egg – good in parts. The conference commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the evacuation of St Kilda, and held at Lionacleit, Benbecula, was an outstanding exception to this general rule. Organised superbly by the Islands Book Turst, it was excellent throughout, with a wealth more…
Local Girl Makes Good! – The Angus Macleod Memorial Lecture 2008
Kristine Kennedy from 13 Orinsay was the star of a sensational evening on Thursday 23 October when she delivered the 5th Angus Macleod Memorial Lecture in Pairc School, Gravir. Speaking in Gaelic on the subject 'A'Phairc – Sealladh Pearsanta' (Park – A Personal Perspective), Kristine looked back at her childhood in South Lochs, both the more…
The French MacDonald – Echoes of Jacobite and Napoleonic Links with the Hebrides
Launched at Faclan (The Hebridean Book Festival) on 1st September 2007 When Frenchman Jean-Didier Hache bought on impulse a 'MacDonald print' in a Paris auction in the 1970s, he had no idea what fate lay ahead: the beginning of close personal links with a remote part of the Outer Hebrides which would last a lifetime, more…
Report on Alexander Carmichael Conference 2006
by Ronnie Black (This report first appeared in the West Highland Free Press, and we reproduce it here with the kind permission of Ronnie Black and the WHFP) "THE LIFE and Legacy of Alexander Carmichael", a conference held in Benbecula from 22 to 25 July, was a huge success. That was the clear verdict of more…
Angus MacLeod Lecture 2005 Draws the Crowds
A wonderful evening! I wouldn't have missed it for the world! These were typical reactions from the crowd of some 150 people from all over the island (and one from Somerset!) who packed Pairc school in Gravir last Tuesday 24 October for the third annual Angus Macleod memorial lecture.[ The main speaker this year was more…