The writing of this blog is prompted by two circumstances: today, the 29th of September, is Michaelmas and as we[…]
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Names of the Month
September 2021 Sìthean Mòr (Grid reference: NM270235): In 1760 Bishop Pococke wrote to his sister that in the south-western part[…]
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Mairi MacArthur writes: “Cha b’e farainm a thug iad air an àite seo!” That’s what a Clachanach farmhand once said,[…]
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As the project reaches the final months of its first year, it seems appropriate to share more widely some thoughts[…]
Read moreBlàr Buidhe and other colours in Iona place-names
A series of Advent Tweets in December last year by @ChronHib (find it here) sparked this investigation into how colours[…]
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Mairi MacArthur writes: On 9th June 1928 – the feast of St Columba – Alec Ritchie wrote from Iona to his[…]
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