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[…]
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Thomas Owen Clancy On the Feast of St Columba (9th June), it seems appropriate to think a bit about the[…]
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How to arrange your corpses: Saint Odrán and the replication of Iona’s Landscape Gilbert Márkus In the twelfth-century Irish ‘Life[…]
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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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There is a problem with looking at very early sources for evidence of Iona place-names. Well there are several, but[…]
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Welcome to the first blog on the Iona’s Namescape website, which we are posting on 7th December, the traditional day[…]
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