November 2021 With the recent publication of an article on Viking Age Iona in Current Archaeology in mind (co-authored by[…]
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An Eala
An Eala: further evidence of the medieval ritual landscape One of the things that I was pleased to have a[…]
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In our blog for September, Sofia Evemalm-Graham reflected on some of the names attached to the hill called Sìthean Mòr.[1] […]
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The writing of this blog is prompted by two circumstances: today, the 29th of September, is Michaelmas and as we[…]
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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[…]
Read moreHow to arrange your Corpses
How to arrange your corpses: Saint Odrán and the replication of Iona’s Landscape Gilbert Márkus In the twelfth-century Irish ‘Life[…]
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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