Iona’s Namescape

‘Architecture is what you do to a building when you look at it.’ (Walt Whitman) In this blog I want[…]

On 1st February last month, celebrations began in Ireland in relation to St Brigit of Kildare, since that is the[…]

Thomas Clancy writes: Nollaig chridheil dhuibh uile bho sgioba ‘Ainm-thìr Ìdhe’! Happy Christmas to you all from the Iona’s Namescape[…]

Earlier this month I was on Mull with my family, and happened to climb up the magnificent hill called Bearraich[…]

Visitors have long enjoyed exploring Iona by themselves, both on and off the beaten track. Today’s islanders also offer excellent[…]

John McCormick writing in The Oban Times 15 June 1889 (p. 3) commented that in the earlier half of that[…]

In the National Library of Scotland there is a manuscript with the pleasingly rounded shelf-mark NLS MS 10000.  It is[…]

In this month’s blog I would like to explore a ‘factoid’ – a commonly held view which is not entirely[…]

Thomas Clancy wonders about the identity of the saint in the name of Iona’s medieval parish church. The ruined church[…]

Of all the place-names associated with the island of Iona, perhaps the one that has given rise to the most[…]