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Friday, March 12th, 2010
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Abhainn Dearg, the new whisky from Uig, will not be whisky until 2011 but thanks to the intrepid Leodhaisiach Mike Donald and his colleagues, a small cask of the new spirit is lying cosseted in a cellar in Glasgow. MacSorley's Music Bar on Jamaica Street will be the venue for ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
[singlepic=1081,320,240,,left]Comann Eachdraidh Uig played host last week to a visit from two experts on the Lewis Chessman, who hit the headlines in November with their theories relocating the find-site to Mealista, rather than Ardroil.
Dr David Caldwell, Keeper of Scotland and Europe at the National Museum of Scotland, and Dr Mark ...
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
From the National Trust for Scotland website:
The National Trust for Scotland is recruiting for an Archaeologist based in Inverness and on St Kilda. St Kilda has an outstanding historic environment dominated by 19th & 20th century remains with a time-depth that belies the archipelagos remote North Atlantic position and it ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Press release from Buidheann Leasachaidh Ionad Hiort (The St Kilda Centre Development Group), 3 February 2010:
A public meeting in Uig, Lewis, this week formally established an organisation to pursue the remit of creating the St Kilda Centre/Ionad Hiort as a major visitor attraction for the Western Isles.
The initiative follows the ...
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
From the Scotsman, 17 January 2010:
THE owners of one of the remotest shops in the country were celebrating yesterday after a "mystery millionaire" bought a new £16,000 delivery van to ensure the community does not run out of stock.
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
St Kilda, one of only 24 dual-status World Heritage Sites, is management by the National Trust for Scotland, which is revising its five-year Management Plan for the islands and seeking input from stakeholders on a number of issues.
Responses are invited from anyone with an interest in St Kilda: you don't ...
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
A statement from the Uig St Kilda group, 17 Nov 2009. More on the issue here and Uig's vision here.
We are very pleased that the Working Group has confirmed its recommendation of Mangurstadh as the location for Ionad Hiort/the St Kilda Centre. It is particularly welcome that Jura Consultants have ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
From the Press & Journal, 16 February 2009:
An image of a bygone era on the Hebridean island of St Kilda features on a banknote which enters circulation today.
The picture features ancestors of father and son Norman and John Gillies.
They appear on a new Clydesdale Bank £5 note, sitting outside a ...
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
A new study of the Uig Chessmen published last week by Dr David Caldwell et al. in Mediæval Archaeology has been getting a lot of press coverage (for instance on the BBC and in the Stornoway Gazette), particularly for the suggestion that the hoard may not actually have been found ...
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
An article published in Mediaeval Archaeology this week raises some questions about the origins of the Uig Chessmen. From the BBC today:
New research has cast doubt on traditional theories about the historic Lewis Chessmen. The 93 pieces - currently split between museums in Edinburgh and London - were discovered on ...
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The press release (3 November 2009) from the Uig community on the announcement of the St Kilda Centre decision. Detail of the Uig vision for Ionad Hiort is now on its own page, where updates will also appear.
The community group in the Uig area of Lewis which has promoted the ...
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
After months of consultation, Mangurstadh in Uig has been recommended as the preferred site for the proposed St Kilda Centre. From Hebrides News:
Following an independent feasibility study, funded by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and LEADER, the St Kilda Centre Working Group has announced the recommendations made ...
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Uig is vying with North Uist and Harris to be the site of the proposed St Kilda Centre. Our Uig location is the Geodha Sgoillte, between Mangurstadh and Islivig where the road is closest to the cliff edge, on a brownsite bearing the scant remains of a wartime radar station.
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Latha Hiort is 29 August, the first St Kilda Day marking (as part of Homecoming Scotland 2009) the anniversary of the day the last natives of the island evacuated it forever in 1930. A programme of events has been organised by Pròiseact nan Ealan (the Gaelic Arts Agency), producers of ...
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