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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Friday, March 13th, 2009
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From an article by Dave Roberts with Norman Macaulay, John Macdonald and Donald Maciver.
In the Seaforth Muniments, there are letters in which various people had recognized the need for a safe anchorage for the larger boats in Camus Uig. Representations were made to the Fisheries Board, and a plan and specification ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
From Uig, A Hebridean Parish, by HA Moisley and the Geographical Field Group, 1960.
The crofting population of Uig started the second half of the nineteenth century with far less land than had been occupied by their forebears fifty years before, and, although famine, clearance and emigration had slightly reduced the ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
From Sanais, 1988, with some additions.
The first school in the Western Isles was founded shortly after 1610, when the Seaforth Mackenzies gained possession of the island, and in 1680, a report by 'Indweller' says that the Seaforth school had done much good, not only for Lewis but also for the ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
A series of articles on the Old Soldiers of Uig appeared in the Comann Eachdraidh Uig publication, Sanais, in the 1980s, from which this is an extract.
John Munro, Iain Mac a' Mhinisteir, was the only son of the Rev Hugh Munro, minister at Bailenacille for fifty years; a son of ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Thanks to Murdag, and to Finlay for the identification.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Many thanks once again to Robin Forrest for providing these wonderful, and previously unknown to us, pictures of Uig in 1964-65, taken by his father Sam Forrest on Land Court business. Some things have changed... some have not!
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
William Matheson, Mac Gille Chaluim, wrote extensively of his own family in Uig:
Malcolm Matheson [a younger son of Donald Ruadh (or Ban) Matheson, of Kneep and Valtos] known as Calum Ruadh or Calum Mòr, was tenant in Carnish when John Nicolson was tacksman. In his time the population of the ...
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
From an article in Uig News by Dave Roberts.
It appears that shielings were constructed so that one airigh could easily be seen from another, but it is said that very often the girls from a number of shielings would sleep in one building for company. The ancient shieling grounds for Brenish, ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
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This week the Comann Eachdraidh was pleased to welcome Mr and Mrs Jack Duncan from Michigan, USA, on their first visit to Uig. Jack is the great grandson of "An Irish", Calum Macritchie, a well-known character in his day and one of the leaders of the Reef Raiders in 1913. Jack's grandparents ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Mac an Irish, a dance and pipe tune (click for more; music courtesy of Sven Axelsson) was evidently written about a son of "An Irish", Calum Macritchie (b1845) of Carnish, Aird, Kneep and Reef, and the eldest of the Reef Raiders. He wasn't Irish of course, but so called as he was always a rebel.
We don't know which ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Donald Maciver was born in Crowlista in 1857, son of John Maciver, the Gaelic schoolmaster and missionary, and they lived in Ness and then South Lochs. Donald also became a teacher, at Lemreway (see the school log), Breasclete and latterly Bayble.
The family had come from Carnish, just across the sands, ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
All identified now, thanks to Dolly.
Teacher Babag Smith, Carishader
Back: 1. Neil Morrison Brenish
2. Dolly Norma Morrison 12 Ardroil
3. Kathleen Morrison Mangersta
4. Chrissie M Matheson Ardroil
5. Catherine Macdonald 3 Ardroil
6. Nan Matheson Ardroil
7. Angus M Montgomery Islivig (Monty)
Front: 8. DJ Montgomery Islivig
9. Flora Shaw Carnish
10. Lena Matheson Ardroil
11. Murdina Maciver Ardroil
12. Cathie Buchanan Brenish
13. Murdina ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Letter to the Gazette, 5 May 1921:
Sir - I observed in your columns the other week an interesting article re the origin of the Clan Macaulay and Lord Macaulay's ancestors. We have no definite historical proof that the Macaulays are of a Scandinavian origin. The name Macaulay is admittedly pure ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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