Book Week Scotland  takes place this week, so we thought we'd mark it with excerpts from the extraordinary creation that is Carmina Gade...

Prince Charles Edward Stuart Many would perhaps consider one of the most popular Jacobite songs out of more than just a few as An Fhìd...

Howbeg, South Uist Many traditional tales of Coinneach Odhar or the so-called Brahan Seer were floating around the isles when Alexander C...

Otter / Bèist D(h)ubh or Dòbhran It is perhaps not a well-known fact about Alexander Carmichael that he planned to publish a natural hist...

Silver Water A well-known cure for any ailing cow was picked up by Alexander Carmichael from John Cameron (1805–1889) in Borve, Barra. Th...

This short anecdote about the last of the Vikings in Fuday, lying just off Barra, was probably collected by Alexander Carmichael from the fa...

A rather intriguing as well as an important tradition noted down by Alexander Carmichael probably came by way of a Uist reciter. This short ...

Archaeological remains, particularly those of an ecclesiastical nature, held quite a fascination for Alexander Carmichael. On 5 March 1869, ...

As indicated in a previous blog, Alexander Carmichael contributed another long article to The Highlander  – it seems that he was unfamiliar ...

There can be little doubt that one of the most powerful, heart-rending and beautiful laments that can be played upon the Great Highland Bagp...

Ancient artefacts as well as buildings held a particular fascination for Alexander Carmichael and when the opportunity arose he would ask hi...

A number of fairy traditions talk of the fairies kidnapping infants – these are the changeling stories that are fairly common – or of the fa...

Of course Alexander Carmichael was not at all averse to picking up amusing little anecdotes as the following story testifies: Calum Gobha w...

Next Monday, 25 January 2010, Dr Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, Senior Researcher on the project, will give a seminar to the Scottish Catholic ...

The tradition bearers of both South Uist and Barra told Calum Maclean of what they had heard about Ewen MacLachlan (c. 1799–1880) when he w...