Berneray, Harris / Be àrnaraigh na Hearadh Anecdotes and legendary accounts of Bonnie Prince Charlie were legion in the Western Isles and...

Neil Gillies, Niall Mhìcheil Nìll  Gus crìoch a chur air an naidheachd mun phlàigh a bha uaireigin ann am Miughalaigh, seo agaibh an còr...

Neil Gillies, Niall Mhìcheil Nìll Chan eil e idir na iongnadh nach do leig cuid de na seanchaidhean Bharrach air dìochuimhne na thachair ...

Mingulay / Miughalaigh 1888 Another short historical anecdote taken down by Alexander Carmichael probably from the recitation of Roderick...

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

As is well known the Hanoverian government, in the wake of Culloden in 1746, took some very heavy handed reprisals in order to put a stop to...

One of the most renowned of the MacNeil chiefs of Barra, Ruairidh an Tartair ( fl. 1634), once challenged Rob Roy MacGregor (1671–1734) to ...

Historical legends were (and still are to some extent) a common enough type of story to met with in the Highlands and Islands. Some tradi...

Sometimes an oblique entry, not to mention an unfinished one, noted down by Alexander Carmichael can be just as interesting, if not even mor...

On the 27 May 1869 Alexander Carmichael visited, possibly for the first time, a woman with a remarkable store of the tradition of her native...

The impact of the Battle of Culloden, the last major battle to have been fought on British soil in 1746, will be forever imprinted upon the ...