A name to be reckoned with which has cropped up in this blog on more than once occasion is Nether Lochaber, the pen-name of the Rev. Alexand...

The blog ‘ a’ spaidsearachd agus a’ meòrachadh’ , by ‘Direcleit’, is a constantly expanding treasure-house of information about the people o...

It should come as no surprise that Alexander Carmichael may be best described as an inverterate and constant tinkerer – he was fastidious an...

A rather unusual contemporary example collected by Alexander Carmichael from the very person to whom it happened – John MacMillan ( fl . 186...

Among Alexander Carmichael’s fieldwork notebooks are a few mentions of the Duke of Tarentum. This was none other than Marshal MacDonald (176...

An entry made by Alexander Carmichael concerns the funeral ‘celebration’ of Cailean Ruadh MacKenzie (1596/7–1633), the 1st Earl of Seaforth....

Fifty years ago Calum Iain Maclean passed away on his adopted isle of South Uist. Over a decade of amassing oral traditions of every type an...