Thursday, 30 June 2011
A Typhus Outbreak in Lismore
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Tirefour/Lismore, Tìr Phuir/Lios Mòr Given that modern medicine has advanced so much in the last decade not to mention the last few hundr...
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Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Alexander Carmichael’s Laureation Address
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Dr Alexander Carmichael, 1909 Sir Ludovic Grant (1862–1936) addressed Carmichael in the following terms when he had his degree conferre...
Monday, 27 June 2011
Alexander Carmichael’s Letter of Acceptance
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Dr Alexander Carmichael, 1909 Through the advocacy of Professor Donald MacKinnon ( 1839–1914 ), the first holder of the Chair of Celtic a...
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
A Stroll in Lochaber
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Inverlochy Castle by Horatio MacCulloch On occasion Alexander Carmichael would note down short diary entries about something that must ha...
Monday, 20 June 2011
John Duncan, R. S. A. on Carmina Gadelica
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Deirdre of the Sorrows In a beautifully produced and lavishly illustrated book, Voices from the Hills / Guthan o na Beanntaibh (1927)...
Friday, 17 June 2011
A Royal Autopsy: Prince Sobieski of Poland
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Tollbooth and Canongate, Edinburgh. Mentioned in a previous blog was John Stuart Sobieski and here is another mention of a Sobieski, an e...
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
How to Cure a Cow: Silver Water
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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...
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