Astrocaryum ©Carsten Flieger The sea occasionally tossed up materials that were incorporated in the Hebridean way of life. Sea...

   Baptismal Font  One of the larger items in Carmichael's collection is this baptismal font, on display at the National Museum ...

St Moluag's Cathedral, Lismore (Copyright RCAHMS) Moluag (530-592) was an Irish missionary, educated and trained in Bangor, who ca...

The 6th Nordic-Celtic-Baltic Folklore Symposium took place this year at the University of Tartu, Estonia and the theme was Supernatural Plac...

The mysterious drowning of a seaman as skilful and well-known as Roderick MacPhee clearly gave rise to a whole host of rumours and specula...

Last year we wrote a blog about Catherine Pearson or MacPherson (c. 1813–80) who had been prevailed upon by Alexander Carmichael in 1870 ...

Mary Beith, author of Healing Threads; Traditional Medicines of the Highlands and Islands, sadly passed away last week. Her book is a compre...