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Why I chose Gaelic Medium Education for my children

I wrote a testimonial a few days ago for gaelicmediumeducation.com, the website which tells people all about the benefits of Gaelic immersive education and gives information on schools offering it in the islands. It came about because I have a work […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Family, Featured, Gaelic, Home Page
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Why I couldn’t bring myself to talk on telly about Trump

It’s been three weeks. I am finally able to speak about it. The fact that Donald Trump — whom we can supposedly claim as one of our own since his mother came from Lewis — won the US Election made me […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Opinion
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Magic and surreal.. how Sharmanka brought a loom back to life

“Mammy! Mammy! Look! A lion!” “Mammy! Mammy! Look! A kangaroo!”… so it went when I took the kids to see the Sharmanka exhibition in An Lanntair. I knew they would love it. How could they not? It’s art in motion, […]

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Trump ‘unfit to be President’ – our view from the homeland

America is about to enter the final week of campaigning in its Presidential Election, with Donald Trump, a man we should supposedly feel some connection to as his mother came from Lewis, very much in the race. Amazingly, despite all […]

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Faclan proves Golden Age of Scots island literature is now

We’re heading into the Celtic festival of Samhain, the beginning of the ‘darker half’ of the year, and in Lewis that means it’s time for Faclan, The Hebridean Book Festival. Taking place in Stornoway every year around the time the […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Arts, Books
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‘No preference’ say National Grid on size of interconnector projects

  National Grid have dismissed claims by Lewis Wind Power and Stornoway Trust that only big renewables projects such as theirs will drive the case for the interconnector linking the mainland to the Hebrides, saying they have “no preference on […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Renewables
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Stornoway Trust and LWP react to crofters’ own wind farm plans

After blogging about the crofters taking on the multinationals over the development rights to wind turbines on Lewis last week, I was invited to a meeting by Lewis Wind Power (EDF and AMEC) in the Stornoway Trust offices to hear […]

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Crofters take on multinationals over wind farm rights on Lewis

In true David and Goliath style, a group of crofters from the Isle of Lewis are taking on the might of the multinationals by using a little known and relatively new piece of crofting law to try to claim back […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Home Page, Opinion, Renewables
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How Hollywood came to the Ballantyne Psalm singing project

They seem like a bit of an odd couple: the award-winning Hollywood composer behind the soundtracks to films such as Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby, and the Lewis tradition bearer who’s also an elder in the Free Church. So […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Gaelic, Home Page, Music
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Asian arts festival in Stornoway celebrates shared humanity

Islanders are travellers. Always have been. Scattering themselves to the furthest corners of the globe, taking their traditions, culture and cianalas with them but always remaining outward looking, open minded and downright adventurous. To my mind, it’s as much a […]

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Posted by KatiePosted in Arts
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