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Discover more about Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches in the blogs published here, which cover a wide range of fascinating subjects from the website. We also publish information about our events, projects and resources in this section. Blogs are added on a regular basis so please re-visit this section to view the latest ones and keep up to date with what we’re doing.

30.04.20

In praise of B roads

In this strange hibernation, with quiet roads and journeys n foot, what one friend has called the ‘intimacies of the home-patch’* have become their own study. I’ve been taking the B roads from my door by bike or on foot and exploring online archives related to my home for some time and I’d like to write here in praise of both.

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30.04.20

In Search of Dugald Buchanan

It must be a particularly hard time just now for people of faith. Churches, mosques, synagogues and temples are closed. The places where one would most clearly feel the presence of spiritual community are cut off – never mind that a pandemic might tempt one to question faith in any deity.

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05.03.20

New Gaelic Song CD for Children

Tobar an Dualchais has launched a CD of Gaelic songs and rhymes suitable for young children.

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27.02.20

‘There’s gold on those rocks’

Seaweed in abundance was a ‘golden fringe’ to island life and for centuries provided food, fodder and fertilizer. As with land plants, there are many species of different shapes and sizes and they vary between localities with about 600 species round the coasts of the British Isles.

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01.02.20

Cainnt nan Eun: Language of the Birds

Our fascinating feathered friends and their songs have inspired art, music, myth and folklore the world over – a truth reflected locally in the many recordings to be found on Tobar an Dualchais / Kist O Riches.

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02.01.20

Oidhche Challainn: No Admission Without A Rhyme

It is a pitch-black night in a west coast village 150 years ago, the night of the 12 January: New Year according to the Julian calendar still followed by older people in the community.

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