Gaelic Hebrides

19/12/2025

In Arrow in the Fire, Rolo's stories from oral tradition span bow and arrow battles in the 1600s to landlords evicting families by setting the thatch on their homes alight in the 1850s. Genealogy, landmarks, clan battles and warlord characters. John Murdo Macdonald
Available at An Taigh Ceilidh Church St Stornoway and online Gaelic Hebrides website..

10/12/2025

Traditional songs from the Isle of Harris now available on CD. The South Harris Waulking group were recorded in 1988 by Lewis Recordings. Sharing an authentic sound, it is what those ladies grew up hearing in their own community in their younger days.
Tweed fulling or luadh was carried out by the young women of a village regardless of which weaver had woven the tweed. The songs of bygone days sung with vigour and the fast disappearing South Harris dialect.

Previously available on cassette and launched this week on CD. Available on our Gaelic Hebrides website and An Taigh Ceilidh Cafe shop in Stornoway.

06/12/2025

We sang along to this entertaining Karaoke DVD at this afternoon's gathering at An Taigh Ceilidh, Church St. Eight Gaelic Karaoke tracks and stunning island views, where has this beautiful product been hiding till now. Just the thing for Christmas and New Year parties.

01/12/2025

The Isle of Scalpay for its size was more prolific as regards Gaelic poetry than any other island of its size. This book and accompanying CD was the result of the research of Morag Macleod in her home community in Scalpay. Morag was a collector on behalf of The School of Scottish Studies -Sgoil Eolais na h-Alba for many years and is an authority on Gaelic poetry and song.

Chan eil eilean eile cho beag ri Scalpaigh às an do dh’èirich uimhir de bhàrdachd. Buinidh a ’chuid mhòr de na dh’fhuirich anns an dualchas don fhicheadamh linn, mòran dhi a tighinn o chianalas le bhith a’ falbh chon an dàrna cogaidh.

Mar sin tha cianalas, moladh air an àite is gaol a’ luib a chèile anns na h-òrain. Bhiodhte ghann cluinntinn aig muir, agus san taighean cèilidh agus aig bainnsean agus ’s math gun do mhair corra òran èibhinn a-measg an t-sluaigh cuideachd.
Tha e ri fhaiginn air an larach lin aig Gaelic Hebrides.

21/11/2025

An Stàball [The Stable] is the first-ever original Gaelic board book and a transatlantic collaboration. Author Anne Ramsay, from the Isle of Lewis, Scotland developed and tested the story with pupils at Sgoil-Àraich Lacasdail. Award-winning illustrator Kate Phillips of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada imbued the farmyard animals and their interactions with personality and drama. Each 2-page spread of this board book has a stable door flap for wee hands to lift. Perfect for ages 0–5 and as a baby gift. Launched Oct 2025 by Bradan Press

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21/11/2025

The Psalm Boat Project commemorates the custom of travelling to church services by boat on the sea lochs of Lewis and Harris and Gaelic psalm singing at the end of the Communion Season as they sailed to home ports. In 2011 the psalm boat community began in Keose on the shores of Loch Erisort in Lochs. The community group have staged re-enactments in boats in 2013 and 2015 and travelled to other communities around sea lochs to gather and share stories, while singing Gaelic psalms in the open air as was once the custom in the lives of islanders.

The 20 page project journal Na h-Eathraichean Psalm Boat Community is in English includes blogs by Magaidh Smith and pictures by Mairi M Martin Photography.

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06/11/2025

Tonkan the singer and accordion player, is well known as an entertainer in Isle of Lewis homes, at mainland concerts and at many social gatherings in ports all over the world. The entertainment continues in Tonkan at 90, with memories of Port Na Giùran and the escapades of his working life. Available at Buth an Rubha, An Taigh Ceilidh, Stornoway and the Gaelic Hebrides website.

30/10/2025

Bloigh Beag le Beannachd, a collection of traditional Gaelic stories, with accompanying CD. This is a production by Clach Press, Isle of Lewis.
The Gaelic stories were collected and edited by the late Murdo “HMI” MacLeod (1929-2013) of Gress, Isle of Lewis and Inverness, whilst travelling around the schools in the Highlands & Islands, as Schools’ Inspector in the 1970-90’s. In his retirement Murdo re-wrote some of the stories from his collection. Clach Press are grateful to Murdo’s family for permission to share Murdo’s storytelling skills in print and on CD for a new audience.

The stories first published in 1979, are now from Oct 2025 available in 4 themed volumes, each with original files now remastered to CD.
Story narration is by Domhnall Ruadh, Iain Urchardan; Anna Nic Na Ceàrdaich and Iain Urchardan. Music is by Raibeart Rankin, Jenny Booth and Dougie Beck.
Bloigh Beag le Beannachd will be a resource for storytellers, native Gaelic speakers delving into their own culture and Gaelic learners to help extend vocabulary and grasp a glimpse of the Gael’s way of relating to their landscape.
The books Beathaichean, Sìthichean, Airgead, Bodaich is Cailleachan including CD are available from on our website
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15/09/2025

There are fishing related interviews in publications on our website. A new blog about the life of the Hebridean herring girls and the new exhibition Red Herring & Following the Fishing by Venture North coming to Museum nan Eilean 2026.

13/09/2025

Piper and singer Rona Lightfoot from Uist shares her bountiful knowledge at Feis workshops. Linn Phipps a regular Feis participant has compiled two CDs with Rona's songs, piping and stories from Rona's life.