Thanks

We would like to thank everyone that has helped and supported the project in different ways in its first year and especially the following people. The project would not have succeded without that support.

Everyone at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig who has supported us, especially Ruairidh Graham, who conducted most of the new interviews and who provided support and valuable opinions on project development; the Library team; Archie MacLean and Marsaili MacLeod; the College’s IT staff; the Marketing Department and a special thanks to Steve MacKenzie for designing the project booklet; Tracy Broadley with support regarding GDPR and permissions.

Everyone who gave up their time to be interviewed by us and the families who have given us permission to use interviews from the archive.

Everyone in the community who gave us photographs, especially, Mary Ivy MacDonald, Norma MacPherson, Graeme MacKenzie, Niall MacDonald, Bill McLellan, Heather Clyne, Alistair MacKay, the Macdonald family (Ferrindonald), the Culbertson family (Ferinndonald), Alasdair Stephen.

Jo MacDonald for help and encouragement regarding song collection. Mairead MacDonald. Nicola Thomson. Ronald Black. Shona Cormack. Raghnaid Sandilands. Iain MacKinnon. Eileen MacDonald.

The late Hector MacKenzie. Hector managed the oral history project in the early 1980s which recorded native Gaelic speakers in south Skye. Some of those recordings appear on this website.

Andreas Wolff who conducted an oral history project in Sleat in the 2000s. Some of those recordings appear on this website.

Pupils and staff at Bun-sgoil Shlèite, especially Kenneth Nicolson and Lorraine MacKinnon. Jasmine Threlfall and Alison McGillivray who helped breathe new life into the the songs and the school choir.

Chris Mitchell at Lumberjack Digital who brought the website to fruition.

Stephen Kellow, Bòrd na Gàidhlig.

Flòraidh Forrest, Cailean Gòrdan at Tobar an Dualchais

Margaret Mary Murray, Màiri MacRitchie and Calum MacKinnon at BBC Alba.

Katherine Mockett for sharing her huge and invaluable historical record collection with us.

Maggie MacDonald, Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart at Sleat Historical Society.

Colleagues at the National LIbrary of Scotland, including: Andrew McDougall, Alice Heywood and Christopher Fleet.

Thank you.