Pàdruig Morrison, PhD scholar, crofter, musician, and community activist from Grimsay, talks to Gordon Wells for the Stòras Beò nan Gàidheal project. We’ve added a Gaelic subtitle option on Y…

On Island Voices’ 21st birthday(!), this is the final blogpost from the project before the longstanding academic linkage with UHI is brought to a close, with the retirement of its co-ordinator. Fol…

The Island Voices project offers a model of community-based action in the maintenance of linguistic diversity and heritage in a world in which minoritised languages are under unprecedented threat. …

Independent Gaelic consultant Kirsty Macdonald, from Claddach Illeray in North Uist, talks to Gordon Wells. Patronymics (and a DNA test) reveal a long Gaelic-speaking lineage on her father’s side, …

Tongan is the latest addition to our Other Tongues initiative, with our documentary about catching razorfish in South Uist now realised in yet another island language – this time from the Sou…

As we enter August, our various 21st anniversary summer exhibitions are still running in the Hebrides and in Glasgow – though not in all cases for much longer. So if you want to see them on-s…

The Scottish Poetry Rose Garden in Glasgow’s Queen’s Park is the venue for the open-air Island Voices exhibition, opening on the 12th July, of the Five Writers featured in its Extension…

With summer upon us, venues across Uist and Benbecula are now showcasing the 2005-2026 compilation video that brings together into one 7-minute clip representative highlights of the 20+ years of th…

The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) is supporting a series of summer exhibitions showcasing the Island Voices project, with visitors invited to share their own memories, reflections a…

Gaelic recordings on the Island Voices YouTube channel provide the empirical data to inform the Leacan 2 corpus planning project on how the language is spoken in real life. The project is led by Gl…

Island Voices’ association with Uist Arts Association dates back to Art on the Map in 2007, when we ran our first ever series on a loop at Nunton Steadings. Fast forward to 2026 and we’…

Krótki film dokumentalny w języku polskim dla uczących się języka o kopaniu torfu w Uist. Film aithriseach goirid ann am Pòlainnis airson luchd-ionnsachaidh mu dheidhinn buain na monadh ann an Uibh…

Who remembers Island Voices’ first ever films from the Craigard Centre in Lochmaddy, North Uist? Still among our favourites, short clips from these earliest recordings set the opening scenes …

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“Guth nan Siarach” (or “Voice of the Westsiders”) is the name of a new Gaelic community group in Lewis, set up in response to the 2020 publication of the Soillse research book, “The Gaelic Crisis i…

The Shetland poet Christie Williamson has brought the work of the “Five Writers” in our Extensions initiative to full completion by composing and narrating Shaetlan versions of the four…

Brian Ó Curnáin writes about Tomás: Tá sé 98 (beidh sé 99 i mbliana le cúnamh Dé ; rugadh 1927 é). As Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe a mhuintir agus bhí muirín mhór acu. Micheál Ó Con Cheannainn a athai…

Our Craigard film was the first we ever made, and we keep returning to it for inspiration! This week’s exciting news, following our posts last Friday and Saturday, is the addition of optional subti…

Island Voices gets “the key to the door” this year, having grown out of the 2-year European POOLS project that started in September 2005. We’ve come a long way since then, with some interesting twi…

With the official coming into force of the Scottish Languages Act on St Andrew’s Day, it may be worth noting that Island Voices has been steadily gathering collections of recordings in Gaelic…

North Uist resident Cathie Laing talks to Island Voices co-ordinator and fellow Aire air Sunnd participant, Gordon Wells. As with other longer conversations we’ve recorded, we’ve divide…

Norman Maclean turns his attention to the Isle of Harris for the next instalment of Sgeulachdan Thormoid. A grand dinner is held in Tarbert for the pensioners of Harris, with libations gu leòr. The…

Nicholas Evans has spent decades trying to decipher the undocumented tongues of Papua New Guinea and Australia. His work has redefined the way we think a...

With a multilingual trip down Memory Lane, Island Voices visits Central England, in a new contribution to the CIALL-supported “Extensions” initiative. This collection comprises a short documentary …

Select any video clip in this landscape format, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022, has become the latest contributor to the Island Voices/Gut…

Select any video clip in this landscape format, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. Writer, poet, and “Edinburgh Gael” Martin MacIntyre (Màrtainn Mac an t-Saoir) is the subject o…

Select any video clip in this landscape format, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. Shetlander Christie Williamson is the focus of this third “poets in exile” collection in our experimental …

Select any video clip in this landscape format, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. Lewis-man Donald S Murray is a Shetland resident. As an established writer, mostly in English, how does he…

Select any video clip named in this landscape poster, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. Island Voices is extending its “language capture and curation” model, with CIALL support, to new con…

Here are two more short previews from the final Enterprise section of Series Two. Norman Maclean talks direct to camera about the launch of his autobiography in English. Agus an seo tha e a’ …

Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo is the third member of the multilingual poetic partnership pulled together by Martin MacIntyre for his “A’ ruith eadar dà dhràgon” collection of poems in four languages, in which…

The CIALL-supported Island Voices presence at NATECLA 2025 has paid immediate dividends, in the form of a new Farsi version of the “Multilingual Memories: Birmingham 1984” film looking back 40 year…

The Island Voices “Capture and Curation” approach is highly productive of new material in new languages to add to the original Hebridean focus on Gaelic and English, and it sometimes takes us to pl…

Audrey West discussing her artistic response to the commission

The sonorous verse of Duncan Ban MacIntyre can now be heard on your phone any time you visit the Scottish Poetry Rose Garden in Glasgow’s Queen’s Park. Friends of Queen’s Park inv…

Cur síos ag Seán Ó Con Ceanainn, as an Móinteach, Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe, ar an iománaíocht (na camógaí) agus ar an bpeil; ar bazaar na Faiche Móire an áit a casadh a bhean chéile air aimsir rás…

The Island Voices project is featured in the new book “Foundational approaches to Celtic Linguistics”, through a chapter on the late Norman Maclean by Gordon Wells. This volume is a fir…