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Alison Dix, chair Comunn Eachdraidh Bheàrnaraigh, Peter Kerr, project worker, and Sue Wilson, project manager
Visit the Historical Society collections at The Nurse's Cottage (open daily June- August)
Please email info@bernerayhistorical.com for more information. More info on The Nurse's Cottage here.
Book Launch, Songs by Hector MacKinnon - the Berneray Bard
This well-attended event took place on in April 2013 in the Community Hall. It was jointly organised by Acair, the Gaelic book publisher, and Berneray Historical Society. Copies of the book are available to purchase from The Nurse's Cottage.
Book Launch Event
The Nurse's Cottage hosted a big crowd in December 2012 for the launch of the Historical Society publication The Story of Emigration from Berneray, Harris written by Peter Kerr. The book represented the culmination of the Society's 18-month project, 'A' tilleadh ar n-eachdraidh dhachaigh' (Bringing Our History Home). The project sought to explore the historical and cultural impact of emigrations from Berneray, by establishing who went where, when, how and why? It discovered aspects of Berneray’s Gaelic island culture that the emigrants took with them and which have been maintained in their new lands by their descendants.The project also included a conference held in the Community Hall in August.
Copies of the book are available for £5 + postage. Please contact the secretary of Berneray Historical Society at The Nurse's Cottage, Berneray, Isle of North Uist, HS6 5BD or email info@bernerayhistorical.com
The Gaelic version of the book is available online as a free download.
A' tilleadh ar n-eachdraidh dhachaigh is part-financed by the Scottish Government and the European Community LEADER Innse Gall 2007-2013 programme.
Please email info@bernerayhistorical.com for more information. More info on The Nurse's Cottage here.
Book Launch, Songs by Hector MacKinnon - the Berneray Bard
This well-attended event took place on in April 2013 in the Community Hall. It was jointly organised by Acair, the Gaelic book publisher, and Berneray Historical Society. Copies of the book are available to purchase from The Nurse's Cottage.
Book Launch Event
The Nurse's Cottage hosted a big crowd in December 2012 for the launch of the Historical Society publication The Story of Emigration from Berneray, Harris written by Peter Kerr. The book represented the culmination of the Society's 18-month project, 'A' tilleadh ar n-eachdraidh dhachaigh' (Bringing Our History Home). The project sought to explore the historical and cultural impact of emigrations from Berneray, by establishing who went where, when, how and why? It discovered aspects of Berneray’s Gaelic island culture that the emigrants took with them and which have been maintained in their new lands by their descendants.The project also included a conference held in the Community Hall in August.
Copies of the book are available for £5 + postage. Please contact the secretary of Berneray Historical Society at The Nurse's Cottage, Berneray, Isle of North Uist, HS6 5BD or email info@bernerayhistorical.com
The Gaelic version of the book is available online as a free download.
A' tilleadh ar n-eachdraidh dhachaigh is part-financed by the Scottish Government and the European Community LEADER Innse Gall 2007-2013 programme.