Comann Eachdraidh Ionadail Phortrigh

 

Portree
Local
History Society

Chair: Morna MacLaren
Vice Chair: Bruce McGhie
Secretary: Nanette Muir
Treasurer: Tim Moore

Our New Season
2009 - 2010

Programme of Meetings: 2009 - 2010

Talks for the winter programme will as always, be on the second Tuesday of each month at Tigh Na Sgire at 19.30 hrs except for January’s meeting which will be held at the Elgin Hostel, and are as follows:
  • October 13, 2009
    Their Past, Your Future.
    Mary Carmichael
  • November 10, 2009
    Our Landscape and its Music
    John Purser
  • December 8, 2009
    A Trip round Trotternish.
    (postponed)
    I.G. MacDonald
  • January 12, 2010
    Visit to New Archive Centre Elgin Hostel Portree.
    Anne Macleod
  • February 9, 2010
    A Walk on the Wild Side:from the Butt of Lewis to Barra Head.
    (Switched to December)
    Cailean Maclean
  • March 9, 2010
    Where is the Bar? A Kensaleyre History (Scotland’s Rural Past Project ).
    John Wilson
  • April 13, 2010
    AGM followed by Lyndale House History from 1900.
    Marcus Ridsdall Smith
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Our Previous Season
2008 - 2009

Programme of Meetings: 2008 - 2009

  • October 14, 2008
    High Pasture Cave and developments at Fiskavaig
    Stephen Birch

  • November 11, 2008
    MacLean family of Raasay.
    Iona MacDonald
  • December 9, 2008
    Dunvegan Castle
    - The Castle, The Clan, The Homecoming
  • January 13, 2009
    All Creatures Great and Small- 50 Years as a Vet on Skye.
    D.J. Maclennan
  • February 10, 2009
    UHI History Department.
    Dr Jim Hunter
  • March 10, 2009
    St Maolrubha & St Columba.
    Norman Newton
  • April 14, 2009
    Col. Jock Collection and Museum of Isles Collection.
    Maggie MacDonald
 		 The Harbour

Next meeting


note change to published programme

Where is the Bar?
A Kensaleyre History

John Wilson

February 9, 2010
7.30 p.m.
at Tigh na Sgire

Portree Local History Society exists to promote the study of and an interest in the History of Portree, its local area and surroundings, and the Isle of Skye in general.

Is e prìomh amas a'chomainn ùidh dhaoine a dhùsgadh chan e a-mhàin ann an eachdràidh baile Phortrigh ach ann an eachdraidh an Eilein air fad. Tha sinn deònach daoine a bhrosnachadh gu bhith rannsachadh agus a'clàradh eachdraidh ar coimhearsnachdan.

We have a programme of meetings held through the Autumn, Winter and Spring months, and, in addition, organise outings and visits of historical interest during the Summer.

Tha an Comann a'coinneachadh a h-iule mìos ann a Taigh na Sgìre ann am Portrigh. Tha na coinneamhan air an cumail ann am Beurla ach b'fhìor thoigh leinn luchd na Gàidhlig a bhith an sàs san obair cuideachd.

The Society's web site
This venture is intended to introduce the Society and, through it, the History of the area, to a wider audience.


We gratefully acknowledge the help given by Dualchas in the preparation of this site, particularly with the photographs used which are, in general, that organisation's copyright.

We have included a page for visitors to add questions and comments, which we would encourage everybody to use, but we are not able to deal with specific questions of Genealogy and Family History.

The Crofters and the War

A project about memories of Skye & Lochalsh in the Second World War

  • Do you know anyone with memories of the area in WW2?
  • Would they be willing to be interviewed and recorded?
  • Do you know of any objects, papers, letters or leaflets from the War?

Children will interview people with memories of the war A website, book and exhibition will be made with what is collected

Your local school is working on this project – can you help them?

The themes of the project are:

  • Croft work
  • Crops and animals
  • Children
  • The War comes to the Crofters
  • The Sea
  • Travel and Transport
  • The Home guard
  • The War effort
  • Food and rationing
  • Songs and entertainment
  • Loss and leaving

For more information contact your local school, or the Project Coordinator
Mary Carmichael, Tel: 01470532271, carmichaelandme@googlemail.com

Project delivered by The Museum of the Isles, Armadale, supported by the Eilean Ban Trust and Highland Council Archive Service

Comann Leabhraichean nan Eilean

The Islands Book Trust



Based in Lewis, the Trust (http://www.theislandsbooktrust.com/) aims to further understanding of the history of Scottish islands in their wider Celtic and Nordic contexts through:

  • events including talks, visits, and conferences
  • publications
  • research and education
The Trust has a full programme of events planned to achieve these objectives.

In 2009, the programme included three activities specifically connected with Portree and Skye. We are sure members and supporters of Portree Local History Society will be interested in these:

  • On Friday 13 March, Dods Macfarlane, the leader of the Ness ‘guga-hunters’, who visits Sulasgeir off the north coast of Lewis every year to harvest the young gannets, will give an illustrated talk at the Aros Centre, Portree, on this remarkable tradition.

  • On Saturday 30 May, there will be a boat trip (weather permitting) to South Rona from Staffin, following a talk in Staffin on the history of the island and its historic links with Skye. This event is in conjunction with Urras an Taobh Sear (Staffin Community Trust).

  • On Saturday 22 August, there will be an excursion on foot from Duntulm to the former settlement of Erisco and Rubha Hunish with Ann Martin and Sìne Gillespie who will talk about the history of the area. This event will be held mainly in Gaelic and, like the Rona visit, has been arranged in conjunction with Urras an Taobh Sear (Staffin Community Trust).

 

Previous Meetings: 2006 - 2007

October 10 - Bill Cowie - Kirk Cave, Rona
November 14 - Alister Ross – Education – PHS100
December 12 - Norman Newton - Skye and Raasay
(in association with Aberdeen University Centre for Lifelong Learning )
January 9 - Pat Myhill - Telford’s Stein
February 13 - Fiona MacKenzie – Màiri Mhòr nan Òrain -
A song-lecture
March 13 - Ian McCrorie - The MacBrayne Story
April 10 - AGM, with guest speaker - Roger Hutchinson - “Calum’s Road”

Previous Meetings: 2007 - 2008

October 9 - Ian Suddaby - The Excavation at Home Farm
November 13 - Dr Jeff Stone - St Kilda: Two Decades of Digging and Scraping
(in association with Aberdeen University Centre for Lifelong Learning )
December 11 - Dr Martin MacGregor - The Lordship of the Isles
January 8 - Seonachan MacLeod - Deserted Villages of Skye
February 12 - Professor Brian Sykes - Vikings in the Blood?
March 11 - Murray MacDonald - Mobile Banking by Land and Sea in the Highlands and Islands
April 8 - AGM, with guest speaker - Ronnie Armstrong - Para Handy and the Clyde Puffers

All meetings are held at Tigh na Sgire, Portree,
but note change of venue, December 2008
at 7. 30 p.m.,
on the second Tuesday of each month.


Contact us:

We cannot offer direct help with questions about Family History,


but this (commercial) site may help.

 
On other pages:
 
Published by Stephen Clarke, on behalf of Portree Local History Society - © September 2008.
Photographs, unless otherwise stated © Dualchas 2006
The publisher and the Society publish this information in good faith, but cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions.
Meeting dates and topics are subject to change.