#innse gall

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Eilidh Carr on Twitter:

Today's beach walk at Clachan Sands  The blue and turquoise colours of the sea were so vivid & bright and always changing in the sunlight.

The white sand is made up from broken shells.

[oledavyjones]

Alexander “Sandy” MacLeod and his son Angus

Have a look at : http://glennmci.brinkster.net/mng/mng.html

STORNOWAY GAZETTE March 1954

Grand Old Lewis Seaman Passes ALEX. MACLEOD OF THE MUIRNEAG

Alexander MacLeod of 5 Knock, who died last week at the age of 87, was an outstanding figure in the life of Lewis. As a seaman his name has become almost legendary ----- Seldom has a man been "married" to a boat as Alexander MacLeod was with the Muirneag - the last sailing drifter in the Scottish herring fleet. He skippered the boat for the exceptionally long period of 42 years so that he became known locally & to hundreds of visiting fisherman as "the Muirneag". ----- In the summer of 1912, when they were making sail in the morning to return to port, the skipper's son Alistair fell overboard. Another son Callum dived after him. The skipper with lifebuoy & heaving line, dived after them both, & all three were safely hauled on board. He followed the fishing with the Muirneag up to the beginning of the last war. One day in May 1936, the Muirneag had top shot for a fleet of ninety boats, although then she was then one of two remaining sailing boats in Stornoway. The other was the Paradigm. -----

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The Scottish Hebrides - known as Innse Gall in Gaelic and Suðreyjar in Old Norse - are divided into the Inner Hebrides (roughly 40 islands, including Staffa, Colonsay, and Islay above) and the Outer Hebrides (15 islands, including the Bernera Islands and the St. Kilda archipelago above), and lie off the west coast of Scotland.  Long inhabited (probably 9,000 years or so, if not longer), the islands have borne the brunt of invasion by the Celts, the Norsemen (as part of the Kingdom of the Isles), the English, etc.  Of course, the Hebrides are firmly in Scotland, and as such officially use the Royal Mail for their postal needs, but many have printed their own local and/or tourist stamps.

Stamp details: Top left: Issued on: August 1, 1972 From: Staffa, Scotland Colnect #1972-09

Top middle: Issued on: May 21, 2018 From: Isle of Colonsay, Scotland Colnect #2018-06

Top right: Issued on: February 6, 2018 From: Isle of Islay, Scotland Colnect #2018-07

Bottom left: Issued in: 1979 From: Bernera Islands, Scotland Colnect #1979-03

Bottom right: Issued on: December 10, 1969 From: St. Kilda, Scotland Colnect #1969-03

Recognized as a sovereign state by the UN: No Claimed by: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Member of the Universal Postal Union: No

[scotianostra]

Seilebost, Isle of Harris.

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Summer solstice North Uist taken at 10.33pm

[maps-of-my-interest]

Made this map this evening! Innse Gall/the Western Isles (my homeland) is one of the most religious communities in Scotland with 89% of the population being religious. 32.4% are affiliated with the [Presbyterian] Church of Scotland, 15.9% with the Catholic Church and 5.5% being affiliated with other Christian groups, predominantly the more orthodox Calvinist Free Church.

This map shows the % of each religious dominion in each inhabited island within the archipelago.

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Caution - otters crossing by aclc1

[selchieproductions]

Tha na h-Innse Gall gu math breagha. Tha mi gan iondrainn, bu toigh leam a dhol air ais an aithghearr.