Mòrag Anna NicNèill
@mogibarra
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Writer • translator • retired teacher • the odd poem • Gàidhlig native speaker, from Horgabost, Harris. Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award 2015.
Isle of Barra
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Seòras Ruadh & Barabal: New Writers Award 2015
Granaidh Afraga: Best Book for Teenagers, Mòd 2017
An Tiortach Beag: Best Fiction Book, Gaelic Literature Awards 2020
Artair sa Chaisteal: Chrisella Ross Memorial Prize;
3rd Donald Meek Awards 2019; Best Children's Book, Mòd 2022 🙂
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Beach looked a bit busy so I went up the croft instead.
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My father has just told me to make sure I switch everything off before I go to bed. I am nearly 56.
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One of our cows, enjoying the evening sunshine in Barra last night. 🙂
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Stornoway airport.
Name a place with tighter security than the Capitol. RIGHT answers only. 😂👇🏽
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Watching snow showers from my bedroom window.
Chan eil i ach fuar, frasach an-diugh.
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Old ruins, high on the hillside on our croft. The people who lived here were removed during the Clearances and sent to the east side of Harris. My grandfather used this one as a byre when the area was resettled in the 1930s. I often wonder about the poor folk who once lived here.
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Visiting my parents just now. My father has only told me about twenty times to switch everything off before I go to bed. I'm 55... 🙄
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My husband rescued this tiny wee toot last Sunday. Abandoned by her mother, covered in oil, coughing, sneezing, sore eye, weighing only 350g...
Cleaned up, checked by vet, fed properly, cosy blankets... she's the cutest thing you ever did see! 💗
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A wee video of the beach, for those of you who like my photos. 😎
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How it started, and how it's going...
It's taken just over a decade, but we have managed to make things grow on this bare, windy hillside. 🙂
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#IsMiseG
àidhlig I taught Gaelic for 26 years. I see many former pupils enjoy great success in Gaelic-related careers. I live in a Gaelic-speaking community and go days and weeks without speaking anything else. I write books in Gaelic. To me, it is like the air that I breathe.
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Beautiful evening, and the corncrake is back!
Fuaim an t-samhraidh. ❤️
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My father-in-law, with his father, in their fishing boat in the 1930s. Islanders have been fishing Hebridean waters for generations, and know how to look after the marine environment.
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Just after 4 a.m. and the sky is breathtakingly beautiful.
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33 years ago today, I crossed Caolas Bharraigh and set foot on Barra for the very first time.
Mar chlach a' ruith le gleann...
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My father-in-law is 93. Chatting to him on Christmas day, asking him what his first job was...
Planting marram grass at Tràigh Eais, to halt erosion. Always assumed this to be a recent concern, but this was 1940s, when he was 14, and had just left school. (And funded by Dept.)
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The message is not working, I'm afraid. Something needs to be done - and urgently. Complete ban on non-essential travel is the only solution. Ferry busy tonight and last night. Campervans and tourists here. Not good.
Castlebay village hall in Barra and medics have prepared for
#coronavirus
- this is not far from 3rd world basic. No ventilators, no much oxygen either, no testing. Islands such as this could be badly hit. Message is don't come on holiday please RT.
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My sister is the
@HighlandCouncil
Gaelic translator!
She provided the correct Gaelic for this in 2019, having consulted
@ainmeanaite
as per Council policy. The developer subsequently sourced their own translations. They were informed and this is now a planning enforcement matter.
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I am named after my maternal grandmother. She is pictured here with her mother, Anna, and her grandmother, Dolina. Doileag Ruadh, as my great-great-grandmother was better known, was a MacPhail from Shawbost in Lewis.
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Beanntan a' Chinn a Tuath à Horgabost. ❤️
The most beautiful mountains in the world. A thread.
1. Machhapuchchhre aka Mt Fishtail,
Elevation: 6,993 masl,
Location: Nepal,
Coordinates: 28°29′42″N, 83°56′57″E,
First Ascent: No.
Photo ©: Ivan Kozorezov.
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Sealladh eile dhen tràigh bhig, shìos fon taigh againn.
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Every Hearach baby born in Stornoway, upon the news that this technically makes them a Leòdhasach... 😄
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The view from up behind our house.
Deagh latha eile ann am Barraigh. 🙂
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My father-in-law and family.
Eoligarry, Isle of Barra, in the 1930s.
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@paulmclem
@EilidhCarr
Beautiful Berneray! My windows are a bit grubby, but here's what I'm seeing today:
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Beagan nas blàithe an-diugh.
A wee bit warmer today. 😎
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Cho soilleir a-muigh.
So light outside, at half eleven.
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Noticed quite a few people asking what these things are, and people erroneously telling them that they are goose barnacles. I think they are baby campervans, about to hatch.
Seo a-nis.
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Nothing for it on a winter's day in Horgabost but a cup of tea by the fire and a good book!
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A special day in Horgabost yesterday, celebrating my mother and father's Diamond Wedding anniversary.
Mealaibh ur naidheachd! 🥰
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Scarista Church, 21 years ago today. In the blink of an eye!
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Canaigh is Rùm, bho leac an dorais, an-dràsta.
Current view from my doorstep, looking towards Canna and Rum. 🙂
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First paragraph of a Guardian article about a recent music event in Harris... 🙄
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The corncrake has returned to the field below our house! Heard it at the other end of the village last week, and now crex-crexing away beside us. 🙂
Fuaim an t-samhraidh ❤️
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Chan ann tric a bhios sneachda againn ann am Barraigh!
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30 years ago today, I crossed Caolas Bharraigh and set foot on Barra for the first time. It's hard to believe that I have been here for three decades.
Mar chlach a' ruith le gleann...
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The mighty Sròn Scourst, from Horgabost and at closer quarters.
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Delighted to have won the award for Best Children's Book at this year's
@NationalMod
. 🙂
Mo thaing mhòr dhan Chomunn Ghàidhealach airson na duaise. Cho moiteil! Agus mealaibh ur naidheachd,
@GMacaChubair
.
Mealaibh ur naidheachd,
@GMacaChubair
agus
@mogibarra
, air na duaisean agaibh.
Congratulations to Graham Cooper and Morag Ann MacNeil, winners of the
@NationalMod
prizes for best adult and best children’s books.
@LuathPress
@AcairBooks
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Got to love Lovats shop in South Uist - they have everything! I just bought a bucket of salt mackerel and a bottle of champagne! 🙂
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Leverburgh ferry still not fixed.
To get back to Barra today, we had to leave Harris last night and travel to Stornoway, get the freight ferry to Ullapool, drive to Inverness (arriving at 1.30am) and then head for Oban at 6 this morning to catch the 10.30am ferry to Castlebay.
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Some shots of my father's garden - not bad for someone who is nearly 92! So happy to be home. 🥰
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Timbuktu, an tuirt thu?! Dùil a'm gun robh mi sa Ghearasdan...
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My dad is nearly 90, and I doubt there is anyone alive who knows more about the history and culture of Harris. This is well worth a listen - if not to hear him recite 'Caisteal Allt an t-Siùcair'. I wish I had a fraction of his good memory.
#G
àidhligMhathHearach
#TraditionBearer
My father is on the radio at 12 o' clock, talking about Bàrd Phabaigh. An old programme, recorded by Katie Ann MacKenzie:
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According to this, Barra is "very remote and if you miss it, the next landmass you hit is Newfoundland." Think you might just stumble across Eriskay first...
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Ùisdein, we have a problem...
Deuchainn rocaid ann an Uibhist an-diugh mar phàirt den phlana ionad coimearsalta fhosgladh an sin an ath bhliadhna.
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Maisie, halfway up the door, regretting her extreme naughtiness and banishment to the scullery...
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