i think that the descendants of these people who now maybe live in tower blocks in glasgow and other large cities have lost something precious that they will never know.These people were happy and any of them who had to emigrate from the island did so heartbroken.I still live in the sperrin mountains in Ireland and the life when i was growing up was similar although not near the sea .We were self sufficient in food and when it came to making our own clothes and repairing our own houses.People look back and say we had nothing but we had everything and nowadays we have everything and we have nothing.I think that means the pressure of modern life, financial stress etc.

@mareemacpherson9454

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Conway oh I couldn’t agree with you more. Thank you for your comments as I feel a stranger in this modern world.

@maaan8494

2 жыл бұрын

They had community and a sense if belonging

The yacht was called the Elspeth. Kissling had it on hire I think. During the war he was interned as an enemy alien. He never returned to Germany but he often revisited Erisgeidh post-war. He settled in Scotland and died in a care-home in Dumfries in the early eighties. The music was added later. Most of it was recorded from the singing of the London Ghaidhlig choir which had a strong contingent of exiled Lewis girls like Kitty Macleod.

Brings back old memories. A lovely film with the sounds of the islands and the music. Best of all - the people!

This is definitely a hard lifestyle, but rich in community. It seems the more comfortable life becomes, the less we need each other in our communities and the more detached we become. Being comfortable but alone can sure be sad at times.

I played in the same pipe band as one Alistair MacDonald from Eriskay. What a grand chap....and a terrific story teller as well!

My great grandmother was from here...Margaret McKaskill

What a fantastic wee film, thanks for posting this.

Love this video and anything about the islands. I had a lovely school friend who came from Erisky.We lived in Penilee and were at St Georges school in the fifties. Catriona was her name.🌹

thank you for uploading this!

@spekkyguy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it.

I'll need to show my wee Grannie this, she was born on Eriskay in 1935. Looking at the size of those lambs there's every chance her Mum was already pregnant.

Thank you a lovely film.

Thank you so much for this posting, very interesting breed of sheep.

May I agree indeed with the previous caller who suggested the people had lost something precious,well said absolultly.

I was fascinated looking at live history

Fascinating.

Mary. Johnston. Washes. The. Fleece. What. A. Noble. Lady....

their likes will not be there again.

I have pet pigs,sheep a goat and alpacas and I love them love and I cuddle them all

A great film, I would love to show it to my groups ( I teach natural dyeing and felt-making using our own Shetland fleece, in Cannich, Strathglass. We don't have the internet where I teach- is there any way I can buy use the film? Thanks Rosie

@murphya3able

7 жыл бұрын

Gaelic songs

I wonder if it was much the same when Charlie landed nearly 200 years earlier?

Might as well be a million miles from London. Alba gu Brath...

Bloody hell 😮

Excellent Historic,

Angus Cumming, you were a handsome man. :o)

Paul Robeson: An Eriskay Love Lilt (1938): kzread.info/dash/bejne/hWWDpNKcg7S-f84.html

Those young lads collecting peat probably ended up enlisting during WW2 :(

@nledaig

9 ай бұрын

Probably in the Merchant Navy but it would be interesting to find out.

Charles Edward Stuart landed here in 1745.

@pearsemckiernan

10 ай бұрын

Wonderful. Sir. To. Hear. A. Dignified. Remark.in.an.age.of.dross

No protective clothing for sheep dipping, open decks on fishing boat.

It seems a much less harsh landscape than that of St.Kilda's and the people seem more like todays people even though they were both filmed in the 1930's. The difference is probably that St.Kilda's is much more isolated with an even windier climate because of it being so far out in the Atlantic. Also, the strict cult religion that the people of St.Kilda's had.

@nledaig

9 ай бұрын

Erisgaidh is not really isolated like Hiort (especially today with its causeway) and it has a very sheltered acairsaid. Hiort didn't have that. The Hiortaich were normal Presbyterians.

Sgoinneil!

Werner is buried in Dumfries

same ass faroese pony close and same life

@BlodOgJern

7 жыл бұрын

Similar people too. Many people here have Norwegian blood, and many of the place names are of Old Norse origin. The Scottish islanders, Faroese people, and Icelanders are almost the same people. Varying degrees of Celtic and North Germanic blood.

@asbjrnpoulsen9205

7 жыл бұрын

yes true and ther was some hardy people on st kilda to buth noth annymore Zack K