The MacDougall/McCallum Heritage Foundation in the USA has been a generous and continuing support to the Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mor for many years. It started with Margaret MacDougall Carasik who first came to Oban from Minnesota for the MacDougall gathering in 2004...
Jennifer Baker friend and Chair of the Comman Eachdraidh Lios Mòr wrote: Margaret MacDonald, one of the founder members of Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mòr died on Tuesday 5th January 2021 aged 91. As well as the great memories that we all have of her, she has left a...
This event was funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council with the Lismore Gaelic Heritage Centre and explored many aspects of Rev. Donald McNicol (1735-1802), a one-time minister of Lismore. Topics included his extensive Gaelic literary...
The story of a Lismore Crofter and Entrepreneur The 19th Century was a hard time for most of the ordinary folk of Lismore, with evictions, emigration, crop failures, famine and widespread poverty. A few individuals did prosper, notably John McIntyre, but his wider...
A distinguished son of Lismore In the 18th Century, Lismore seems to have been particularly adept at producing individuals of great talent and productivity whose reputations have faded into obscurity. In 2019, we focussed on Dugald Carmichael, a distinguished...
Dugald Carmichael (Naturalist and Explorer 1772-1827) Lismore-born Carmichael was one of the leading British naturalists and explorers in the decades around 1800, collecting in South Africa, Mauritius and Tristan da Cunha, before returning to work on the British...
Mary Cameron MacGregor was the wife of Reverend Gregor MacGregor, the parish minister on the Isle of Lismore for nearly 50 years. Her diary, for a single year (1868), passed from her son to a grandson in the USA, and returned to Lismore by a combination of unlikely...
The Connell boat building family in Lismore, were they members of the Clann Mhic Gille Chonaill ? D.C. McWhannell (24/04/14)1.0 Introduction: The well known and fondly remembered Lismore resident Donald Black, a founder member of Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mór, stated...
Editor’s note: This is an extract from an exceptionally full and authoritative article on the Clann Mhic Gille Chonaill by Donald C McWhannell, who is an acknowledged authority on the history of boat building in Argyll. The full text follows below. Introduction The...
Donald Black (1928– October 2013). The following is Dr Iain MacNicol's tribute delivered at Donald Black's funeral service in Lismore church. Donald Black was my friend. Donald black was a friend of everyone in this church today and everyone on this island and many...
Alexander Carmichael, folklorist, antiquarian, and author, was born on 1 December 1832 in Taylochan, Lismore, ninth and youngest child of Hugh Carmichael (1783-1862), farmer and publican, and Elizabeth (Betty) MacColl (1791-1863). After attending schools on the island...
2009 marked the centenary of the death of Hugh (Eoghan) Anderson, a Lismore-born bard, whose Gaelic songs are highly rated, but some details of his life remain a mystery.The certificate of Anderson’s death on 22 August 1909 in Stevenston, Ayrshire, states his age as...