Fowling in the Outer Hebrides - Short Film
Continuity & Change in a Tradition.
About the film
This short film (in English) is based on interviews I did thirty years ago with three men who went to Sùlaisgeir during that time.
The tradition of seabird fowling is centuries old in the North Atlantic, stretching from Norway to Scotland and Ireland, and is still practiced in the Faroe Islands and in the Hebrides of Scotland. These amazing photographs were taken by James MacGeoch. (Copyright the Estate of James MacGeoch.)
A new period of change is upon us, this time ecological change. This is an effort to catch a tradition at a point in time, and how a generation who had been through the war lived it.
Tha sealg eòin-mhara airson biadh no adhbharan eaconamaigeach ri lorg ann an diofar àiteachachan air feadh raoin chultural a’ Chuain Shiair, agus tha bho linn nan creach. Tha cruth na h-obrach diofraichte ann an diofar àiteachan, a rèir cruth na talmhainn. Tha dòighean-obrach cuideachd ag atharrachadh thairis air ùine airson diofar adhbharan – ge bith a bheil iad cultarail, eaconomaigeach no fiù ‘s an dèidh tubaistean. Tha am film seo a’ coimhead air leithid a dh’atharrachadh ann an aon thradisean thairis air beagan bhliadhnaichean às dèidh an Dàrna Chogaidh - Sùlaisgeir ann an Leòdhas.
You can read the article in English here. No leugh e sa Ghàidhlig an seo.