Skye-based poet and translator RODY GORMAN was the inaugural recipient of a HI~Arts Writer’s Award this year, and used it to travel to Canada.

Aros Centre, Portree, 28 November 2003

PETER URPETH interviewed ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL following the publication of his new Gaelic novel, An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sinn

THE PUBLICATION of a major new novel by Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul (Angus Peter Campbell) is an event of note in Highland culture, even if the language gap means that it will remain inaccessible to the majority of its potential readership within the Highlands, far less beyond.

DONNIE MUNRO is best known as a singer, both as a solo artist and as the former lead singer with Runrig.

CHRISTINE PRIMROSE is one of the great voices in traditional Gaelic singing. PETER URPETH looks at Christine’s contribution, and welcomes a new recording with Brian Ó hEadhra

The Mod is the biggest event in the Gaelic music calendar. This year marks the centenary of the event in its birthplace, Oban. Gold medal winner ARTHUR CORMACK gives a flavour of what it was like to compete in Gaeldom’s premiere competition.

Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul (Angus Peter Campbell) describes his epic new Gaelic novel, An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sìnn (‘The Night Before We Sailed’).

Gaelic writer TORCUIL MacRATH is the subject of a profile by Peter Urpeth this month. This essay on the American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau first appeared in the Gaelic literary journel Gairm, and is reprinted with the author’s permission.

TORCUIL MacRATH of Grimshader celebrates his 80th birthday this year. He remains one of Gaeldom’s most original poets and scholars yet his work is little known outside of Lewis and among the readership of the now silent Gaelic literary journal, Gairm. PETER URPETH met the Bard in his Grimshader home on the Isle of Lewis.