{"id":4331,"date":"2019-11-07T13:48:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T13:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T13:48:55","slug":"storas-beo-hughena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2019\/11\/07\/storas-beo-hughena\/","title":{"rendered":"St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2: Hughena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hughenastill2-2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hughenastill2-2.jpg 1224w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hughenastill2-2-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hughenastill2-2-1024x591.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hughenastill2-2-768x444.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Hughena MacDonald is the next interviewee in this series of conversations with Archie Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>In Part 1, Hughena talks about her family background and her happy memories of growing up and going to various schools in Uist and Benbecula, including her experience of coming across computers for the first time when Sgoil L\u00econacleit opened.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by a spell in Stornoway where she studied at the college and did part-time work, including with Radio nan G\u00e0idheal. On returning to Uist she worked in various places, and raised a family. She describes how she enjoys working with people, and how she likes to relax afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hughena NicDh\u00f2mhnaill (1): St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2 nan G\u00e0idheal\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZGq8t29yNAw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can read the wordlinked transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/7915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> on Clilstore: <a href=\"http:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/7915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/7915<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Part 2, discussion of the importance of Hughena\u2019s faith to her leads onto broader reminiscence over customs and traditions in the days of her childhood, when casual visits to and from neighbours would be more frequent, often related to crofting matters. Hughena describes early memories of collecting and eating shellfish from the shore, and of baking skills less often put to use these days now that so much is so easily available in the shops. The conversation finishes with some discussion of the strength of Gaelic use in her family, how she\u2019s passed it on successfully to her children, and the value of now encouraging older community members to share their spoken skills, while acknowledging the challenges involved in recording them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hughena NicDh\u00f2mhnaill (2): St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2 nan G\u00e0idheal\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgENcQMS3Rc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Clilstore transcript is available <a href=\"http:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/7916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/7916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/7916<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hughena MacDonald is the next interviewee in this series of conversations with Archie Campbell. In Part 1, Hughena talks about her family background and her happy memories of growing up and going to various schools in Uist and Benbecula, including her experience of coming across computers for the first time when Sgoil L\u00econacleit opened. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2019\/11\/07\/storas-beo-hughena\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2: Hughena<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call","category-community","category-research","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}