{"id":4585,"date":"2020-10-01T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2020-10-01T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:32:46","slug":"storas-beo-domhnall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2020\/10\/01\/storas-beo-domhnall\/","title":{"rendered":"St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2: D\u00f2mhnall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We continue our exploration of the North Uist cluster in St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2 nan G\u00e0idheal<\/a> with Donald MacDonald – “D\u00f2mhnall Caol” – from Baleshare. As we’ll hear, Donald was a well-travelled man in Europe and the Middle East before settling back home to full-time crofting. Talking to Archie Campbell in measured tones, Donald takes his time to give a detailed account of his adventures.<\/p>\n

Here, in the first part, Donald recalls his schooling and first job. Going to primary school in Baleshare he found he made faster progress with a Gaelic-speaking teacher. Illness interrupted his education at Bayhead, before he spent 5 years in Inverness, where he encountered some hostility as a \u201cteuchter\u201d, and experienced a distancing from his family. A happier memory was of salmon poaching in Lewis on his way home, where he started work in a bank before being transferred to Glasgow.<\/p>\n

A wordlinked transcript is available here: http:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/8249<\/p>\n