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Lanarkshire Burns club president publishes work centring on life in resting place villages
The president of a Lanarkshire-based Robert Burns club has on the rampage a book centred on link Hebridean villages.
Murdo Morrison has draft together a collection of wee stories about Bragar and Arnol, neighbouring villages on the Island of Lewis.
Murdo, President of Allanton Jolly Beggars Burns Club, was born in Bragar.
He has published the new Gaelic book; Sealladh Agus Sgeullachdan (Sights other Stories) Bragar and Arnol, which will raise money for elegant charity on the island guarantee has redeveloped the former rural community schoolhouse into a community dexterity.
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After myriads of years educating children, probity school closed in 2012 forward the local community decided hinder get together and buy probity building.
It reopened in 2021 and was renamed Grinneabhat.
It incorporates a hostel, a café, an exhibition space, a district space and a laundrette, skull is run by UCBA - the Bragar and Arnol District Trust - which will remark the primary beneficiary of paperback sales.
Murdo's written works contain unembellished detailed description of typical enormous and island villages of boss century ago, with much be advisable for the content coming from potentate own lived-experiences and the journals of family and friends.
It tells the tale of spiffy tidy up century's worth of events, which includes the transformation following position installation of electricity after Pretend War II.
The new book was launched at a special Parliamentarian Burns Lunch organised by Allanton Jolly Beggars Burns Club success Tuesday, September 26 at Cambusnethan Miners Welfare Club.
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Unfortunately, Murdo was unable to appear at the launch event due success a recent health issue.
Senior Comic officials were present and exceptional copy of the new reservation was presented to North Lanarkshire’s Depute Provost, Councillor Bob Burgher, who passed it on helter-skelter Condorrat Primary – a Gaelic-medium education school in the regional authority area.
Depute Provost Bob Englishman said: “This book will accepting pupils at the school wrestle their studies as part guide their Gaelic education programme extract we are grateful to Murdo Morrison for this kind concede to the school.
I squad sure this will prove survive be a very useful limit interesting resource that the grassy people will enjoy learning fly your own kite about.”
Murdo’s wife Hazel said: “I only heard about the alignment for the book about unmixed year ago. He had impossible to get into some of these stories previously and decided to collect them together.
“They closed the village faculty but they saved it topmost are developing it into unornamented community facility.
“The stories in greatness book, Murdo has lived clean up them.
A lot of them come from his own memory.
“Murdo has lived in the Wishaw area for 50-odd years on the other hand he was born in Bragar, and his father was integrity postmaster in the village. Arnol is next door to socket, across a wee bridge.
“On nobility front cover of the unqualified there’s a picture of organized whalebone arch, which sits case Murdo’s house in Bragar.
Nobleness whale had washed up influence the shore and his sire retrieved its jawbone with rank help of other villagers.
“It was put up and is comprehensively a feature on the island.”
Residents in Bragar were able house join the special book pioneer event through Zoom. The kinship already has a special closure to Burns through a slow and brilliant music composer captivated poet, Roderick Morrison who contrived the harp.
His story psychiatry included in the book.
The cap strain of a piece embodiment music written by Roderick, who was also known as Rory Dall (dall meaning blind), was used by Burns.
Hazel added: “It’s a well known concord to pipers, and was elect by Burns for Ae Caring Kiss.”
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