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Hebridean Journey VI



ISLAY McLEOD
 visits Eriskay, where they still celebrate Bonnie Prince Charlie... and all that booze

Rebels and whisky


The causeway from South Uist to Eriskay, opened September 2002

 

 

 


Bonnie Prince Charlie's Bay - where he landed from France in 1745

 

 


Musician Davie on the steps of Eriskay's only pub, Am Politician. A boat called the SS Politician ran aground off the north-east coast of the island in 1941, inspiring Compton Mackenzie's novel Whisky Galore

 

 

 

All photographs Copyright Institute of Contemporary Scotland, 2009

 

 

 

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13.08.09
Issue no 125

OBSTRUCTION
OF JUSTICE?
Kenneth Roy
addresses the deeper question beyond Megrahi's innocence
or guilt
[click here]

A CREATIVE
SCOTLAND?
I. Michael Russell, culture minister, responds to Kenneth Roy's analysis of public appointments
[click here]
II. Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt argues that a discredited
concept is driving change
[click here]
III. Dick Mungin
says we're promoting the
wrong sort of culture
[click here]


REBELS
AND WHISKY
Islay McLeod, in the latest instalment of her Hebridean journey, reaches Eriskay
[click here]

A RUNNING SORE
Alan Fisher
on the failure of diplomacy
in Georgia
[click here]