... , and various memorials to the event are dotted around Ireland and the Hebrides where bodies were eventually washed ashore. The latest memorial built was in 2005 to mark the 65th anniversary, on the island of Colonsay in Scotland. To see details of the Welsh-Italian fund raising event, see here, while on the Arandora site you can see the list of Italians and others, who died. Source | ItalyMag

... Kennacraig to Ullapool." The six Gaelic rings or Gaelic journeys can be found on the Gaelic journeys page. On this page you will also find the Islay Gaelic Ring "Kennacraig to Islay, Colonsay and Oban", written by Islay's own Iseabail and Margaret Mactaggart. I can highly recommend to read their story, it's beautifully written and gives the best account I have read so far ...

... has been detailed before. The surveys, in both winter and summer, involve two visits to each tetrad selected and the requisite records being collected. Whilst we're doing reasonably well on Islay, Jura and Colonsay, my discovery that a Regional Representative elsewhere in the UK had 320 people on his list of Atlas contacts came as a bit of a shock! I admit the fact that we're struggling ...