Highland Herald
Highland Herald
Reporting the News from the North
Author(s):
David RossHarry Reid
Publication Date: 18 December, 2018
Available in all formats
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 9781788850872
ISBN: 9781788850872
Price: INR 620.99
Description
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From 1988 to 2017 David Ross was the Highland Correspondent of The Herald. His patch stretched from the Mull of Kintyre in the south to the Shetland island of Unst in the north; and from St Kilda, in the West, to the whisky country of Speyside in the east. From his home on the Black Isle he covered all the big stories, from the fight against a nuclear waste dump in Caithness to plans to remove half a mountain on the island of Harris. He helped the first community land buyout in modern times in Assynt, covered in depth the anti-toll campaign on the Skye Bridge, the efforts to save Gaelic and protect ferry services.
In Highland Herald he reflects on the important issues which affected the Highlands and Islands during his time. He tells how his late father-in-law, the Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean, helped him. He had never written in depth about Sorley when he was alive, as it would have been ‘excruciatingly embarrassing for both of us’, but does so now.
In Highland Herald he reflects on the important issues which affected the Highlands and Islands during his time. He tells how his late father-in-law, the Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean, helped him. He had never written in depth about Sorley when he was alive, as it would have been ‘excruciatingly embarrassing for both of us’, but does so now.
Description
From 1988 to 2017 David Ross was the Highland Correspondent of The Herald. His patch stretched from the Mull of Kintyre in the south to the Shetland island of Unst in the north; and from St Kilda, in the West, to the whisky country of Speyside in the east. From his home on the Black Isle he covered all the big stories, from the fight against a nuclear waste dump in Caithness to plans to remove half a mountain on the island of Harris. He helped the first community land buyout in modern times in Assynt, covered in depth the anti-toll campaign on the Skye Bridge, the efforts to save Gaelic and protect ferry services.
In Highland Herald he reflects on the important issues which affected the Highlands and Islands during his time. He tells how his late father-in-law, the Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean, helped him. He had never written in depth about Sorley when he was alive, as it would have been ‘excruciatingly embarrassing for both of us’, but does so now.
In Highland Herald he reflects on the important issues which affected the Highlands and Islands during his time. He tells how his late father-in-law, the Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean, helped him. He had never written in depth about Sorley when he was alive, as it would have been ‘excruciatingly embarrassing for both of us’, but does so now.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 First Few Paragraphs
- 2 The Herald’s Man in the North
- 3 Sorley
- 4 Gaelic
- 5 History Matters
- 6 Religion
- 7 Politics and Politicians
- 8 The Land: Assynt
- 9 In the Footsteps of Assynt
- 10 Sport
- 11 Catching the Ferry
- 12 Hebridean Travails
- 13 Sir Humphrey in the Hebrides
- 14 For Whom the Bridge Tolled
- 15 Blowing the Whistle
- 16 Dounreay
- 17 Cromarty Rising
- Index