Posts Tagged ‘bernera’
Darling
01Sep08
The family croft, a peat fire and an explosive interview indeed.
With the repercussions of Mr Darling’s recent Guardian interview at his croft in Bernera on the west coast of Lewis, still being felt, the Stornoway Gazette got in a good interview themselves. What’s amusing is that more than a few journalists and blogs have been blaming the islands [...]
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Tags: alistair darling, bernera, Crofting, Politics
Land Struggle: Bernera
27Jun08
Bernera Riot Cairn, Bernera, Isle of Lewis. Via xrichx
It was the incident at Bernera that set the scene for the Lewis Land Struggle – Na Gaisgich, the term applied to the confrontation that developed in the 1880s between the Island landowners and the crofting community in their struggle for land law reform and emancipation from the cruel oppression of [...]
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Tags: bernera, Crofting, isle of lewis, land, landlords, riot, struggle
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