Tag: Angus Nicol

Lochaber Juniors 2020 / Argyllshire Gathering 1984

Lochaber Juniors 2020 / Argyllshire Gathering 1984

Lochaber Piping Society is pleased to announce that Jahama Highland Estates is to continue as its main financial sponsor into 2020. The company manages a huge tract of land in Lochaber, much of which provides the catchment area for the water supply to the hydropower stations at Fort William and […]

Piobaireachd names in Gaelic – curios, mix-ups and puzzles

Piobaireachd names in Gaelic – curios, mix-ups and puzzles

• From the January 2008 Piping Times. By Angus Nicol The End of the Great Bridge or ‘Ceann Drochaid Mhoire’ (ceown drochitch voiruh) is something of a mix-up. Drochaid is feminine, so it should, in the genitive, be drochaide. But with the article it na drochaide (nuh drochitchuh). So the […]