In all my life I can say there was only one place where I felt truly free. The Highlands and Islands. All those years in Scotland were the happiest of all my life. There is not a moment I think, that part of my mind or soul is not still there in Scotland. And now I am far away...
Lochaber is where I spent many happy years. great people in the Highlands. There are so many wonderful things there history is all around you. Nature is everywhere, surrounding you. The lochs, rivers, and mountains. It is a magical place. @@felipecinelli3278
I grew up on the isle of benbecula and isle of north uist for the first 17rs of my life, I'm now 22 and live near Glasgow, wouldn't trade growing up there for anything
It should be the national anthem of Scotland. My dad played it on the violin. he played in Scottish dance bands. I was born in Bournemouth. I'm grade 8 piano. Memories of playing this with him.
II served here in the REME from mid 1960 to mid 1062. The first time I heard this music was associated with a TV production entitled The Dark Islands, which they were actually filming during my final months there. One duty related to picking up any cargo and service staff from the ferry at Lochboisdale (South Uist) and one night we were joined by some of the TV crew and technicians who came to lodge at the firing range site camp on Benbecula. I also enjoyed a brief spell on St Kilda during my service.As a southern Englishman and town boy, I found there was something special about these Islands, there is an atmosphere of tranquillity that is very difficult to describe in a perfect sense and the inhabitants of a pleasurable demeanour. I have never had the opportunity in returning but in my reveries those Islands call me back and I recall the pleasure and honour of having once graced those Islands rapture.
Cant believe this is the first time I am hearing this song! Why havent I stumbled across this before after having been interested on Scottish folk songs for years? What a heartrendingly beautiful tune!
This was played at my grampas funeral in April this year 💔 it breaks my heart when i listen to this but it's comforting at the same time knowing this was his favourite song
In the late 70 s I flew a light aircraft over Benbecula . It is a fabulous rigged terrain . I am glad the engine did not fail - nowhere to land ! . I am English but spent 20years in Scotland and have been to most places in Scotland on a motor bike . Fabulous country , lovely people . Don Riggs .
50 years away from Soay and Mallaig - travelled the world...Lived in the USA, Malaysia New Zealand Australia and still... From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas - Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides:
Beautiful music! Beautiful scenery! Part of my heritage along with Irish and, possibly, Welsh, but mostly British. I feel a connection to Scotland for some reason, even though I’ve never been there. Probably never will get to go. Too old now. But I can’t enjoy music and videos of Scotland 🏴.
I live in Spain but miss Scotland so much Dark Island is my connection to Scotland , i know Alexamder and his brother Tom Jack was a beautiful person I wish he was still here I miss him
Thank you dear cousin. Did you know that Santa Anna's army had the pleasure of hearing a lone set of pipes strike up as they moved toward the Alamo, and it made many "sick with fear" as they marched toward the Texan positions.
I did not know that! I know the pipes have been played by many Scots/Brits charging into battle, including both world wars, but I’d never have guessed they were played at the Alamo. Thank you for the info! Fascinating stuff.
This song never fails to make me cry, sang it in primary school (and won first place in the burns song competition), then again at my papa's funeral, can't hear it without tearing up
Daniel Flynn, with a last name like that I'm guessing at some point your family came from Ireland? A Gael moving to another Gaelic country. I've recently been looking into my family's history, (myself, siblings & two cousins are the first of our family not to be born in the Highlands since the year dot). I've learnt that a lot of the Scots moved all over the world, many did so generations before my father moved down south for work reasons, & us Celts are to be found all over the globe! Am proud to have both Scottish & English history & heritage but it saddens me in these days to see that even though I have have 50% Celt DNA, the fact that I also have 50% English DNA makes me unwelcome in parts of our homeland... Not so much in the Highlands but more in the SNP strongholds of the Lowlands 😔. If the English side of my being harboured such nationalism & hatred I'd quite rightly be called out for being a nationalistic, racist Bawbag, & yet in Scotland it seems acceptable! I was meant to be visiting family in the Highlands in May but because of the pandemic it was cancelled. God knows when this will be over with & I can safely visit without being made to feel like a social pariah for my accent or a plague carrier for the same reason. Until I get to see those hills again, please do me the favour & love 'our' country a little bit extra on my behalf. I hope you & yours are keeping well & safe during this time 🙏👋🏴✌️🇬🇧 🏴 🇮🇪 🏴 🏴
Laura Mac Gille Fhinnein Aye your Spot on Laura full of the fighting Celtic spirit born and bred in Glasgow i’am 100% Scottish and proud of If and proud of where my distant relations came from too 🏴❤️🇮🇪
My mothers family came from Benbecula. As a child I went there on holiday. I remember my mother always placed a small piece of peat in a suitcase when we were leaving. I'm pretty old now but can still remember that wonderful smell.
I actually live on Benbecula and couldnt be more proud of it. All the pictures in this video i have seen with my own eyes and im yet to go to a location that can match its beauty, for i know it cant be beat.
Dark island. We all have a dark island at this time but we will get better and be better. Hold on it's coming sooner than you think 🤔. Listen to the words breathtaking.
This song is bringing to me the smell of the free winds in Scotland, the mist, the beauty of the land, the beautiful Soul of the People living there who were born FREE! Scots, please, admit that England has always lived OUT OF YOU, your blood, your folklore, your brain, your Genius! It is a lie, that you need England, IT NEEDS YOU TO SURVIVE! Be free, dear Brothers and Sisters, and be GREAT! Love, Yolanda from Hungary!
Lovely version of a haunting and beautiful tune. Interestingly, these images of the Western isles (where I have never been) are very like the south coast of South Island New Zealand. No wonder the Scottish settlers felt at home in Invercargill and Dunedin and maybe my Scottish grandfather who came to NZ in the early years of this century and who I never met somehow contributed to my love of Scottish traditional music.
This lovely melody-and all of Scotland's extraordinarily rich corpus of traditional music and song-does not require this kind of saccharine, over-orchestrated treatment. When stripped down to its pure, unadorned essence, it captures the true national soul-spare and enchanting.
kingofkings962 Why is this a paradox? I want a better future for my daughters and grandchildren who are still up in Scotland.I also must ask why is it a paradox to say that I live in England but my home will always be Scotland.I only live here ave never felt really at home here.Now go and troll something else man
You are a great SCOTSMAN! The future belongs to the nations not the internationalist liberals who have no roots, and the first wind will blow them away into NOWHERELAND! Love, Yolanda!
just sittin in my wee hoose by the sea havin a wee dram listening to this afa bonny ballad - aye yer right Siobhan Cosgrove Mary Duff does a beautiful version of this song too
