Today, Sunday 29th August 2010 at 3.00pm, Radio na Gaidheal is broadcasting a service recorded on St Kilda to mark the 80th anniversary of the voluntary evacuation of its population from the island.
The service was led by Argyll Church of Scotland Minister, the Reverend Roderick MacLeod of Cumlodden Church in Mid Argyll.
He is a Gaelic scholar and a native Gaelic speaker, born and raised in Lochmaddy in North Uist.
The folk from St Kilda have an organic link with historic Argyll, being relocated after their evacuation, to work in the forests at Lochaline in Morvern on the north shore of the Sound of Mull.
The imagination can barely get near what it must have been like for the evacuees to leave the only environment they had known in experience and folklore – a barren, storm-swept rocky archipelago far out in the Atlantic – and immediately find themselves under tall trees in a pine forest.
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