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Duais Dìleab Chaluim Chille / The Colmcille Legacy Award, is a small national award scheme created in partnership by Bòrd na Gàidhlig and the Culture, Heritage and Arts Assembly, Argyll and Isles (CHARTS) to commemorate the life and cultural legacy of Colmcille throughout the Year of Colmcille, 1500.

The project offers monthly arts awards and online exhibition to profile and support Gaelic artists work, aligned to themes of Colmcille. For information about Year of Colmcille, see: https://colmcille.net/ This is a digital project to meet social distancing challenges presented by the impacts of Covid-19 at the time of the launch of Colmcille 1500. 

Awards are designed to support work which celebrates, remembers and interprets the role of Colmcille in the past and in contemporary society. Aiming to support a variety of work across arts media, artists are invited to submit proposals to support the development of new work, or highlight existing work, linked to the life and legacy of Colmcille. 

This project will celebrate Gaelic arts and culture using a range of arts media and themes related to Colmcille, which can be shown to advantage in an electronic media, online, context. 

Applicants should note that two award types are available: 

• Up to 18 arts awards will be made to artists living in Scotland 
• A single heritage award will be made to artist/s living in Argyll and Bute region only 

We aim to offer at least one award at each selection stage to a young person, aged between 16-26 years.

Application deadlines  
Heritage Award – July 31st 2020 

Arts Awards – This is a rolling programme, running until 2021. You may apply at any time. Up to 18 awards will be made in total.

Full details on the CHARTS website here.

Here is artist Catriona Patience who received funding for a new art project from the Colmcille Legacy Award by CHARTS (funded by Bòrd na Gàidhlig).

Fàilte oirbh don chiad Cèilidh nan Gàidheal air loidhne far an coinnich luchd-labhairt na Gàidhlig is na Gaeilge air Zoom airson beagan ceòl, cainnt is craic fhaighinn còmhla ann an cànain nan Gàidheal.

09/09/20. 8f. Cleachd an ceangal seo airson faighinn a-steach ann. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7717224360.

Ma tha sibh dìreach airson coimhead, rach dhan duilleag www.facebook.com/colmcille1500

Fáilte go dtí an chéad Céilí na nGael ar líne ina mbuailfidh cainteoirí Gàidhlig agus Gaeilge le chéile ar Zoom le haghaidh roinnt ceoil, cainte agus craic sna teangacha Gaelacha.

09/09/20. 8pm. Bain úsáid an nasc seo chun rochtain a fháil air https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7717224360.

Mura dteastaíonn uait ach féachaint, téigh chuig an suíomh

www.facebook.com/colmcille1500

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The book “Columba – Faith of an Island Soldier” by Bruce Ritchie was published last year. Here is a short video about the work.

Bannaght Columb Killey as yeearreeyn share voish Mannin

The blessing of Columb Killey and best wishes from Mann. By Phil Gawne [English version of Manx below]

Choud’s ta recortyssyn soilshey dooin ta feailley ny margey er ve goll er cummal ayns Skeerey Cairbre jannoo ard-eailley jeh Columb Killey er dyn 1733. Ayns e chooinaghtyn, screeu Dr Juan y Clague, eshyn ren recortys beeal-arrish as arraneyn as carryn tradishoonagh as hooar baase ayns 1908, “ta cooinaght aym pene er ollan, snaie olley, eggaghyn dy eaddagh, eeast chirmit, eeast sailjey as lhiare goll er creck er’n nah laa as feed Mean Souree er Laa Columb Killey” as “ta mee er nakin wheesh as feed bwaagyn ayn ry hoi creck lhune eddyr yn daa ghroghad.”

Hie yn margey magh ass ayns ayrn s’jerree y nuyoo keead jeig agh v’eh aavioghit ayns 1912 ec yn Ard-jaghin Kewley as ta laa seyr ny skeerey er ve ayn er dyn shen, lesh spoyrtyn, taishbynys troar as ellynyn, as kiaull as rinkaghyn. Hig keeadyn dy leih dagh blein dy chur shilley er ny goaill ayrn ayn as she laa mie inshit foast ayns blein heshoil ny Manninee

Records show that there has been a festival, or fair, held in Arbory Parish celebrating Columb Killey since at least 1733. In his recollection of the fair, folklorist and song collector Dr John Clague who died in 1908 says “I remember myself wool, wooden thread, webs of cloth, dried fish, salt herrings and leather, sold on the twenty second day of the middle month of the summer, on St Columba’s Day” and “I have seen as many as twenty tents for the selling of ale between the two bridges.”

The fair appeared to have died out in the latter part of the nineteenth century but it was revived in 1912 by Archdeacon Kewley and there has been a parish holiday with sports, arts and produce show and music and dancing ever since. The fair attracts hundreds of visitors and participants every year and continues to be a highlight of the Manx social calendar.