CalMac runs ferries to and around the Small Isles from Mallaig for foot passengers and cyclists.

It’s not just about recycling and a sustainable mentality – community-run Eigg Electric’s solar, wind and hydro power saw it become the first island in the world to generate all its own (green) electricity in 2008. It was bought by an elderly Welsh farmer whose Hereford cattle promptly died of bracken poisoning. The Scots can be pretty hard on their thousand-year-old oppressor sometimes,” he said. When these bandits arrived in Eigg, they found them chanting their psalms in the oratory and they could not kill them there. I encountered an ex-resident of Rùm who declared that Eigg was “a bit too full of scandals and growers and dropouts”, and suggested residents needed to grow up. Der gälische Name Eige ist der Genitiv von Eag (deutsch: Einkerbung, Bodensenke) und bezieht sich wahrscheinlich auf die Gestalt des Berges An Sgurr oder auf das große Tal, das sich quer über die Insel zieht. Eigg muss übrigens vollständig durch Versorgungsschiffe verpflegt werden, beim Entladen der Boot helfe dann die gesamte Insel mit. “A lot of them come with a script that they expect you to conform to – ‘As a community we are forging forwards and revolutionising X, Y and Z’ – but usually the reality is a lot more complicated than that. And there Donnán and his community suffered martyrdom.

All rights reserved. Wild and wildly beautiful Rum offers proper mountain walking adventures. He planned to take his Rolls-Royce on a “triumphant tour” of the island, reported the Scotsman, “once it was rendered roadworthy”. He characterised them as misfits fleeing the mainstream, “wandering itinerants who found the island a nice refuge but were not mentally strong enough to cope with the life and earn a living”.

Life of St Columba, penguin books, 1995, "The martyrology of Donegal: a calendar of the saints of Ireland", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnán_of_Eigg&oldid=979847120, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 September 2020, at 03:52. Damit sollen unter anderem vier neue Häuser entstehen, das Gemeindezentrum renoviert  sowie die Versorgung mit Feuerholz für alle Bewohner gesichert werden. Die Insel Eigg gehört seit mehr als 20 Jahren ihren etwa 100 Bewohnern. Unlike other Highland lairds, Schellenberg was a vegetarian who objected to shooting, and he encouraged the Scottish Wildlife Trust to create three nature reserves. The couple had two children and, on Eigg, they no longer felt excluded from things. When Schellenberg discovered that his American friends had been charged, he demanded that their money be returned.

At least eleven[1] Scottish churches are named for Saint Donnán. Donnán however said to his community: 'Let us go into the refectory so that these men may be able to kill us there where we do our living according to the demands of the body; since as long as we remain where we have done our all to please God, we cannot die, but where we have served the body, we may pay the price of the body.' Maggie and Wes Fyffe were running a craft workshop on the east coast of Scotland when Schellenberg turned up and invited them to start a similar project on Eigg. Nature Scot runs Rum as a National Nature Reserve and welcomes visitors, not just to the quartet of eco-homes built for the new residents (chosen from 400 applicants) to join the 30-strong community. Consider animals and plants as well as people. Gometra | Undoubtedly it will be integral to Eigg’s annual film festival, which was due to launch this April, but has been delayed due to the pandemic. Reduce our consumption. The island has a fascinating history, superb wildlife and a vibrant community.