Malachy Tallack

Malachy Tallack

Malachy Tallack is 26 and lives in Fair Isle. He is a singer-songwriter, journalist, and editor of the magazine Shetland Life.

Articles by Malachy Tallack

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Farewell from Fair Isle

  • 28 January 2008
  • 7 comments

Malachy Tallack's last blog from Britain's remotest place reflects on a very different way of living

Shetland's proud musical tradition

  • 21 January 2008

The tunes and players of the islands are today recognised around the world, writes Malachy Tallack

Turning 100

  • 14 January 2008

The creation of Stewart’s spinning wheels is an incredibly involved process, with each of its many parts individually constructed from wood, metal or leather

New Year in disguise

  • 07 January 2008
  • 1 comment

Strange guizers see in 2008 on Fair Isle

Seeing the light

  • 17 December 2007
  • 3 comments

Fair Isle's two lighthouses have been central to the commmunity for the last 116 years

Preparing for winter

  • 10 December 2007
  • 1 comment

Malachy Tallack muses on the beauty and brutality of a Fair Isle winter

Guilty pleasures

  • 03 December 2007
  • 2 comments

The trials and tribulations of knitting a gansey

To knit or not to knit?

  • 19 November 2007
  • 6 comments

Malachy Tallack wrestles with his desire to knit, a practice synonymous with his Fair Isle home.

The story of Fair Isle's Heinkel

  • 12 November 2007

The contribution made by Shetland Islanders during the wars plus the story of the plane that crashed on Fair Isle

Down the food route

  • 06 November 2007
  • 3 comments

In his latest blog entry, Malachy Tallack charts the course of food from the field to the freezer

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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