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

Results 21 to 30 of 45

Taking in the summer

  • 16 July 2007
  • 1 comment

A Shetland summer for the record books

Roll up, roll up for Fair Isle wool

  • 09 July 2007

Malachy recounts the challenges of getting all the Fair Isle sheep into one place for shearing. Military precision? Well almost!

Happy campers

  • 02 July 2007
  • 1 comment

The camps provide a supply of slave-labour for six weeks of the summer. For the price of a bowl of soup you can have someone weed your garden

The simmer dim

  • 25 June 2007
  • 2 comments

The importance of light to the residents of Fair Isle

The great outdoors

  • 18 June 2007
  • 2 comments

Tarring, hoeing, dyking... it's all in a day's work

Keeping in touch

  • 11 June 2007
  • 1 comment

Disconnection exists everywhere - whether you live in a big city or on a remote island

Fair Isle's uncertain future

  • 04 June 2007
  • 3 comments

What impact will climate change have on Fair Isle? Truth is, no-one really knows

Save our seas

  • 28 May 2007
  • 1 comment

The fishermen come, they take a few decent fish, and they throw the rest away. And at the moment there is nothing we can do about it

Genocide on Shetland

  • 22 May 2007
  • 3 comments

How the names on Fair Isle provide a glimpse of the island's history. But what happened to the indigenous people remains a mystery

Lucky, lazy natives...

  • 14 May 2007
  • 2 comments

Performing for the tourists, bad news about a caddy and ideas for words that rhyme with puffin

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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