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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Life & Society
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!
Life & Society
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
Life & Society
The simmer dim
- 25 June 2007
- 2 comments
The importance of light to the residents of Fair Isle
Lifestyle
The great outdoors
- 18 June 2007
- 2 comments
Tarring, hoeing, dyking... it's all in a day's work
Life & Society
Keeping in touch
- 11 June 2007
- 1 comment
Disconnection exists everywhere - whether you live in a big city or on a remote island
Life & Society
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
Life & Society
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
Life & Society
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
Life & Society
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











