Bhatarsaigh Agus Na Raiders

Bhatarsaigh Agus Na Raiders highlights the significance and impact of the Vatersay Raiders, a landmark early 20th century episode which captured the public imagination and caused a political “furore” within politics and the media.

Gaelic-speaking Vatersay (Bhatarsaigh), the southernmost inhabited island in the Western Isles, became ‘the theatre upon which was fought one of the keenest conflicts in the struggle for land reform in the Hebrides’.

This is the story behind the Vatersay Land Raid, why it happened, what happened to those involved and the impact it made on the island that still resonates to this day.