Dornoch Firth Parish Newsletter Ready for Sunday

The Dornoch Firth Parish Newsletter is ready @ £1.50 on Sunday 25th May.

This is a bumper edition with articles on The Chosen, Holy Week thoughts, Tent for Lent Guild, Tower opening and update from groups, Care Homes, VE Day Celebrations and Dates for diary in June & July.

Music in the Cathedral: Dreams of Peace & Freedom

Friday 20th June | 7.30pm

A song cycle by Sue Casson, to celebrate 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights. Performed by the family of David Maxwell Fyfe. David has a special connection to Dornoch. His mother, Isabel, was born and grew up at Torrdarroch and he often visited his grandparents there. Stories of injustices against his family during the late Highland Clearance of Skibo fired his life-long commitment to justice and human rights. When he became enobled, he chose the name Lord Kilmuir of Creich to honour his family roots. He was made Freeman of Dornoch in 1955. Join us for this unique musical experience where David’s words weave with musical settings of poets that inspired him and archive film to tell the fascinating story of the birth of modern human rights through his eyes. A living commemoration of a living law, this beautiful song cycle shows how the seeds of ECHR grew in the wasteland of the evidence of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, where David was a prosecutor, to blossom into 75 years of peace. ‘A magnificent work about freedom, democracy and liberty’ Musical Talk —- All proceeds to go to Dornoch Firth Church of Scotland.
Tickets: £10 (Adult); £5 (Child) can be purchased after Sunday morning services from 18th May and from History Links website https://www.historylinks.org.uk/events/Peace-and-Freedom-20-June-2025

Cathedral Bells will ring for VE Day celebrations in Dornoch

On the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, Dornoch will host a wreath-laying ceremony at the War Memorial at 9am on the morning of Thursday 8th May. Later that evening, the town’s bells will be rung at 6:30pm from the Cathedral, St Finnbarr’s and the primary school.

 

Lily Casson and Robert Blackmore with a projection of their great grandparents, Sylvia and David Maxwell Fyfe