The Hebrides, also known as Fingal's Cave, is a famous overture composed by Felix Mendelssohn while residing on these islands, while Granville Bantock composed the Hebridean Symphony.

Bantock's Hebridean Symphony was recorded by the CBO on 28 January 1925 at Riley Hall, Constitution Hill, Birmingham.

His music was influenced by folk song of the Hebrides ( as in his 1915 Hebridean Symphony ) and the works of Richard Wagner.

An alternative recording of the Hebridean Symphony ( together with the Old English Suite and Russian Scenes ) is available on Naxos, with the Czecho-Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra ( Kosice ) conducted by Adrian Leaper.

* The Sea Reivers, an Orchestral Ballad ( 1920, a discarded scherzo from the Hebridean Symphony )

* The Botanist-artisan dry gin from the Hebridean island of Islay, made with 31 wild botanicals, of which 22 are native to the island.

Lloyd Laing noted that this pattern accorded with Hebridean custom up to the early 20th century suggesting that the husband's bed was the larger and the wife's was the smaller.

At the front of each bed lie the stumps of stone pillars that may have supported a canopy of fur ; another link with recent Hebridean style.

The female Song Thrush builds a neat cup-shaped nest lined with mud and dry grass in a bush, tree or creeper, or, in the case of the Hebridean subspecies, on the ground.

* mixed with fat, water, onions and seasoning, and boiled in a sheep's intestine to make " marag geal "' Outer Hebridean white pudding, served sliced with fried eggs at breakfast.

* Caristiona, A Hebridean Seascape ( 1920, revised in 1943-44 with The Sea Reivers and published as Two Hebridean Sea Poems )

It is associated with the traditional Hebridean song, the Eriskay Love Lilt ; with the Eriskay pony and the Eriskay jersey ( made without any seams ).

: At the beginning, the firm offered a range of spirits: Campbeltown whisky from the Kintyre Peninsula ; whisky from the Inner Hebridean Island of Islay, with its pungent smoky flavor ; patent still, or grain, whisky ; and “ Glenlivat ” ( sic ), Speyside whisky.

Highland Airways who originally operated the route to Oban went into administration in 2010, but a new operator, Hebridean Air Services now operates the route under a PSO with flights to Oban, Tiree and Colonsay.

In 1898, the Hebridean Light Railway Company was proposed, with a terminus at Stornoway, but the line was never constructed.

Steadily rising sea levels since that time then isolated the island, which is made up of Hebridean gneiss interspersed with some granite.

However, as is often the case with Hebridean island names, there are a number of additional complications.

Clan MacNeil, also known in Scotland as Clan Niall, is a highland Scottish clan, particularly associated with the Outer Hebridean island of Barra.

A Hebridean ( sheep ) | Hebridean sheep with one horn on one side and two on the other.

The Soay should not be confused with two other short-tailed breeds also associated with St. Kilda: the Boreray ( from Boreray, another of the islands, and formerly also living on Hirta ), and the " St. Kilda ", a former name for the Hebridean sheep ( which is probably not in fact from St Kilda at all ).

The three records suggest that John was a prominent West Highland or Hebridean leader, much like the other men the records associate him with.

As the poem associated this MacNicol with ships, it may be further evidence that John was a leading Hebridean.

The actual number in Scotland varies considerably — between approximately 350 to 500 due to the use of the term " island dun " for well over one hundred Hebridean examples — a distinction that has created a divide between mainland Scottish crannog and Hebridean islet settlement studies.

If not " true " crannogs, small occupied islets ( often at least partially artificial in nature ) may be referred to as island duns, although rather confusingly, 22 islet-based sites are classified as ' proper ' crannogs due to the different interpretations of the inspectors or excavators who drew up field reports Canmore search for crannog in the Western Isles Hebridean island dwellings or crannogs were commonly built on both natural and artificial islets, usually reached by means of a stone causeway.

*" Dear Esther " is a 2012 video game by thechineseroom that allows the player to traverse an uninhabitated Hebridean island ; as the player does so letters and diary excerpts are recalled audibly by the narrator to reveal the story and encourage progression towards certain areas.

The experimental first-person adventure video game Dear Esther takes place on an unnamed Hebridean island.

The earliest comprehensive written list of Hebridean island names was undertaken by Donald Monro in 1549, which in some cases also provides the earliest written form of the island name.

Sergeant Neil Howie receives an anonymous letter requesting his presence on Summerisle, a remote Hebridean island famed for its popular and unusually abundant fruit produce, to take the case of a young girl named Rowan Morrison, who has been missing for a number of months.

With its many cliffs and rocky outcrops, Little Cumbrae bears more of a resemblance to a Hebridean island than to some of its neighbours in the Clyde.

There are no direct ferry services from Benbecula to the mainland, but a service operated by Caledonian MacBrayne from Lochboisdale on South Uist provides a five-hour crossing to Oban on the mainland, whilst another service from Lochmaddy on North Uist provides a two-hour crossing to Uig on the Inner Hebridean island of Skye, and hence to the mainland via the Skye Bridge.

* Scarp – a Hebridean island which had a " parliament " similar to St Kilda's

In 1773 James Boswell and Samuel Johnson arrived on the island during their Hebridean tour.

On 30 April 2010 a plaque was unveiled to the memory of Marshal of France Jacques MacDonald on the Outer Hebridean island of South Uist, the familial home of MacDonald.

The island is extremely flat by Hebridean standards, rising to only 12 metres above sea level and known for its long sandy beach.

Written in the style of Hebridean work songs to the tune Creag Guanach from Lochaber, it invites the listener to imagine the boatsmen of the island singing in time to the pulling of their oars.

According to Clan MacLeod tradition, Leod inherited some of his lands from a foster father, who was a sheriff of the Hebridean island of Skye ; other lands he inherited from his father-in-law, who was also a lord on Skye.

However, in 685, when Ecgfrith was killed at the battle of Nechtansmere, Aldfrith was recalled to Northumbria, reportedly from the Hebridean island of Iona, and became king.

He lives in Offham near Lewes in East Sussex and has a holiday home on the Hebridean island of Tiree.

The location of the main story in To the Lighthouse, the house on the Hebridean island, was formed by Woolf in imitation of Talland House.

Islay whisky is Scotch whisky made on Islay ( ) or Ìle in Gaelic, the southernmost of the Inner Hebridean Islands located off the west coast of Scotland.

It is given mainly from February to June by the Outer Hebridean race, but from November to July by the more widespread subspecies.

The youth hostel on Berneray is part of the Gatliff Hebridean Hostels Trust.

The annual Hebridean Celtic Festival is a 4-day community led festival which attracts over 10, 000 visitors during July of each year.

The main local newspaper for the Western Isles is the Stornoway Gazette, the Hebridean being a sister-title.

Scotland is host to two interceltic music festivals – the Scottish Arts Council funded Celtic Connections, Glasgow, and the Hebridean Celtic Festival, Stornoway – that were founded in the mid 1990s.

Craighouse () is the main settlement on the Scottish Inner Hebridean Isle of Jura, in Argyll and Bute.

The story of Duncan Campbell during the Hebridean Revival is told in the 2008 documentary film Great Christian Revivals.

A Hebridean bard is said to have accompanied Bjarni Herjolfsson on his voyage around Greenland in 985 which sighted the mainland.

The name Applecross is at least 1300 years old and is not used locally to refer to the 19th century village with the pub and post office, lying on the small Applecross Bay, facing the Inner Sound, on the opposite side of which lies the Inner Hebridean island of Raasay.