Who We Are
Seo Cò Sinn
Turachan Chalanais – Calanais Standing Stones
The Purple Thistle Card Company/An Companaidh Cairtean Cluaran Purpaidh began as a labour of the heart when a collection of displaced Highlanders, who, during their journey to reconnect with their ancestry found each other.
Thoisich An Companaidh Chairtean Cluaran Purpaidh mar saothair cridhe, le cruinneachadh de Gàidheil fuadaichte, ’s iad ag obair airson co-cheangail ar sinnsreadh a
thoirt gu follais.
Vision
To promote the re-connection of us ancestrally displaced Highlanders with our Clanspeople everywhere through the sharing or our stories, history and culture and by embracing and promoting our Gaelic language.
Mission
• To make available greeting cards and other products which speak to and promote our Highland culture, history and language
• To include on each greeting card and, when possible any other product we offer a unique story of our Highland culture
• To actively embrace and encourage the interest of all people in our Highland culture.
Dorian MacNeil
Highland History Consultant and Promotions Director (Canada)
Dorian is ever grateful his Viking ancestors returned from their last pirate raid to never again return to the sea to pursue their dastardly pillaging ways. It would be fishing and farming instead, leaving Dorian, generations later free to pursue more cerebral pursuits while holding true to all the wild and crazy ways of the Highlander he is.
Phoenix Ross
Artist in Residence Partner
Phoenix is a very young artist bent on creating interesting and upbeat art. Her heart is entrenched in her family’s heritage which includes multiple lines of ancestry from Barra and her surrounding isles. Phoenix hopes her art inspires future generations to come.
Micheal Mac Kinnon
Highland Gaelic Language & Culture Consultant
Micheal grew up in the Outer Hebrides on the Isle of Barra. Immersed in our culture and language from a babe, he is our language and culture guide. Micheal is also co-owner of a successful sound studio located in Glasgow.
Sidonie Wybourn
Artistic/Technical and On-line Sales Director
Whether it be by adventure or misadventure Sidone believes her meeting up with up with her ancestral highlanders exceeds happenstance. Something drew me to them…my own distant Highland ancestry perhaps. I believe that may be it.
Neil Herbold
Distribution and Promotions Director (United States)
Yesterday a lost boy from the corn fields of Iowa who found his way back to the Highlands of Scotland through DNA. Today a displaced Celtic warrior with a pure heart and deep longing for his ancestral home.
Vivian Nic Mac Neil
Artistic & Financial/Administrative Director
“Make it nice, my father told me some years back when he asked me to prepare food for a gathering… but don’t make it so nice that you make others feel bad”, he added. Of course not Daddie, I assured him. My dadaidh was a Highlander, I am the daughter of a Highlander. I understood.