The last generation: The end of survival?

Politics & Social Sciences

Martin, Angus

Social Sciences

Fontana

The ring-net fisherman

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

J. Donald

This text portrays the lives of ordinary people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll. It relates the evolution of the mixed stock of Kintyre through the subsequent settlements of the Lowlanders and Irish, also exploring sanitation, epidemic diseases and housing conditions.

Kintyre: The Hidden Past

John Donald

Kintyre country life

To meet popular demand, here is a new paperback edition of this famous text. It is more than a history of the ring net, for the author, himself a fisherman, is primarily concerned with the fishermen and their way of life ashore and afloat.

The Ring-Net Fishermen

Technology

Hyperion Books

From prehistoric times, fishing has played a vital part in the life and culture of Scotland. For a long period from the 18th century on, whaling was also an important factor in the Scottish economy. This book investigates fishing and whaling in Scotland, beginning with the archaeological evidence and progressing to current developments and the future of fishing. The author describes methods of fishing and associated skills and technologies, and discusses the lives of fishing communities, covering boat building, fishing gear manufacture, fish curing and the many other activities related to fishing.

Fishing and Whaling

History

Europe

Natl Museums of Scotland

Graveyards fascinate many folk. Many inscriptions tell abbreviated stories, which a little research can expand. Some offer philosophical advice, but there are also hidden depths of history, biography and sociology. Kilkerran church, Kintyre, Scotland, first appears on record in the mid-thirteenth century. The burial-ground has grown immensely since its expansion, in 1857, beyond the walls of the original churchyard. "Kilkerran Graveyard Revisited" forms a sequel to "An Historical and Genealogical Tour of Kilkerran Graveyard" by the same author and illustrator, published by Kintyre Civic Society in 2006 and still available from the Society. Angus Martin was born in Campbeltown. Editor of "The Kintyre Magazine", this is his twentieth book. Artist George John Stewart traces his Kintyre connections to the 19th Century. He started The Oystercatcher Gallery in Campbeltown in 1989.

Kilkerran Graveyard Revisited: A Second Historical and Genealogical Tour

Grimsay Press

The House of Argyll acquired its Kintyre lands in 1607 and sold them in 1956.  During that period, the Campbells exerted a powerful influence in Kintyre, through politics, religion, and agrarian reform.  The core of this book is the 5th Duke of Argyll's estate instructions to his Kintyre chamberlain, or manager, from 1785 to 1805.  Through these annual directions, and the chamberlain's responses, emerge the complex workings of a West Highland estate.  Kintyre historian Angus Martin has taken the late Eric R. Cregeen's hitherto unpublished transcript of the instructions and illuminated them with a lengthy series of commentaries, explaining agricultural practices, social customs and cultural nuances, and providing biographical sketches of the chief personalities of the time.  The study is informatively introduced by both Cregeen and Martin, enhanced by 72 illustrations, ranging from eighteenth century portraits to present-day photographs, contains a reproduction of George Langlands' celebrated 1801 map of Kintyre, and is fully furnished with references, notes and index.

Kintyre Instructions: The 5th Duke of Argyll's Instructions to His Kintyre Chamberlain, 1785-1805

Business & Money

Cregeen, Eric R.

Economics

Kintyre poet and historian Angus Martin's interest in place‑names extends back over 40 years. This meticulously researched exploration covers over 200 Gaelic place-name elements, plus many others of Norse, Scots and English origin. Over 1200 individual place-names are examined, from the well-known to the obscure and forgotten. These names are drawn from a diverse range of sources, from mid-19th century Ordnance Survey maps and field notebooks to fishermen and shepherds whose store of names contained many known only to themselves. As well as looking at the origin and meaning of place-names, Martin also looks at their historical associations - the events and families connected with them - to provide a full and fascinating account which will illuminate the landscape of his native Kintyre. This, then, is a book which will interest not only students of place-names, but also archaeologists, local historians, genealogists, naturalists, and anyone with a passion for Kintyre and its colourful past.

Kintyre Places and Place-Names

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

This social history of the 'ordinary' people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll, in western Scotland, has become a classic since its original publication in 1984. It is reprinted here with a new Introduction by the author, a native of Kintyre who knows its geography intimately. The greater part of the book is based on original research from a wide range of sources, from nineteenth century registers of the poor to material passed on through the oral tradition. Angus Martin traces the evolution of the extraordinarily mixed stock of Kintyre from the Gaelic settlement in the fifth century AD through the subsequent settlements of the Lowlanders and Irish, and explores the nature of these diverse cultural legacies. The darker aspects of social history - epidemic diseases, sanitary and housing conditions and destitution - are also explored, and the sinister activities of grave-robbers in nineteenth century Kintyre are substantiated for the first time. There is also information on Irish immigrant families, the anglicisation of native surnames and surviving Gaelic elements in the local dialect.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

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