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Author:
Angus Martin
Published:
1987
ISBN:
0859761959
From:
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From the back cover:
This book completes Angus Martin's trilogy on the history of his
native Kintyre. As with his previous books - The Ring-Net Fishermen
and Kintyre: The Hidden Past - the material comes from both
written and oral sources. The book presents a picture of the lives of
country folk in Kintyre from the eighteenth century to the early
twentieth. The greater part of the material has never before been
published and includes accounts of sheep-stealing, New Year's Day shinty
battles, and violent encounters between excisemen and the distillers and
smugglers of illicit whisky. It is also about the everyday lives of the
people; how they worked the land, kept their livestock, built and
furnished homes, perpared food and fuel and celebrated special days. The
book is generously illustrated with photographs both collected and taken
by the author.
Excerpt from the author's preface:
This is my third book about Kintyre, and my last, because there is not
another in the material remaining to me; and, in any case, thirteen
years have past since, in 1974, I began The Ring Net Fishermen,
and enough is enough.
These books have been both my attempt to understand my native Kintyre
- its culture and its history - and my celebration of the places and
people that have filled my life.
Place-names taken from documentary sources are spelled exactly as
they appear in these sources. For the rest, I have used 'standard'
spellings wherever these existed. But the great majority of place-names
in Kintyre are Gaelic, and there are no 'correct' anglicised forms of
Gaelic names - the only correct forms are the Gaelic forms, if these are
known, or can be deduced with certainty.
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