Colour photograph of St Columba’s Chapel at Kirkapol before renovation in 2001.
Tag Archives: st columba
2017.52.2
Softback book ‘In Search of Colmcille: The Legacy of St Columba in Ireland and Scotland’, Islands Book Trust, 2015.
This volume contains chapters – in English, Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaeilge – from two conferences organised by the Islands Book Trust in Lewis and Donegal on the theme of Columba – his life and legacy. Includes a chapter by Donald Meek ‘St Columba and ‘Celtic Christianity’, with references to Tiree. (Pages 34 – 45)
2013.4.3
Article “Carnal love and priestly ordination on 6th century Tiree” by Michael Meckler, 2000
Print copy of an academic paper on 6th century politics and whether murderer Aed the Black, who became king of the Ulaid, stayed on Tiree.
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2011.92.1
Book `Andoman of Iona`
Hardback book `Andoman of Iona – Theologian, Lawmaker, Peacemaker`. A collection of studies about the abbot of Iona in the late seventh century. See page 219 for Tiree.
2006.60.1
MD recording of a talk by Ian Fisher in An Talla on 29/3/2006.
Talk titled ‘Tiree in its Columban context’ by Ian Fisher in An Talla on 29/3/2006 during the Tiree Conference of the Society for Northern Studies.
2005.49.1
Mini-disk recording of a talk Rev. Bob Higham held in the Rural Centre on 31/3/2005.
Talk by the Rev. Robert Higham held in the Rural Centre on 30th March 2005 about Tiree’s Christian heritage from St. Columba to the present day.
2004.51.3
Gaelic map of Scotland and Ireland titled `Tir Cholm Cille`.
Gaelic map of Scotland and Ireland at a scale of 1:1,2000,000.
1998.263.8
Hardback book `Hebridean Journey` by Halliday Sutherland.
An account of the tour by the author around the Hebrides by steamer (for Tiree see pp 108-138).
1998.321.5
Paperback book `Saints of Scotland` by Edwin Sprott Towill.
The saints whose names are commemorated in Scottish churches, towns, villages, farms, hills, well and rivers.
1998.321.4
Paperback book `Sea-Road of the Saints` by John Marsden.
Account of the holy men of the Hebrides and the Celtic Christianity of early Scotland.