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Kintyre: The Hidden Past (Paperback)
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Kintyre: The Hidden Past (Paperback)
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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. It 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.
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