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INDEX
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Aberdaron, 299–300, 303, 310–11
Abersoch, 293
Aberystwyth, 293
Abrams, Lynn, 218
Acair (Stornoway press), 109
Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart, 250
Achill, island of, 253–4
Adam, Seumas, 191–7, 345
Adomnan, 206
Aikerness Holm, 68–9
Aith (town of Shetland), 38
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, 128, 138, 171, 172, 173–4, 344
Alexandrine desert, 283, 285
Amargin (ancient Irish poet), 286
AMEC (energy consortium), 113
An Garbh-eilean, island of, 134
An Teallach (‘the Forge’, mountain), 3, 153, 155
An Tiaracht (mini-skellig), 277
Anderson, Andrew and Danny, 29–30
Anderson, Iain, 74
anemones, 279, 333
angler fish, 236
Anglican communion, 342
Apollo moon missions, 69
Applecross Peninsula, 165, 167, 168
Araidh na Suiridh (Skye), 94
Aran Islands (Oileáin Árann), 210, 254–7, 258, 261, 340; bounty from shipwrecks, 263; cliff-face place names, 263–4; Dún Aonghasa (clifftop fort), 261–2, 263; An Sunda Caoch (‘the Blind Sound’), 262–3; threat to fishing community, 264, 265
archaeological heritage, xi; absence of inscriptions on gneiss, 92; Barra Isles, 116–17; Erskine Beveridge, 111; Broch of Mousa on Havera, 44–5, 47; Callanish stone circle, 92; on early Admiralty maps, 239–40; early wooden tools as rare in Scotland, 168; and female scientists of the coast, 282; Gokstad ship, 26; Inner Sound and Skye, 167–71; intermingling of eras, 8–9, 45–6, 60, 79, 80; Jarlshof on Shetland, 50; microliths, 168; mysteries of Papay, 65; ‘papa’ sites, 63–6, 117–20; and role of sea in Mesolithic world, 168–70; Rousay coast, 77, 78–81; runic inscriptions at Maes Howe, 86; South Welsh history, 294; west coast of Ireland, 206, 211–12, 214; see also human history, traces/hints of
Arctic terns, 32, 38
Ardmore, 195–6
Argentina, 8
Argyll coastline, 198–204, 208
Arkle (mountain), 125–6, 134
Arnold, Matthew, ‘Dover Beach’ (1867), 298
Arran, Isle of, 295
Arranmore, island of, 210
Arthurian legend, 334
Asleifson, Sweyn, 66
Assynt, 124, 254, 317
Atlantic (film, 2016), 264–5
auks, 7, 17, 62–3, 98, 315
Avenius, Rufus (Roman poet), 209
Azoulay, Ariella, 226–7
Baleshare (Uist township), 111
Balfours (Orcadian laird family), 73
Balnakiel (near Cape Wrath), 123, 128–9, 172
Balor (Irish god of darkness), 213, 214, 225
Bardsey, island of (Ynys Enlli), 291, 294, 295–304; current island community, 304–10
Barker, George, 319
barley, 47, 219–20
Barmouth (Wales), 292, 293
barnacle geese, 174
Barra, 91–2, 109, 116, 209; lighthouse keeping on, 204
Barra Head (Beàrnaraigh), 116
Barrett, Josie, 244
Bateman, Meg, 345
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, 83
HMS Beagle, 239
bearberry, 160
Beaufort, Francis, 207
Beinn Dearg Mòr (mountain), 155
Beinn Eighe nature reserve, 159–60
Belize, xi, 86, 87, 88
Belmullet (County Mayo), 245
Below, Will Ernst von, 244–5
Ben Loyal (mountain), 125
Ben Stac (mountain), 125, 137
Berger, John, 224, 329–30
Bernard van Leer Foundation, 105
Beveridge, Erskine, 111
biodiversity, 237
birlinns (boats), 171–2, 173–4, 244
Birmingham, University of, 10–12, 339
bladderwrack, 23
Blasket Islands (Na Blascaodaí), 271, 276–9, 340
bluethroats, 201
boatbuilding and boats: birlinns, 171–2, 173–4, 244; currachs, 208–9, 221, 255; Galway hooker sailboats, 254; Irish, 207, 208–9, 221; Irish small boat tradition, 210, 245–6, 247, 287–8; Norse design, 26, 27, 28, 134, 171–2; Sgoth Niseach (traditional Ness boat), 98, 108; on Shetland, 23, 26–8, 29–31; sixareens, 28, 29–31; symbolic ships, 172; transport of cattle, 150, 151, 152; in Wales, 292; on Western Isles, 98, 108; Zulu-class sailing boats, 221–2
Bonar, Patrick, The Story of the Cope (2009), 229
Brae of Moan (Rousay), 78
Brathwaite, Kamau, 87
Brazil, 191
Breen, Colin, 206
Brent Spar scandal, 248
Breton culture, 10, 295, 324, 334
British Empire: agents of in Western Isles, 100; anti-Gaelic propaganda, 103–4; boys’ adventure periodicals, 191–2; clearances, 8, 78, 80–1, 95, 96, 100–1, 102, 127, 136, 187, 188, 195–6; and elites of Victorian Scotland, 88; mapping of, 239–40, 241–2; and Skye, 178–9; and slavery, 88, 190
British Museum, 280–1
Britishness, 341–2
Broadford (Skye), 150
Bronze Age culture, 60, 78, 80, 262
Broo (deserted village on Shetland), 49, 92–3
Brook, Julie, 117
Brough Holm (Shetland skerry), 23
Brown, Peter, 294
the Bull and the Cow rocks, 198, 277, 287
Bullock, William, 62
Bunting, Basil, Briggflatts (1966), 321
Burma, 179
Burra Firth, 18–20
the Burren, 254–6
Bury, J.B., 146, 149
buttercups, 42, 93
butterworts, 37
Cairngorm range, 145
calcareous shell-sand, 93, 94, 95
Caldey (Pembrokeshire island), 291
Callanish stone circle, 92
Calve, island of (Tobermory Bay), 196–7
Calvin and Hobbes (cartoon strip), 189
Calvinism, 128, 304
Campbell, Anne, 113–14
Canna, isle of, 172, 189
Cannon, Moya, 259–60, 268
Cape Clear Island, 277, 287
Cape Wrath, 2, 123, 127, 134
Cara, isle of, 189
Carbost, Old Inn at, 181
Cardigan Bay (Bae Ceredigion), 291–2, 311
Caribbean, 86, 87, 88, 190
Carlyle, Thomas, 148
Carrigskeewaun (County Mayo), 254
Carrowteige, Connolly’s pub at, 245–7
Carson, Rachel, 18, 345
Cartesian philosophy, 343
Carthusian monks, 174–5
Carthy, Hugh, 169
cartography see maps
cathedral architecture, 32–3
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