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Columba's Island : Iona from Past to Present / Mairi MacArthur.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748632619
  • 9781474470391
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Author's Nate -- Part One: An I mo chridhe, I mo ghràidh -- 1 The Island Now Called I -Colm Kill -- 2 A Man of Blessed Memory -- 3 The Legacy of Colum Cille -- Part Two: An àite guth manaich bidh geum bà -- 4 Voices of Monks -- 5 Lowing of Cattle -- 6 Upon his Own Particular Lot -- 7 Turning-Points -- Part Three: Ach mun tig an saoghal gu crìch -- 8 A Cathedral Restored -- 9 The New Century -- 10 The Lads who will Never Return -- 11 Living from Land and Sea -- 12 The Visitors -- 13 Students and Schooldays -- 14 A New Community in Iona -- 15 Protected Area Number Three -- 16 The Post-War Years -- Part Four: Bidh I mar a bha -- 17 Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: For the Gaels it is I Chaluim Chille. From here, Colum Cille - or St Columba - and his successors spread their Christian mission throughout Scotland and beyond. An early king of Dál Riata was consecrated here, and later the mighty Lords of the Isles brought their chieftains for burial on Iona's soil. In more recent times the island was the setting for the Iona Community, a radical experiment in church witness and worship.Living alongside these events, and often in their shadow, there has also been a local community. This is the first book about Iona to span the ages, tracing the population from prehistoric times to the present era. From the inhabitants of an iron-age fort to the medieval village clustered beside the Cathedral walls, and onwards right up to the men and women who worked the land and sea through two World Wars, it takes a fresh look at Columba's Island. And it seeks to delve behind the layers of myth and mystery which have built up around this historic place and the lives of its people, great and small, throughout the centuries.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Author's Nate -- Part One: An I mo chridhe, I mo ghràidh -- 1 The Island Now Called I -Colm Kill -- 2 A Man of Blessed Memory -- 3 The Legacy of Colum Cille -- Part Two: An àite guth manaich bidh geum bà -- 4 Voices of Monks -- 5 Lowing of Cattle -- 6 Upon his Own Particular Lot -- 7 Turning-Points -- Part Three: Ach mun tig an saoghal gu crìch -- 8 A Cathedral Restored -- 9 The New Century -- 10 The Lads who will Never Return -- 11 Living from Land and Sea -- 12 The Visitors -- 13 Students and Schooldays -- 14 A New Community in Iona -- 15 Protected Area Number Three -- 16 The Post-War Years -- Part Four: Bidh I mar a bha -- 17 Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index

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For the Gaels it is I Chaluim Chille. From here, Colum Cille - or St Columba - and his successors spread their Christian mission throughout Scotland and beyond. An early king of Dál Riata was consecrated here, and later the mighty Lords of the Isles brought their chieftains for burial on Iona's soil. In more recent times the island was the setting for the Iona Community, a radical experiment in church witness and worship.Living alongside these events, and often in their shadow, there has also been a local community. This is the first book about Iona to span the ages, tracing the population from prehistoric times to the present era. From the inhabitants of an iron-age fort to the medieval village clustered beside the Cathedral walls, and onwards right up to the men and women who worked the land and sea through two World Wars, it takes a fresh look at Columba's Island. And it seeks to delve behind the layers of myth and mystery which have built up around this historic place and the lives of its people, great and small, throughout the centuries.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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