Tiree History

Six Articles on Tiree History and Genealogy

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Title Author Outline
Tiree: A History Billy Clelland A complete history of Tiree from pre-historic times to 1900. A scholarly work written in a very readable style.
They Came from Tiree Gene Lamont A history of Tiree from 7000 BC to the famine years and mass emigrations of the 1800s, with a final chapter on the early years of Tiree emigrant communities in Canada.
Tiree in the Viking Age Gene Lamont Reviews and interprets the impact of Viking raids and occupation of Tiree and other islands of the Southern Hebrides.
Donald Maclean in Ruaig:
His Ancestors and Descendants
Gene Lamont A detailed account of the descent lines of Clan Maclean from its founder, Gillean of the Battle Axe, to the Macleans of Tiree and their bloodline links with Somerled, the Lords of the Isles, and Robert the Bruce.
The Fifty Years War:
The Maclean-Campbell Conflict
Gene Lamont An account of the decline of the once powerful Clan Maclean at the hands of the Argyll Campbells, and the Campbell takeover of Maclean estates in Mull, Tiree, Coll & Morven.
The Lamonts of Tiree Gene Lamont An account of the rise of Clan Lamont in mainland Scotland, its decline after the Scottish War of Independence and its decimation in the Civil Wars of the 1640s, after which a few Lamonts sought refuge in Mull and Tiree.