Collection: Local Collection Non Fiction

This booklet contains a selection of words and phrases - a mixture of Gaelic, Scots and English - from the fascinating dialect of Tarbert, Loch Fyne, complied from a variety of sources: the living speech of the villagers, books about Tarbert and 19th and 20th century local newspapers. The content...

Songs from Islay's Gaelic community, capturing the spirit of the landscape, history and culture of the island. This book is a distinctive local collaboration, drawn from recent local projects reviving traditional poetry with new music and gathering previously unpublished songs together with old f...

On 25th September 1915, long lines of British infantry advanced on heavily defended German positions in and around the small coalmining town of Loos, in the heart of the industrial area of northeast France. Thirty-six battalions (half the number which participated in the opening stages of the bat...

Booklet commemorating World War I, particularly life in the trenches.

Booklet commemorating the loss of SS Tuscania and HMS Otranto off Islay in the Great War.

Exploring the identity of God in Christian faith.