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List of Newspaper Articles from Eigg

16 June, 2024 0 Comments

I listed down several newspaper articles mentioned in the Isle of Eigg book. I won’t discuss and comment on all the articles in detail; many of them are related to ownership disputes and buyouts, topics that have been thoroughly discussed elsewhere. But I will elaborate on the more interesting ones.

I should also add here that my mother’s “Eigg Scrapbook” is rather random and haphazard. Thus, there are three articles written in the 1950s, whereas the other articles are written in the 1990s, regarding the sale and management of Eigg, the concerns of the owners, Schellenberg and Maruma, and the concerns of the islanders. 

Newspaper Articles Listed chronologically
DateNewspaperName of article and author
June 1951Scottish Field“Eigg the Island without an Inn,” by Donald Nicholas.
June 23, 1952Scottish Daily Mail“They Have Big Hearts in the Small Isles” by John MacLennan. 
May 28, 1957Scottish Daily Express“The One Road Isle” by John Herries McCulloch
July 12, 1962Weekly Scotsman“Story of the Clans – MacGillivray … Chief of a Red Indian Tribe” by George B. MacGillivray (of Fort William, Ontario)
Jan. 18, 1994The Herald“No Man is an Island” by Lesley Riddoch 
March 24, 1995Daily Express“My Dream for Eigg” by Deborah Collcutt. 
March 30, 1995The Herald“Lord of the Troubled Isle” by Margaret Vaughan. Nb. I will not comment on this. 
April 5, 1995The Herald“Former Owner Makes Final Break from Eigg”
17 Feb., 1996The Scotsman“The Eigg Files” by Stephen Breen.
August 28, 1996Daily Express“Why our Ship Should Come In” by Alaisdair Fraser
August 28, 1996Daily Express“Why should this Island Get our Cash?” by George Hume. I won’t comment on this article.
September 5, 1996Daily Express“The Eigg dream is cracking up” by Brian Swanson
May 6, 2001 Sunday Mail“Dugald’s Erection is our Latest National Treasure.”Nb. This wasn’t included in my mother’s newspaper clippings, but was sent me by my cousin, Dawn Driscoll (nee McGillivray) in 2024. 

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