If you have ancestry from the Western Isles, a useful resource is the Comhairle nan Leabhraichean/Gaelic Books Council bookshop at An Lèanag, 32 Mansfield Street, Partick, Glasgow. In addition to books on the Gaelic language itself, are many biographies and history books about specific islands and individuals, written in Gaelic and/or English.
A good example is a book that I purchased yesterday, written in Gaelic about the Vatersay raiders, a group of men from Barra who crossed over to Vatersay in 1906 to seize land from a farm run there by Lady Gordon Cathcart, an absentee owner who had only visited the island once in 54 years. The subsequent court case led to the island being bought out and divided into 58 crofts for local use.
You can find out more abou the shop at https://www.gaelicbooks.org/explore-the-shop - and it is literally next door to the Glasgow and West of Scotland FHS Library, so you could always combine a trip there with a visit to the shop, or vice versa!
Chris
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