Qualla: Tiree https://qualla.com/tiree en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/1/tiree-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tiree https://qualla.com/tiree Tiree: Introduction https://qualla.com/tiree/ Photo credit Luk~commonswiki, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1886, the British government sent a warship to Tiree. The crofters were in revolt over land and rent, the trouble was bad enough for parliament to notice, and the Royal Marines came ashore to keep order on a twelve-mile island with no hills to speak of. The uprising fizzled peacefully. What happened next is the strange part: the Marines, looking at the level machair under their boots, told the islanders they were standing on perfect golf country. The Marines went home. The fairways stayed.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/1/tiree-wk/gf51-tiree-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tiree: Tìr Iodh, the Land of Corn https://qualla.com/tiree/ Photo credit W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0. Twelve miles long, three across, lying flat as a green plate on the western edge of the Inner Hebrides. The Gaelic name Tiriodh translates as land of corn, and the soil earns it: machair grassland enriched by wind-blown shell sand, fertile enough that for centuries Tiree provisio...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/1/tiree-wk/gf51-tiree-t-r-iodh-the-land-of-corn.mp3 0:06 2 full Tiree: The Ringing Stone https://qualla.com/tiree/ Photo credit Rosser1954 - Roger Griffith, Public domain. A granite boulder sits a few yards above the high-water mark on a beach two miles east of Balephetrish, 1.8 metres tall and 3.4 metres long, deposited by a glacier and left for the islanders to find. Throw a cobble at it. The stone rings, a low metallic note that hangs in the air...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/5/1/tiree-wk/gf51-tiree-the-ringing-stone.mp3 0:06 3 full Tiree: Pudding Houses and Pony Trekking https://qualla.com/tiree/ Photo credit Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Tiree has a vernacular all its own. The old Highland blackhouse, the tigh dhu, was a stone-walled hut shared with livestock, chimneyless, the interior darkened by peat smoke. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries replaced it with whitewashed white houses across the Highlands. O...

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