Word: lona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million might get you lona...
...hundreds of Western Isles, few are as precious to Scots as tiny lona (pop. 90), where many kings of Scotland are buried and where St. Columba landed in the 6th century, bringing Christianity and the Irish art of whisky distilling. In 1693 the powerful Campbells of Argyll received the 4½-sq.-mi. island as a gift from the Crown and have watched over it ever since. But from Inveraray Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Argyll, came word last week that lona will be sold to raise money for taxes. The announcement touched off concern among Scots...
...sale got around and claims a dozen offers "from all over the world." Campbell is selling the island because he owes the government $1 million, the result of estate duties incurred on the death of his father in 1973. He says he shares his countrymen's concern for lona's future and would prefer to turn it over to the National Trust of Scotland, which would ensure the preservation of its historic sites and natural beauty. But he concedes that he will have to consider selling it to a private developer if the government does not offer...
With Scottish pride still bruised following the inconclusive "devolution" referendum to give the region more autonomy, Scotsmen were rallying to save little lona; Scottish Nationalist M.P. Iain McCormick, representing Argyll, called for the government...
...have been the product of Irish scribes working in a community vulnerable to the marauding Norsemen on the far, cold Isle of lona. Describing a now lost manuscript whose splendor probably approached that of the Book of Kells, Giraldus Cambrensis, a 12th century scholar, declared: "You will make out intricacies so delicate and subtle, so exact and compact, so full of knots and links, with colors so fresh and vivid, that you might say that all this was the work of an angel, and not of a man." The Book of Kells is and no doubt always will...