Qualla: Mull of Kintyre https://qualla.com/mull-of-kintyre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/f/mull-of-kintyre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mull of Kintyre https://qualla.com/mull-of-kintyre Mull of Kintyre: Introduction https://qualla.com/mull-of-kintyre/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. From the lighthouse on the cliff edge, on a clear day, the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland is so close that you can pick out individual houses without binoculars. Twelve miles of open water — sometimes less — separate two countries that have spent fifteen hundred years sending people, ideas, and trouble back and forth across it. The Mull of Kintyre is the place where Scotland leans toward Ireland and almost reaches it.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/f/mull-of-kintyre-wp/gcgf-mull-of-kintyre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mull of Kintyre: The Headland Country https://qualla.com/mull-of-kintyre/ Photo credit Scot oracle, Public domain. Maol Chinn Tìre is the Gaelic name: the rounded, bare headland of the head land. Mull, from maol, means bald — a hill or promontory without trees, polished by wind. Kintyre, the long peninsula it tips, takes its name from ceann tìre, head of the land, and the old anglicisation Ca...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/f/mull-of-kintyre-wp/gcgf-mull-of-kintyre-the-headland-country.mp3 0:06 2 full Mull of Kintyre: The Lighthouse on the Cliff https://qualla.com/mull-of-kintyre/ Photo credit Adam Bishop, CC BY-SA 3.0. The lighthouse here was the second commissioned in Scotland, lit for the first time on 1 November 1788. Robert Stevenson — grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson — would later supervise its modernisation, but the original tower was the work of Thomas Smith of Edinburgh, who had wo...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/f/mull-of-kintyre-wp/gcgf-mull-of-kintyre-the-lighthouse-on-the-cliff.mp3 0:06 3 full Mull of Kintyre: Mull of Kintyre, by Paul McCartney https://qualla.com/mull-of-kintyre/ Photo credit Val Vannet, CC BY-SA 2.0. Paul McCartney bought High Park Farm on Kintyre in 1966, retreated there with Linda and the children after the Beatles broke up, and stayed. In 1977 he and Denny Laine wrote a song about the place — a slow waltz with bagpipes, recorded with the local Campbeltown Pipe Band — and r...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/f/mull-of-kintyre-wp/gcgf-mull-of-kintyre-mull-of-kintyre-by-paul-mccartney.mp3 0:06 4 full Mull of Kintyre: The Land Bridge https://qualla.com/mull-of-kintyre/ Photo credit Johnny Durnan, CC BY-SA 2.0. The strait between Kintyre and Antrim has functioned as a bridge for as long as humans have lived on either side. Stone-age hunters crossed it on the way from continental Europe to Ireland via Scotland. In the fifth and sixth centuries, the Scotti — the Gaelic-speaking people of ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/f/mull-of-kintyre-wp/gcgf-mull-of-kintyre-the-land-bridge.mp3 0:06 5 full Mull of Kintyre: The Joke About the Censor https://qualla.com/mull-of-kintyre/ Photo credit Director General of the Ordnance Survey, UK, Public domain. For many years a piece of British film-industry folklore held that the British Board of Film Classification used what was called the Mull of Kintyre test: an unofficial rule that no depiction of an erect penis could be passed for general release if it deviated from the vertical b...

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