The Silent Weaver (23 page)

pp. 95–96
‘I've known him for 30 years . . . hope to carry on.'
Tacsi
, BBC television programme by MacTV, 1997

p. 96
  ‘When I became a councillor . . . should ever have been in there.' Interview with author, 2008

p. 97
  ‘I have never met a set of people . . . could fill up the gap without half trying.' Unpublished letter to Dr Alasdair Maclean, 1951

p. 98
  ‘In Gaelic, the language of the Hebrides . . . ripple with the never-ceasing wind.'
Tir a' Mhurain
, photographs by Paul Strand, commentary by Basil Davidson, Leipzig 1962

p. 104
‘He always allows himself . . . almost as a spectator . . .'
Artistry of the mentally ill
, Hans Prinzhorn, Germany 1922

pp. 106–107
‘I am not afraid to put forward . . . we thirst more and more each day.'
Outsider Art
, Roger Cardinal, New York 1972

p. 110
‘ “Look,” said McGrath . . . see what we can find in a week.”' Interview with Joyce Laing by author, 2011

pp. 111–116
‘There were only about 12 of us . . . anywhere else in Scotland.' Interview with Joyce Laing by author, 2011

p. 117
‘To some it was a legendary institution . . . never allowed to happen again and considered best forgotten.' ‘Creative Arts and the Cultural Politics of Penal Reform: the early years of the Barlinnie Special Unit, 1973–1981', Mike Nellis, in
Journal of Scottish Criminal Justice Studies
, Volume 20, 2010

pp. 118–122
‘We'd start at the north . . . So that was the discovery of Angus.' Interview with Joyce Laing by author, 2011

p. 125
‘There was a lot of interest . . . the two exhibitions,' Interview with author, 2011

p. 125
‘I was a bit worried . . . Then I knew it was safe.' Interview with author, 2011

p. 126
‘Art Extraordinary refers to . . . disabled or have mental health issues.' Joyce Laing,
www.artextraordinarytrust.co.uk

pp. 129–130
‘I saw him work . . . “Can we help?'”' Interview with Joyce Laing by author, 2011

p. 131
‘He told me there . . . Craig Dunain hospital,'
Hidden Gifts
, directed by Nick Higgins, 2004

p. 131
‘The farm was closed . . . he started using beech leaves . . .' Interview with Joyce Laing by author, 2011

p. 131
‘He took and overlapped . . . didn't last as long as grass.' Interview with Joyce Laing by author, 2011

p. 132
‘I think it's incredibly brave . . . remit is to work with nature as a whole.'
Daily Telegraph
, 2007

p. 133
‘would promise my father that she would bring him home.'
Hidden Gifts
, directed by Nick Higgins, 2004

pp. 133–134
‘So I asked my mother . . . his horse. He was happy.' Interview with author, 2011

p. 135
‘I went back with the car . . . he was almost blind.' Interview with author, 2011

p. 135
‘They said, “It's about Angus MacPhee . . . Where do you want Angus?” ' Interview with author, 2011

p. 138
‘must be one of the most . . . devised by a government.'
Henry's Demons
, Patrick and Henry Cockburn, London 2011

p. 138
‘Prison like many of the old asylums . . . or even madly without derision or persecution.'
Henry's Demons
, Patrick and Henry Cockburn, London 2011

pp. 141–142
‘The first day after he came back we let him go out . . . But even as a youngster he was very quiet.' Interview with author, 2010

p. 143
‘We had a phone call . . . You'll have me crying next.'
Hidden Gifts
, directed by Nick Higgins, 2004

p. 144
‘He wouldn't go . . . it would turn into compost outside in the bushes . . .' Interview with author, 2010

pp. 146–147
‘It is part of the mission . . . to struggle to maintain it.' Inner Necessity exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh 1996

p. 147
‘Is creativity sometimes liberated . . . for the human spirit.' Inner Necessity exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh 1996

pp. 147–148
‘An exhibition of the work . . . but I am richer for having seen it.' Margaret McCartney, the
Guardian
, 2004

p. 148
‘I could see at first hand . . . disabled and disadvantaged individuals.' Email to the author, 2011

pp. 148–149
‘I walked into the main exhibition area . . . struggle and permanent partnership.'
Angus MacPhee, Weaver of Grass
, Joyce Laing, Lochmaddy 2000

p. 151
‘Many people of Angus MacPhee's generation . . . not just grass that we were insuring.' Email to the author, 2011

p. 153
‘They did an exhibition . . . They know what they're doing in Lausanne!' Interview with author, 2011

p. 156
‘On one occasion . . . the source of that cry.' Email to the author, 2011

pp. 156–157
‘The book uses 12 stories . . . which the children were fascinated by . . .' Email to the author, 2011

p. 157
‘Scotland is so slow . . . discover Angus MacPhee, in time . . .' Interview with author, 2010

pp. 161–162
‘You must not laugh at us Celts . . . worn itself out in mistaking dreams for realities.'
Recollections of My Youth
, Ernest Renan, Paris 1884

pp. 162–163
‘Balance, measure, and patience . . . the prolonged dealings of spirit with matter, he has never had patience for.'
On the study of Celtic literature
, part IV, London 1867

pp. 163–164
‘Once every people in the world . . . forgotten the ancient religion.'
The Celtic Element in Literature
, William Butler Yeats, London 1897

Arnold, Matthew
On the study of Celtic literature
, part IV, London 1867

Cardinal, Roger
Outsider Art
, New York 1972

Carmichael, Alexander
Carmina Gadelica, Ortha nan Gaidheal
, Edinburgh 1900

Cockburn, Patrick and Henry
Henry's Demons
, London 2011

Encyclopaedia Britannica
, London 2011

Evidence taken by Her Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry into the conditions of the crofters and cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
, London, 1884

Fraser, George MacDonald
Quartered Safe Out Here
, London 1992

Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland
, Edinburgh 1882

Hutchinson, Roger
Polly
, Edinburgh, 1990

Inner Necessity exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh 1996

Laing, Joyce Angus MacPhee
Weaver of Grass
, Lochmaddy 2000

Lawson, Bill
Croft History, Isle of South Uist
, Volume 2, Isle of Harris 1991

Linklater, Eric
The Northern Garrisons
, London 1941

MacKenzie, W.C.
History of the Outer Hebrides
, London 1903

MacLellan, Angus
The Furrow Behind Me
, introduced and translated from Gaelic by John Lorne Campbell, Edinburgh 1997

Martin, Martin
A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland
, London 1703

Melville, Michael Leslie
The Story of the Lovat Scouts, 1900–1980
, Moray, 2004

Prinzhorn, Hans
Artistry of the mentally ill
, Germany 1922

Ragon, Michel
Dubuffet
, New York, 1959

Rea, Frederick
A School in South Uist
, London 1964

Renan, Ernest
Recollections of my Youth
, Paris 1884

Report of the Royal Commission to inquire into the condition of Lunatic Asylums in Scotland, and the existing state of the law in that country in reference to Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums
, London 1857

Sargant, William and Eliot Slater, assisted by Desmond Kelly
An introduction to physical methods of treatment in psychiatry
, Edinburgh 1972

Shaw, Margaret Fay
Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist
, Oxford 1955

Shaw, Margaret Fay
From the Alleghenies to the Hebrides
, Edinburgh, 1993

Strand, Paul, commentary by Basil Davidson
Tir a' Mhurain
, Leipzig 1962

Whittet, Martin M Craig
Dunain Hospital, Inverness, One Hundred Years, 1864–1964,
Inverness 1964

Williamson, Kenneth
The Atlantic Islands. A Study of the Faeroe Life and Scene
, London 1948

Yeats, William Butler
The Celtic Element in Literature
, London 1897

Hidden Gifts
, directed by Nick Higgins, 2004

Tacsi
, by MacTV, 1997

Raigmore Hospital Reference Library, Inverness

Scotland's People website -
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

The Army Personnel Centre, MS Support Division, Historical Disclosures Section, Brown Street, Glasgow

‘A wet desert of white sand, seaweed and rock' – looking towards Benbecula from the MacPhees' croft in South Uist

Two Uist crofters in 1960 with a coil of heather rope (Dr Kenneth Robertson)

Leaving his mark on his land: Angus MacPhee's initials, lovingly carved on an outcrop of gneiss before he went to war.

The last of the horse soldiers: Angus leaving Uist on his ‘fine gelding' in September 1939