Previously mainly Scottish Gaelic-speaking, most of the population was evacuated to Mull on 20 June 1953, since when the island has been sparsely populated.

The town has a beach, and views across to Rathlin Island and the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland.

Campbeltown also hosts the annual Mull Of Kintyre Music Festival, which has seen acts ranging from up-and-coming local bands to well-established groups such as Deacon Blue, The Stranglers and Idlewild perform.

Mull has a coastline of and its climate is moderated by the Gulf Stream.

Mull has been used as a location in a number of feature films over the years.

The island is home to over 250 different bird species including the White-tailed Eagle, which was reintroduced in the nearby Island of Rùm and migrated to Mull, where it now has a stronghold.

Larne is 25 miles from the Scottish mainland, with stunning views across the North Channel towards the Mull of Kintyre, Rhins of Galloway, Islay and Paps of Jura often visible from the Larne area-this proximity to Scotland has had a defining influence on Larne's history and culture.

The principal town of the area is Campbeltown ( about 5½ miles by road from the Mull ), which has been a royal burgh since the mid-18th century.

The song was written in tribute to the picturesque peninsula, where McCartney has owned High Park Farm since 1966, and its headland or Mull of Kintyre.

The area has been immortalised in popular culture by the 1977 hit song " Mull of Kintyre " by Kintyre resident Paul McCartney's band of the time, Wings.

The Mull has been an important landbridge throughout history.

The area has been the site of many air crashes throughout its history ; one of the most notorious was the Chinook crash on Mull of Kintyre on 2 June 1994.

It was united with Kilmore on Mull, and the minister has traditionally preached in Kilninian and Kilmore on alternate Sundays.

Under the moniker of Mull Historical Society he has released and toured worldwide three albums: Loss ( 2001 ), Us ( 2003 ) and This Is Hope ( 2004 ), and has achieved five UK Top 75 Singles Chart hits including three within the UK Top 40, as well as three albums within the UK Top 75 Album Chart including one within the UK Top 20.

Martin Mull ( born August 18, 1943 ) is an American actor who has starred in his own television sitcom and acted in prominent films.

Mull has appeared as a guest star on the game show Hollywood Squares, appearing as the center square in the show's final season, from 2003 to 2004.

Mull has been a painter since the 1970s, and has had his work appear in group and solo exhibits throughout that time.

From 2004-2006 Currie has regularly joined singer songwriters Eddi Reader and Colin McIntyre ( aka Mull Historical Society ) and Scottish folk band Blazin ' Fiddles to perform in Scotland as part of the project " With Strings Attached ".

Tanana has been married to Cathy Mull since 1978.

Since 2005, Tunnock's has sponsored The Tour of Mull, an annual car rally held on the Isle of Mull.

Over the years, the Lochbuie branch has held lands in Mull, Scarba, Jura, Morvern, Locheil, and Tiree.

* The character Mull Pasha that is played by Dr. J. W. Müller is loosely based on the real life European military leader who served on one Middle country: John Bagot Glubb also known as " Glubb Pasha " who led the Arab Legion in Jordan.

Arbuthnot stated that one of his proudest parliamentary achievements was " organising an all-party meeting with the prime minister for the exoneration of the pilots of the Chinook that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994.

He was the voice of a clueless companion to a lazy robot ( Martin Mull ) in one episode of the series Dexter's Laboratory and guest-starred on the Adult Swim cartoon Tom Goes to the Mayor.

Part of the indented west coast of Mull and some of the offshore islands there are part of the Loch Na Keal National Scenic Area, one of 40 in Scotland.

Viewed on a large scale, Ulva and its neighbouring island Gometra appear to be a peninsula of the Isle of Mull, as they are separated from one another by narrow straits.

Beyond, one can see the Paps of Jura and the Mull of Kintyre.

The wide sand beach at Calgary () is possibly the best in Mull, and its idyllic location makes it one of the finest in Scotland.

* Detailed linear case study of one Mull family from before the Highland clearances to the present day.

He is one of several Swedish techno artists to emerge in the mid-1990s along the likes of Cari Lekebusch, Joel Mull, Jesper Dahlback, Alexi Delano, Christian Smith and more.

In past times cargoes were discharged from vessels berthed in one loch, hauled over the isthmus to the other loch, loaded onto vessels berthed there and shipped onward, allowing seafarers to avoid the sail around the Mull of Kintyre.

It was a parody talk show, hosted by Barth Gimble ( Martin Mull ) and sidekick / announcer Jerry Hubbard ( Fred Willard ), complete with a stage band, Happy Kyne and His Mirthmakers ( featuring Frank De Vol as the ironically dour " Happy " Kyne, and Tommy Tedesco as one of the guitarists ).

Her boss, Ron Richardson ( Martin Mull ), tries to convince her to leave Jack and marry him instead, while in his case, one of their mutual friends, Joan ( Ann Jillian ), tries to seduce him in a less direct manner.

Here, in one of the most heroic episodes of the battle of Inverkeithing, the Clan Maclean of Mull regiment, commanded by their chief, Sir Hector, surrounded by superior enemy forces, fought fiercely in defence of their chief, calling out, " Fear eile airson Eachainn!

In 1588, one of the ships of the Spanish Armada, named the San Juan de Silicia, landed on Mull and MacLean of Duart used troops from the ship to aid him in his warring against the MacDonalds of Clanranald and the MacIans of Ardnamurchan.

There is a fine stone circle at Lochbuie, the only one on Mull, and the remains of a pre-historic tomb.

The lifeboats were manned and two made it to Mull, but one with eighteen passengers reached the lighthouse where they were looked after for two and a half days before they could be taken to the mainland.

It was one of the original four lights commissioned by the Commissioners of the Northern Lights, and the first in the Hebrides ( the others were Kinnaird Head, Mull of Kintyre and North Ronaldsay ).

McCartney had previously had seventeen UK number one singles as a member of The Beatles, one as a member of Wings (" Mull of Kintyre "), and one with Stevie Wonder (" Ebony and Ivory "), but this was his first and only UK number one as a solo artist.

It is widely understood that Mull was inhabited shortly after the end of the last Ice Age, from around 6000 BC.

The last ceremony of this kind is said to have been performed in Mull some time before March 1824, when it was supposedly recorded in the London Literary Gazette.