After the album his record label, Warners, dropped him. The third Mull Historical Society album, "This Is Hope", was released on B-Unique Records in 2004. It was inspired by a two-month visit to the United States, ending in New Orleans. One of its songs is about the death of David Kelly, and the album also includes a recording of MacIntyre's grandmother. The covers of "Loss" and "This Is Hope", and several of the videos and stage sets from this era, feature 'The Giant Dog With The Wig', which MacIntyre created using MS Paint. In January 2005, Mull Historical Society was voted the twelfth-greatest Scottish band of all time by "The List" magazine. MacIntyre released "The Water" under his own name in 2008. He had written the album in New York, his wife's home city. It was produced by Nick Franglen from Lemon Jelly; MacIntyre had produced the first three albums himself. The last track, "Pay Attention to the Human", features a poem written and performed by Tony Benn. In 2009, Irvine Welsh used the track "You're a Star" from "The Water" in his comedy "Good Arrows". MacIntyre's fifth album "Island", the second under his own name, was released in the UK in 2009. It features Kenny Anderson (King Creosote) on backing vocals on "Out Stealing Horses" and was recorded in MacIntyre's old primary classroom in Tobermory. In 2012, MacIntyre returned as Mull Historical Society for his sixth album "City Awakenings", which is about London, New York and Glasgow. In early 2014 MacIntyre gigged as Mull Historical Society again, playing "Loss" in its entirety, to promote the best-of album which was released in 2015. In June 2014 MacIntyre's project INK released its first single, "Control". "Dear Satellite", a new Mull Historical Society record, was released in April 2016. MacIntyre's first novel, "The Letters of Ivor Punch", was published in May 2015 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. It is set on Mull. Eileen Desmond  Eileen Christine Desmond (; 29 December 1932 – 6 January 2005) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Health and Minister for Social Welfare from 1981 to 1982. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1965 to 1969, 1973 to 1981 and 1981 to 1987.