Hardback book `Scotland`s Music` by John Purser.
Descriptions of classical and traditional music from the 8th century to the present day, with colour illustrations.
1998.323.19
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Dates: 1600s
2003.70.10
Newspaper cutting `The Quern-Dust Calendar` by Raghnall MacilleDhuibh.
Stories about the Lord MacKenzie of Kintail, his brother-in-law MacLean of Duart and a sea-battle between the MacRaes of Kintail and the macDonalds of Glengarry and Knoydart.
2003.70.8
Newspaper cutting `The Quern-Dust Calendar` by Raghnall MacilleDhuibh.
Article about the Ardnamurchan pirate Archibald MacDonald (Mac Iain Ghiorr) c. 1600-1650.
2003.70.9
Newspaper cutting `The Quern-Dust Calendar` by Raghnall MacilleDhuibh.
Stories about Robert MacIain Ghiorr.
2003.48.13
Newspaper cutting `The Quern-Dust Calendar` by Raghnall MacilleDhuibh.
A story from the ceilidh-house about Mac Iain Ghiorr, a famous thief.
1998.38.1
Photocopied letter dated 1962 from the curator of the Hunter Coin Cabinet, the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
Letter dated 1962 from the curator of the Hunter Coin Cabinet of the Hunterian Museum Glasgow about three 17th century coins found in Balemartine by James MacArthur, Moss. His son Neil still has the coins.
1998.34.1
Photocopied extract from `Fast Ecclesiae Scoticanae`, Vols IV and VIII.
Extracts from `The succesion of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation`, Vol IV, `The Synods of Argyll, Perth and Stirling`, pp 108-110; Vol VIII `Addenda & Corregenda 1506-1949`, pp 330-340.
2003.19.5.1
Photocopied newspaper cutting about hiring bulls and Tiree`s cattle exports.
Two photocopied articles from The Scottish Farmer, 2003: (1) Crofters Commission scheme which hires out bulls to crofters, illustrated with a colour photograph of Lachie MacKinnon, Parkhouse, (2) Tiree`s export of cattle 500 years ago.
1998.27.6
Photocopied letter from M MacArthur, Middleton dated 4/5/1950.
Letter from M. MacArthur, Middleton dated 4/5/1950 with a short history of the church in Tiree and a list of ministers from 1676 to 1917.
2003.8.14
Hardback book `An Leanabh Mor` edited by Malcolm MacLean and Theo Dorgan.
Anthology of 100 Gaelic poems from the 6th to the 21st centuries illustrated by various artists.