Softback book ‘Tiree Kirk Session Minutes, Vol. 1, 1775-1806’ by Archie Henderson, Glasgow, 2015. First volume of published transcriptions of the original minutes of the Tiree Kirk Session. Signed by the author.
2015.56.1
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2015.49.1
Hardback book ‘The Great Book of Skye’ by Norman MacDonald and Cailean MacLean, 2014. An extensive study of the people of Skye spanning 200 years. Includes a few Tiree people who moved to Skye. See 2017.17.1 for the second volume of this work.
2015.46.2
Two small identical cards collected from Brooke Bond tea packets in the late 1960’s, showing an illustration of the tea clipper ‘Taeping’ on one side and with information on the other. The Taeping was captained by Donald MacKinnon, Heanish, during the Great China Tea Race of 1866.
1999.207.7
VHS video ‘Sith is Sonas’ (peace and contentment), 1999
2015.41.3
Large hardback book ‘Leabhar na Feinne’, 1872. Published collection of heroic Gaelic ballads from the period 1512-1871, presented to Cornaigmore School by James Coates, Paisley, in 1905. James Coates donated many books to Tiree, including The Reading Room’s library (now An Iodhlann). From a collection from Mannal House.
2015.35.1
Hardback book ‘From Clan to Regiment – six hundred years in the Hebrides 1400-2000’ by Nicholas MacLean-Bristol, 2007. A history of the MacLeans of Coll by one of their descendents. Signed by the author to Gordon Scott, Tiree, 2012.
2015.33.2
Photocopies of a newspaper obituary and marriage certificate for William Agnew (1862-1931) who may have been the Headmaster at Cornaig School during 1915-1922. A widower, he married his housekeeper Catherine MacDonald on the mainland in 1919 while living at the School House, Cornaigmore. Letter from his grandson John Agnew to Dr Holliday, 2015, with additional information.
2015.32.1
Book ‘The Lighthouse on Skerryvore’ by Paul A Lynn, 2015. A comprehensive account of the engineering of the lighthouse, plus the personal background and complex personality of Alan Stevenson, its designer and builder.
2015.31.1
Academic paper on ‘A West Highland census of 1779: social and economic trends on the Argyll Estate’, by Eric Cregeen, published in the journal Northern Scotland 5, 2014.
2015.30.4
Book ‘The Viking World’ by James Graham-Campbell, 2013. Authoritative update on a previous edition of the same title, based on recent archaeological research, with a new chapter on ships, shipwrights and seamen.