Black and white photograph of SS Mary Stewart in Iona Sound.
The Mary Stewart in the Sound of Iona. The captain, Donald MacLean of Scarinish (Dòmhnall Òg), is the middle figure in the stern.
2001.167.1
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Dates: 1910s
2001.170.2
The smack ‘Mary & Effie’ in Scarinish harbour
Photograph of the smack ‘Mary & Effie’ in Scarinish harbour in the early 20th century.
Courtesy of Mrs Marjorie Wilson
The ‘Mary and Effie’ was the last sailing vessel to bring cargoes to Tiree. She ceased trading around 1946. She was owned by Allan MacFadyen (Ailean Shandaidh), the grandson of Allan MacFadyen (1800-1891), who was a tenant of the Scarinish Hotel.
Allan MacFadyen the elder was the son of Janet Munn and John MacFadyen of Scarinish. In 1832 he married Amelia Stewart, daughter of Exciseman Alexander Stewart. The couple had seven sons and five daughters: John, Jessie, Catherine, Alexander, Malcolm, Amelia, James, Charles, Margaret, Donald, Hannah and another John.
Allan also owned a smack and in the 1840s carried stone from the quarry at Camas Tuath on the Ross of Mull, which was used in the building of Skerryvore Lighthouse.
Black and white photograph of of the smack `Mary & Effie` in Scarinish harbour.
The smack `Mary & Effie` owned by Allan MacFadyen of Lismore, the grandson of Allan MacFadyen (1800-1891) of Scarinish Inn.
2000.3.1
Book `An Tuil – Anthology of 20th century Scottish Gaelic verse` edited by Ronald Black.
An anthology of over 350 bilingual poems by 100 Gaelic poets of the century, including Domhnall Ruadh Choruna, Donald Macintyre, Sorley MacLean, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith and Donald John MacDonald. Includes extensive biographies.
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Original and photocopied report `Tiriodh agus Colla: A social and economic geolinguistic study` by Clive James, Caernarvon, Wales in 1991.
The numbers of Gaelic speakers in the Hebridean islands in Argyll from 1891 to 1981 focussing on Tiree and Coll and the relationship between economic strength and cultural and linguistic survival.
1997.89.2
Photocopied Tiree School Board document c. 1919-20
List of schools and teachers, their sex, date of birth, qualifications, post held, date of appointment, salary and tenure, terms and conditions.
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Photograph of Mary Flora MacKinnon, Archibald Campbell and John Kennedy, c. 1915.
Taken outside the thatched house in Balephuil where Mary Flora and her husband Donald MacKinnon lived with Mary Flora`s father Archibald Campbell, c. 1915. L-R: John Kennedy (known as `Clever`), a neighbour, Mary Flora MacKinnon, the mother of the two children and Archibald Campbell. Both men were blind. `Clever` travelled around the world in sailing ships and had the second sight. Donald and Mary Flora emigrated to New Zealand in 1927.
2002.28.5
Photograph of Margaret Sinclair, Balephuil, c. 1900.
Margaret Sinclair, Balephuil, composer of Tiree songs. She married a Mr Vaughan and went to live in Ireland. Her brother Alasdair wrote `Am falbh thu leam, a ribhinn og`.
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Photocopied page from `An Tirisdeach` about Alastair MacDonald, Caoles.
Article about Alastair MacDonald, Caoles, who emigrated to Canada in 1912.
1997.78.3
Photocopy of two newspaper articles about Alastair MacDonald, Caoles.
Career history of Alastair MacDonald who practised law for over 65 years in Ottawa, Canada.
1997.77.1
Small paperback book `Laoidhean Shioin` produced by Gilleasbuig Farcharson, 1924.
Thirty-five Gaelic hymns composed by Rev. Archibald Farquharson during his time on Tiree around 1869. Owned by James MacArthur and Alasdair MacArthur, Heylipol, whose names are handwritten on the cover and inside.