Manuscript (booklet) for a gaelic play “Airgiod Suisaidh” by Mary A MacKinnon, performed in 1930
Manuscript (booklet) for a gaelic play “Airgiod Siusaidh” by Mary A MacKinnon (Mrs Alasdair Campbell) of Heylipol, performed in 1930.
Manuscript (booklet) for a play ‘Beitidh’ by Mary A MacKinnon (1888-1980), Heylipol, ca 1916. Written in aid of the Tiree Memorial Fund.
Màiri Anna Theònaidh was the daughter of John MacKinnon, the ground officer. At thirteen, Mary Ann moved from the estate house in Heylipol to Glasgow, where she trained as a teacher. In 1924, she married Captain Alasdair Campbell, who had the misfortune to be torpedoed three times in his naval career. Mary Ann Campbell (or MacKinnon) was the first published female Gaelic playwright. The first of three published dramas was the 1916 Beitidh / Betty:
“[Campbell’s] eponymous Beitidh ends up winning a doctor in Glasgow who is also a Gaelic-speaker. This is a rather neat solution that serves also to teach Beitidh not to be ashamed of her Gaelic (a reprise of the ‘don’t forget your Gaelic’ trope). This is the main theme of the play which is bilingual: the action is in Gaelic when set in Tiree and in English when in a Kelvinside drawing room. The women in the play are strikingly independent and full of character. Beitidh’s mother is quite happy to state that the men would be nothing without their women. Her English-speaking friend Rosie is very quick-witted and likes to shock, principally by smoking.”
The Stornoway Gazette praised the play, concluding: “It is probably impossible to-day to show any series of events of Highland life significant enough to dramatise apart from English influence.” As if in response to this, her next play Clann nan Gàidheal ri Guailibh a Chèile ‘Children of the Gaels, Shoulder to Shoulder’, was set against the backdrop of the Great War. Mary Ann Campbell was an early member of the Tiree Association in Glasgow, and produced the First World War Roll of Honour for the island. She retired to ‘Caladh’ in Balevullin.
See article: Ross S Identity in Gaelic Drama 1900-1949, Glasgow University https://ijosts.ubiquitypress.com/articles/216/galley/425/download
Manuscript (booklet) of a play “Ri Guaillibh a` Cheile” (Shoulder to Shoulder) by Mary A MacKinnon ca. 1930.
Manuscript (booklet) of a play “Ri Guaillibh a` Cheile” (Shoulder to Shoulder) in gaelic by Mary A MacKinnon (Mrs A Campbell).
Original photocopy of map relating to enlargement of croft in Kenovay off Tom Barr`s farm in 1903.
Original photocopy of map relating to enlargement of Campbell`s croft in Kenovay off Tom barr`s farm. See 2009.21.2 for newer photocopy.
Roll of Honour 1939-1945
Document listing the names, ranks, military force and postings, of people of Tiree that died serving their country during World War II. Includes 5-page addendum and foreward by the Duke of Argyll (see 2020.1.80)
Photograph of Johnnie MacInnes, Kirkapol, and three others from Vaul, ca. 1930.
Black & white photograph of Johnnie `the Lodge` MacInnes (uncle of Donald MacIntyre, Gott) who lived with Rosie MacIntyre. The three others in the photo are from `The Haven`, Vaul.
Aerial hotograph of the MacKinnon homestead, Canada.
Black & white aerial photograph of the MacKinnon homestead in Canada around 1960. John MacKinnon, Kirkapol, farmed here before coming home to Tiree in the 1930s.
Photograph of Angela MacRae in Balinoe, ca. 1950.
Black & white photograph of Angela MacRae sitting on a chair on the machair at Balinoe around 1950. Angela`s father was an electrician who helped lay out the electricity cables around the east end of Tiree.
Five photographs of Alec MacPhail, cousin of Neil MacPhail, Kirkapol, 1930-1950
Collection of five photographs linked to Alec MacPhail, Canada: (1) Unknown Lady (linked to Alec MacPhail) taken at Clear Lake in July 1934. The back of the photograph reads; `Taken at Clear Lake, July 1934.`, (2) Alec MacPhail and his cousin Margartet McPhail which was taken in Hamilton Ont when East in June 1947. The back of the photograph reads; `Margaret McOhail and I (a cousin) taken in, taken in Hamilton Ont when I was East in June 1947.`, (3) Snow fall taken from the South East in February 1943. The back of the photograph reads ` Taken from the South East, Feb 1943.`, (4) Photograph taken in January 1942 of Alec MacPhail and Dodge in the snow along with a cat and a dog. The back of the photo reads; `Jan. 1942, myself and Dodge can get ast fall so the cat on top also Wallie the dog taken at the side of the house.`, (5) taken from the bee keeping area in June 1942. The back of the photograph reads; `Where I keep the bees in front of the house Natric Marion, a Miss Turner and the hired girl in the corner. All well, how is John. Taken June 1942.`
Biography of Donald Ewen MacDonald (1925-2002) of Heanish by his son Dr John MacDonald.
Biography with photograph of Donald (Jock) Ewen MacDonald (1925-2002) of Heanish by his son Dr John MacDonald. He was a sailor in the Merchant Navy and eventually settled in Australia where he married, raised a family and worked for over twenty years with ICI.
