Softback book ‘Eilean Uaine Thiriodh / The Green Isle of Tiree’ by Margaret Bennett and Eric Rose, 2014. Signed “Presented to An Iodhalnn by Ethel MacCallum, May 2015”, it is a biography of Ethel MacCallum who, in 1942, was evacuated from an orphanage in Glasgow to the Island of Tiree. She became fluent in Gaelic and, with her natural gift for music and song, was encouraged to write her own compositions. The book includes some of her original work on a CD.
VHS video and DVD of Tiree Sports Day and first flight to Tiree in the 1930s.
Small hardback book ‘A Gaelic-Scots Vocabulary’, 1930, which belonged to Allan MacDougall, Headteacher at Cornaigmore School during the 1940s.
Small hardback book ‘Gnathasan Cainnte (Gaelic Idioms)’, 1932, which belonged to Allan MacDougall, Headteacher at Cornaigmore School in the 1940s.
Small hardback book in Gaelic ‘Am Measg nam Bodach’, 1938, which belonged to Allan MacDougall, Headteacher at Cornaigmore School in the 1940s.
Fabric covered book ‘Songs of Victory’, 1925. Hymn book belonging to Mary B MacDonald, Mannal House.
Small hardback book ‘Xenophon’s Anabasis’, 1892. Greek school text belonging to Donald MacDonald who probably had Mannal connections. Handwritten on the inside front cover is “Donald MacDonald, High School, Glasgow”. From a collection from Mannal House.
Black and white photograph of the other side of MacLean’s Cross in Soroby Cemetery, taken around the 1930s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
Black and white photograph of one side of MacLean’s Cross in Soroby Cemetery, taken around the 1930s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
Black and white postcard portrait photograph of Catherine Campbell, Mannal, with a couple and their five children outside a dressed-stone house around the 1930s. From a collection of photographs from Mannal House.
