The Cleit Cup – Tiree Regatta Club
Silver prize cup. Inscribed “The Cleit Cup – Isle of Tiree Regatta Club”. Names of prize winners from 1982 to 2000 inscribed on reverse. Two handles.
2009.14.1
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Dates: 1990s
2009.14.2
The Duncan MacPhee Memorial Cup, Tiree Regata Club
Silver prize cup. Inscription “The Duncan MacPhee Memorial Cup presented to Tiree Regatta Club 1999”. Inscribed with prize winners` names from 2001 to 2003 (all D. Hepburn) on reverse.
2009.13.1
Folder of cuttings regarding HMS Tiree
Various newspaper cuttings and other documentarion regarding HMS Tiree and the visit of the Royal Naval Association, bringing the ship`s bell to Tiree in May 1995.
2009.13.2
Photographs of the visit of the Royal Naval Association bring the bell of HMS Tiree to Tiree
26 colour photographs of the visit of the Royal Naval Associations visit to Tiree when they donated the bell of the HMS Tiree to the island in May 1995.
2009.8.2
Newspaper article “Bell`s last journey has a familiar ring about it”
Newspaper article about the ship`s bell from HMS Tiree being given to the Isle of Tiree by members of the Royal Naval Association during a visit to the island in May 1995. Photograph of Allan Snowden holding the bell inscribed “HMS Tiree 1941”, plus Lt Cdr Fred Stickland and Lt Peter Duck looking on.
2009.8.3
Newspaper article “Historic bell tolls on Isle of Tiree”
Newspaper article about the ships bell from HMS Tiree being donated to the Isle of Tiree by members of the Royal Naval Association during a visit to the island in May 1995. Photograph of 10 members of the RNA arriving at Heylipol Church with the bell.
2008.86.1
Collection of correspondence in relation to An Iodhlann
Large collection of letters and faxes between Dr. John Holliday and others including Ann Donaldson, Prof. Donald Meek, Patrick Lormimer, Mary Norton Scherbatskoy, Hugh MacLean, Margaret A. MacKay (School of Scottish Studies), Dr. J. Morton Boyd and Micheal Stanfield of the Hebridean Trust. The material contains information about the setting up of An Iodhlann.
2008.75.1
Original Copy of `Bulb Growing in the Western Isles` by R.B.C Nisbet,B.Sc
Eight page extract from book, section by R.B.C Nisbet about `Bulb Growing in the Western Isles`
2008.63.1
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.
2008.53.1
Black and white photograph of lawyer Alasdair MacDonald.
Alasdair MacDonald, from Tiree, was the oldest practicing lawyer in Ottawa when he died in 1994 aged ninety-three, having been a regular attendee at the Elgin Street offices of MacDonald Affleck until just nine months before he passed away. He came to Ottawa from Tiree during the First World War and was a prominent lawyer in the city for sixty-five years. He was a fluent Gaelic speaker who helped found the Chair of Celtic Studies at Ottawa University.
