Dates: 2000s

2004.71.1

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 320, 29/5/2004.

Local news and events including the American volunteers re-roofing the Baptist manse, the death by drowning of Anthony Pearce from Caoles, letter from Councillor Ian Gillies, the clean-up of Gott Bay and news from the Tiree Seedcorn Fund, the school, the youth club, the feis and Tiree Community Business.

2004.68.1

Audio cassette recording of Janet MacIntosh of Scarinish talking to Maggie Campbell on 21/5/2004.

Janet MacIntosh of Urvaig talks to Maggie Campbell in May 2004 about her schooldays in Balemartine, her childhood and wartime memories, Sunday customs, her travels round Scotland as a pilgrim, women’s clothing and work, baptisms in Tiree, the 19th century Baptist revival on the Ross of Mull, the Community Council, differences between the east and west of Tiree, self education, second sight and ghost stories, Tiree Bards, the hardness of life in the past with poverty, disease and the death of children; Janet finishes by singing a hymn composed by Neil MacDonald of Kilmoluaig

2004.65.1

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 319, 15/5/2004.

Local news and events including the visit of the P.S. Waverley, a letter from Derek Wolstencroft, an update from the hall, a feasibility study about a Tiree Gathering on Tiree in 2006, an update from the Tiree Development Partnership and news from the school.

2004.64.1

Report `Tiree Socio-Economic Assessment` by the Scottish Agricultural College, February 2004.

Report by the Scottish Agicultural College and commissioned by Tiree Development Partnership which provides baseline data to highlight key features of Tiree`s social and economic structure, recent trends and future implications using SWOT analysis ( Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats).

2004.61.1

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 318, 1/5/2004.

Local news and events including the visit of the Waverley paddle steamer, the retirement of Morag MacLean from Taigh a` Rudha, letter from Councillor Iain Gillies, update from the Tiree Development Partnership, the Milton Fishermen`s Fund and news from the RSPB, the school and the WRI.