DVD compilation of sections of old films about Tiree, made in 2016 from videos held in An Iodhlann amongst others. Includes footage of: ferries, the Mary Stewart, Scarinish harbour, Scarinish Hotel, the ringing stone, Nester and Gavin Carter’s bakery and bread making, school bus driven by butcher Donald MacLean, The Reef, livestock health, Balephetrish, Mannal, Balemartine, Baugh, Tiree High School, children singing a traditional Gaelic hunting song, accordion music and several accordionists, Gaelic songs sung by locals at a ceilidh, thatched houses and thatching with Hector Brown, Alexander MacNeill’s opinions on thatched houses (1985), Am Bail Ur in Balephuil, Iain MacKinnon talking in Gaelic and English in his house at Kilmoluaig, Hynish harbour and buildings, harvesting and stooks, Cornaig mill, livestock sales, airport, bands, Balevullin, An Iodhlann, Tiree Music Festival, Travee, aerial view of a seal swimming, bicycles, schoolyard games, sheep shearing, Gott Bay pier, cattle, pipe music, shops, ships, Vaul, timelapse film of the sky as the sun sets and rises, young Eilidh Campbell and her brother talk in Gaelic about life on Tiree. Other people include: Ann Carter, Douglas Carter, Sinclair Carter, Olwen Carter, Monica Smith (nee Davis), Neil MacPhail, Angus MacPhail, Mairi Campbell, Bernard Smith, Iain MacDonald, Iain Brown, Iain MacLean, Myra Brown, Hector Campbell, Alex MacArthur, Gordon Connell.
Dates: 2010s
2017.25.2
CD ‘Eabhal‘ of music by young traditional band including Jamie MacDonald, Ruaig, 2016. Tune titles include: Simon’s; Garrett Barry’s; Aoidh na Dean Cadal; The Golden Stud.
2017.16.1
Draft report about the potential impacts of a large windfarm off the coast of Tiree, 2012. Prepared by Ironside Farrar Consultants on behalf of the Tiree Onshore Scenario Mapping Steering Group.
2017.17.3
CD of pipe music by Donald Campbell, Cornaigbeg (1954-2016). A collection of bagpipe music performed by Donald Lachlan Cameron Campbell in memory of the man.
2016.62.1
Colour photograph of an old threshing machine made by R.G. Garvie & Sons, Engineers, Aberdeen in the 1920s or 1930s, belonging to Hugh Archie MacCallum, Whitehouse. The machine measured around 2 metre tall x 2 metre long x 1 metre wide, and was used to separate the edible part of the grain from the chaff. Photographed in 2016.
2016.56.6
2016.56.5
2016.56.1
Collection of 14 colour photo-prints of various scenes from Tiree from 1960 to 2010, including an passenger aircraft at Tiree airport, a double-decker bus at the pier, out-buildings at Coales, an old well, Kilkenneth chapel and Kirkapol farmland. Five of the images are accessioned separately (see 2016.56.2 – 6).
2016.48.2
2016.10.1
DVD of BBC Alba TV programme Cairdeas Cogaidh featuring Lachie MacKinnon, Parkhouse, Balephetrish, being interviewed by Donald Meek, Caoles, in Lachie’s house on 13th February 2014. In Gaelic without subtitles.













