Tìr Ìseal nan Òran – Sgrìobhadairean Òga / Tiree: low land of song – Young Writers
A booklet of original writings in Gaelic and English created as part of the Tìr Ìseal nan Òran project, February – July 2022, in Tiree.
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Dates: 2020s
2025.2.1
A copy of Autocar Magazine. Christmas Special, December 2024.
Contains a feature by writer Richard Webber who retraces the steps of Scottish explorer, Isobel Wylie Hutchison, who had brought probably the first Christmas tree to Tiree in 1924, to the chapel in Ruaig, now a family home known as “the Wee Church”.
Richard drove from Carlowrie Castle to Tiree in an Ariel Nomad 2, collecting a Christmas tree from Mull en route.
A condensed version of the feature is online, here
2024.21.1
Hardback book, “The Making of MacBrayne – A Scottish Transport Monopoly Spanning Three Centuries” by Andrew Clark
Donated by John D Watson
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2024.6.2
Photograph of Chrissie Murray 1924-2023, from Point, Lewis who came to work at Tiree NAAFI
2023.14.4
A notebook of competition results, two photo albums and a scrap book relating to the Tiree SWI handicraft competitions, dinners and excursions during 2010-2021.
2023.17.1
Collection of items washed up on Tiree’s beaches for a mini exhibition titled ‘The Sea’s Harvest‘, held in An Iodhlann in 2022, including lids and labels from seafood companies in Norway and Ireland, fishbox packaging tape, plastic ice tea bottle from China, plastic fishing buoy from Spain, plastic Listerine bottle from Spain, plastic sea-sickness tablets container from Russia, wave-smoothed remnant of a Mortise-and-Tenon carpentry joint, plastic drinks cans holder.
2023.14.3
Six folders and notebooks of Minutes, newsletters, bank statements and accounts pertaining to the Tiree Scottish Women’s Institute. These date from c2010 to 2021, when the organisation ceased to operate in Tiree.
2023.14.2
Silver-plated quaich inscribed with words ‘Tiree SWRI’. There are no individual name inscriptions.
Jennie Niven, the donor, was the final organiser for the last 15 year’s of the SWI’s organisational history in Tiree.
2023.14.1
Pewter quaich inscribed with the names of former Tiree Scottish Women’s Institute members, from 2000 to 2005. the names inscribed are: Mrs W. MacFadyen (2000), Mrs A. MacDonald (2001), Mrs A. MacKinnon (2002), Mrs A MacIntyre (2003), Mrs A. MacKinnon (2004), Mrs M. MacIntyre (2005).
Jennie Niven, the donor, was the final organiser for the last 15 year’s of the SWI’s organisational history in Tiree.