Dates: 2020s

2025.21.1

paperback book: The Irish in World Methodism 1900-2000 by Norman W. Taggart

gifted by the author’s daughter. Norman Taggart spent time in Tiree with the Church of Scotland while training for the Methodist Church in Ireland.

2025.20.1

Hardback book, Sehnsucht nach Tiree by Constanze Wilken, 2022

A novel in German about moving to Tiree

2025.3.1

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.

 

 

 

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

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.