Yesterday’s News No. 5 – WW1 Recruitment
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
2024.9.5
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2024.9.4
Yesterday’s News No. 4 – Comforts for WW1 Soldiers
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
2024.9.3
Yesterday’s News No. 3 – Egg Production in Tiree
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
2024.9.2
Yesterday’s News No. 2 – Cornaig Church
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
2024.9.1
Yesterday’s News No. 1 – Spies
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
2024.7.3
Biography of Angus McInnes, Kilmoluaig, supplied with the collection by his grandson, Angus McInnes.
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2022.29.12
Hardback edition of A Pronouncing Gaelic-English Dictionary by celebrated lexiographer, Neil MacAlpine, of Islay.
Inside cover board inscribed, ‘A.R. MacDonald, Cornaigbeg, Tiree. Personal Property’.
Gaelic to English and English to Gaelic, with phonetic key.
Re-printed from 1845 first pressing several times.
549pp.
2022.17.2
Black & white photoprint of a scanned postcard of a horse and cart on the beach at Gott Bay in around 1920. Titled ‘”Silversands” Tiree’.
2022.11.1
Typed field notes on the Gaelic names and uses of various kinds of seaweed and shellfish, including carragheen, gruaigean, slabhach(d)an, duileasg, duireaman, dulaman, carragan, a’charrag dhubh, sgeamagan, sgeanagan, faochag, maorach, muirsgian, slabhraidh. Includes a barely legible page of handwritten notes.
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Recounted by Tiree people including Jean MacPhail, Donald an tailleir, Annie Kennedy, Willie MacLean, Mary Ann MacDonald, Mabel Kennedy, Mabel MacArthur, David MacClounnan, Alasdair Brown, Jesse Lachainn, Eilidh bheag, Mairi Neill Bhain (Brown), Flora MacDonald, Hugh MacLean, Sandy Ghobhainn, Effie Macdonald, Mary Parkhouse, Donald MacIntyre, Rosie MacIntyre, Mary Straker and James MacLeod, in around 1990.
2021.53.90
Digitised copy of Newspaper cuttings on the Tiree riots, 1886. Contains cuttings from The Daily Mail, The Morning Post, The Scotsman, The Glasgow Herald, The Daily News, The Oban Times, and The Standard reporting on the riots of 1886. There is no transcript for this item.
Click to view a record for this item on Inveraray’s online catalogue.
From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.