Yesterday’s News No. 6 – Roads (part 1)
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
For continued article on Roads see 2024.9.7
2024.9.6
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2024.9.5
Yesterday’s News No. 5 – WW1 Recruitment
From a collection of historical accounts by Dr John Holliday
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.
All related articles are searchable under 2024.7
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.