Scottish Exodus, Travels Among a Worldwide Clan by James Hunter (director of Centre for History, UHI) Softback book
Donated by Prof. Amy Kaler, University of Alberta
2024.5.1
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2024.3.1
Softback book “The McArthur – Burleigh Family History” by Megan Smiles, Australia, 2023.
The author descends from Hector McArthur b 1808 Heylipol, Tiree, emigrated to Australia 1838, brother of James MacArthur 1812-1891
Researches family history from McArthur of Tiree and Scotland more widely – Doyle, McDonald and Best. Also Burleigh / Burley of Cavan and Fermanagh on the border of today’s Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Donated by the author via our genealogist Flo Straker.
2022.29.11
Leather-bound edition of The Bible, with parallel and illustrative passages. Inside leaf is inscribed, ‘D MacDonald, Kenovay, 1887’ and ‘Ishbel MacD’; pre-title page inscribed, ‘Ishbel MacDonald, Kenovay’.
Items belonged to the familes MacDonald, MacCorguadale and Maclean of Kenovay.
2020.6.2
Hard-backed edition of Fishing Boats and Fisher Folk on the East Coast of Scotland’, written and illustrated by Peter F. Anson. First edition, published in 1930.
294pp with colour plates and black and white line drawings.
A local history of fishing ports, boats and fisher folk on the East Coast of Scotland, with mention of Oban, Tiree and Barra.
See 2020.6.1 for scanned copy of page relevant to Tiree.
2023.8.1
Hardbacked edition of ‘A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World’, by Erika Rappaport. Published in 2017 by Princeton University Press. 409pp with black and white photographs.
‘A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in-depth historical look at how men and women – through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa – transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. […] An expansive and orginal global history of imperial tea, A Thirst for Empire demonstrates the ways that this fluid and powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world.’
2022.29.10
Compact, leather-covered, Gaelic ‘Biobull / Bible’, produced by Comunn-Bhiobull Duthchail na h-Alba. On the inside front cover is written ‘Cornaig Sunday School. For Mary Ishbel MacDonald [Kenovay], with every good wish for the future, J Gillies, 28/8/46. John Gillies was the Church of Scotland Missionary on Tiree for 17 years (1937-1954), teaching Sunday School in Gaelic and English.
2022.29.9
Hardback book ‘The Scottish Anthem Book’, 1922, revised from the original ‘Book of Anthems’, which was published in 1875 as and aid to singing hymns and psalms in the Church of Scotland. Belonging to Effie MacDonald (nee MacCorquodale), Kenovay, it is signed ‘Euphemia Cameron MacCorquodale, No. 8’.
2022.29.8
Hardback book ‘Aids to Anatomy and Physiology – a complete textbook for the nurse’, 1948, belonging to Ishbel MacDonald of the MacDonald/MacCorquodale/MacLean family of Kenovay. Like many others from Tiree, Ishbel became a nurse at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow.
2022.29.7
Book ‘The Hebrides at War’ by Mike Hughes, 1998. An illustrated account of the men and women who served and lived in Oban and the Hebrides during World War II. From the belongings of the MacDonald/MacCorquodale/MacLean family of Kenovay.
2022.29.6
Booklet ‘Domhnall Dearg’, a translation into Gaelic of the play ‘The Five Year Plan’ by Kenneth Stewart, produced by An Comunn Gaidhealach in 1950. From the belongings of the MacDonald/MacCorquodale/MacLean family of Kenovay.