Booklet `Tiree Tales` edited by Fiona MacKinnon.
Twenty-five stories about Tiree in English and Gaelic.
1997.50.1
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1997.49.1
Petition from Poor Persons in Tyree for Aid to Emigrate
Transcription of a petition for assistance to emigrate appended to ‘Crofts and Farms in the Hebrides’ by the 8th Duke of Argyll.
This petition was sent in 1851 to Sir John MacNeill, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors for the Relief of the Poor in Scotland. Sir John was married to a daughter of the 8th Duke of Argyll, who appended the petition to his ‘Crofts and Farms in Hebrides’ addressed to the Napier Commission of 1883.
A hundred and thirty-six islanders signed the petition. Ninety-nine of them were landless cottars; the remainder were small tenants, of whom only four paid rent over £10 a year. They represented the class of islanders that the Duke was anxious to clear from his estate.
Around a third of the petitioners were given assistance to emigrate with their families on board the ‘Conrad’, ‘Birman’ and ‘Onyx’ in July 1851. Another twenty-seven families from the island left with them.
1997.48.1
Photocopy of book `Argyll Estates Instructions` 1771-1805 edited by Eric Cregeen.
The instructions given by John, the 5th Duke of Argyll to his Chamberlain in Mull and Morvern and his Chamberlain in Tiree with an introduction by Eric Cregeen.
Available to read online here: National Library of Scotland
2001.195.1
Book `MacLean Manuscripts in Nova Scotia` by Colm O Baoill
A catalogue of the Gaelic verse collections MG15G/2/1 and MG15G/2/2 in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia.
2001.195.2
Book `Single-Handed – General practitioners in Remote and Rural Areas` by Rosie Donovan & John Bain
Textual na dphotographic record of single-handed GPs who serve small and isloated communities in the Highlands and Islands and other remote areas of Scotland.
1997.21.1
Booklet `Tiree Bards and their Bardachd` by Eric Cregeen and Donald W. MacKenzie.
History and examples of bardachd from 1757 to 1978.
1997.22.1
Booklet `Hebridean Decade – Mull, Coll and Tiree, 1761-1771` by Nicholas MacLean Bristol.
History and description of the lairds of Mull, Coll and Tiree from 1761 to 1771.
1998.3.2
Book of mouth tunes collected, arranged and annotated by Dr Keith Norman MacDonald.
Collection of 120 songs to be sung unaccompanied.
1998.2.1
Photocopy of The Shorter Catechism by Rev. Roderick Lawson.
Catechism prepared for use in schools.
1997.2.1
Booklet and photocopy `Let`s See Barra and Tiree` by D. D. C. Pochin Mould and Allan C. MacDougall
General description of Barra and Tiree with black and white photographs.