Two hard-back volumes of the Autobiography and Memoirs of George Douglas, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900). Edited by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll with portraits and illustrations, 1906. Extracts regarding Tiree are transcribed by the donor – see 2016.33.2
The Self-Interpreting Bible, 1808, belonging to the Browns of Mannal House. Hand-written in ink on the front and back pieces are the names and dates of births, marriages and deaths of 20 members of the Henderson family, 1862 to 1944. Sarah Henderson married into the Brown family.
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Small hardback booklet of public addresses made by Rev. Donald MacCallum (1849-1929) of Waternish, Skye, dated 1884. The Reverend MacCallum was minister of Heylipol during 1887-1889. He was a key agitator during the Highland Clearances and a chief leader during Tiree’s Crofters’ War. A memorial cairn ‘Tùr Mhic Chaluim’ was erected by the people of Tiree at Kilkenneth-Moss.
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Book ‘Òrain an Eòrna – Songs of the Barley’, 2012. Collection of 20 of Tiree’s favourite traditional Gaelic songs from the island, with musical score, English translation and notes about each song. Includes titles: Am falbh thu leam, a Ribhinn Oig?; Lag nan Cruachan; Oran Mhanitoba; Air madainn Diardaoin thug mi cul ris a’ Chaolas; A Chaluim Bhig; Hi horo ‘s na horo eile; An tir isoal lurach; Fagail braigh Bhalla; Tir a’ mhurain; Tha mi fo smuairean air moch Diluain; Deoch-slainte nan cairdean a dh’fhag sinn air tir; Oganaich an oir-fhuilt bhuidhe; A’ chailin mhaiseach dhonn; ‘S e Tiriodh an t-Eilean as boidhche fon ghrein; O, seinnidh mi mo dhuanag; Mnathan a’ bhail’ againn; Pilot; Bidh mi nis a’ toiseachadh; Mo nighean donn a Cornaig; Thogainn fonn fun bhi trom.
Hardback book ‘The Great Book of Skye’ by Norman MacDonald and Cailean MacLean, 2014. An extensive study of the people of Skye spanning 200 years. Includes a few Tiree people who moved to Skye. See 2017.17.1 for the second volume of this work.
Softback book ‘Eilean Uaine Thiriodh / The Green Isle of Tiree’ by Margaret Bennett and Eric Rose, 2014. Signed “Presented to An Iodhalnn by Ethel MacCallum, May 2015”, it is a biography of Ethel MacCallum who, in 1942, was evacuated from an orphanage in Glasgow to the Island of Tiree. She became fluent in Gaelic and, with her natural gift for music and song, was encouraged to write her own compositions. The book includes some of her original work on a CD.
Small hardback book ‘A Gaelic-Scots Vocabulary’, 1930, which belonged to Allan MacDougall, Headteacher at Cornaigmore School during the 1940s.
Small hardback book ‘Gnathasan Cainnte (Gaelic Idioms)’, 1932, which belonged to Allan MacDougall, Headteacher at Cornaigmore School in the 1940s.
Small hardback book in Gaelic ‘Am Measg nam Bodach’, 1938, which belonged to Allan MacDougall, Headteacher at Cornaigmore School in the 1940s.
Large hardback book ‘Leabhar na Feinne’, 1872. Published collection of heroic Gaelic ballads from the period 1512-1871, presented to Cornaigmore School by James Coates, Paisley, in 1905. James Coates donated many books to Tiree, including The Reading Room’s library (now An Iodhlann). From a collection from Mannal House.
