Travel guide `Scottish Island Hopping` by Gemima Tindall, 1981
Soft back book about travelling around the Scottish islands. See pages 199-205 for Coll and Tiree.
De-accessioned 1.3.2026.
2012.77.1
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2012.77.2
Book ` The Islands of Scotland` by Hugh MacDiarmid, 1939
Hardback book about the Scottish islands. Tiree is mentioned in name only on page 128.
De-accessioned 1.3.2026.
2012.74.3
Booklet of Gaelic Poetry “Cascheum nam Bard”
Small booklet of 40 selected Gaelic poems edited by Lachlan MacKinnon. Yellow/orange card cover.
2012.65.3
Book “Materials and Traditions in Scottish Buildings”, 1992
Softback book about building traditions in Scotland. Includes section on Tiree`s thatched houses with photographs (pp 81-94).
2012.65.4
Book “Traditions of Sea-bird Fowling in the North Atlantic Region”, 2004
Softback book about the ongoing tradition of harvesting young sea-birds from their rocky/island nests in the north Atlantic for food. Includes information about guga hunting on Lewis (guga`s being young gannets).
2012.64.1
Book “Postbus Country” by Joan Burnie 1994
Hardback book about the rural communities of Scotland and the history of the Royal Mail-operated Postbus that served them since 1968. Signed on the inside front cover “To Flora & Lachie (MacLean, Druimfraoich), with love and all good wishes for 29th June and 14th July 1995. From Mary and Tom”
2012.29.1
Book “Sgeulachdan Gaidhealach” 1862
Hardback book of orally collected tales of the West Highlands in Gaelic and English. Published in 1862. Ornated green cover decorated with gold-embossed celtic knot-work.
2012.29.2
Book “Leabhraichean Sgoile Gaidhlig”
Hardback book of short stories in Gaelic used for reading practice by pupils at Cornaigmore Higher Grade School, which was established in 1936.
2012.29.3
Book “An English-Gaelic Dictionary of Expressions” 1985
Hardback dictionary of Gaelic expressions, idioms and phrases.
2012.29.4
Booklet “An T-Aiseag an Iar” by Donald Meek 1977
Booklet about the history of the ferries of the Western Isles by Prof. Donald Eachann Meek, Caoles. In Gaelic (with some passages in English).