Photocopied extracts from `Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition` by Rev John Gregorson Campbell.
Stories from or with references to Tiree collected by Rev John Gregorson Campbell.
1997.117.1
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1997.118.1
Photocopied extract `The Celtic Year` by Rev. John Gregorson Campbell from `Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands`.
The Celtic seasons and their associated customs.
1999.4.1
Photocopy of pamphlet `More Brass Tacks and a Fiddle` Volume 2 by A.V. Christie
Memories from 1891 to 1994 Odd and humerous incidents in the hardware shop, recollections of local and national events, comments on music, drama, etc
2000.10.26
Extract from John Knox’s Tour through the Highlands and the Hebrides in 1786
Transcription of an extract from ‘A Tour through the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebride Isles, in 1786’ by John Knox.
In 1786 the British Society for Extending the Fisheries sent John Knox to the north and west coasts of Scotland to prospect for new harbours and fishing grounds. During his visit to Tiree, he surveyed the coastline and concluded that Gott Bay was the most practicable place for a pier.
This was in line with the thinking of the Society’s Governor, the 5th Duke of Argyll, who over the previous fifteen years had encouraged settlement in a new fishing village at Scarinish by offering ‘a few years’ free possession of a house-room, two acres of arable and a cow’s grass.’
In 1793 the Duke again instructed the island’s Chamberlain to encourage his tenants to attend to the fishing. However, in a list of exports from Tiree in the following year there is still no mention of any fish being sent from the island.
The full publication is available to borrow from An Iodhlann: 2017.50.3
2000.10.27
Book extract `The Silver Darlings – John Knox of the British Fisheries Society` from `The Discovery of the Hebrides – Voyagers to the Western Isles 1745-1883` by Elizabeth Bray, pp 130-131, 143-146.
Knox`s survey of the Hebrides in 1786 for the British Fisheries Society. Biographical information about Knox, and descriptions from his tour.
2000.10.28.1
Biographical and artistic information about artists Mary Barnard and Duncan MacGregor Whyte of Oban and Balephuil.
Bound book extracts about Duncan MacGregor Whyte and his wife Mary Barnard from the `Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture` by Peter J.M. McEwan , pp 63, 605 and `The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition 1826-1990` edited by Charles Baile de Laperriere, p 420. Includes a list of works exhibited by Duncan MacGregor Whyte. DMcGW built The Studio at Balephuil and painted many scenes and portraits of Tiree.
2000.10.29
Bound extract from `The Dictionary of National Biography, vol III` edited by Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee, pp 764-825
Biographies of the Earls and Dukes of Argyll.
1997.88.1
Faxed extract from `Eyrbyggja Saga` (pp 129-35) translated by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards.
The story of Thorgunna, a Hebridean woman in her fifties, who travelled to Iceland and spent the rest of her life there.
1997.88.2
Faxed extract from `The Vinland Sagas` (p 84) translated by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson.
Incomplete chapter teeling how Lief Erikson fell in love with a Hebridean noblewoman called Thorgunna.
1997.94.1
Photocopied extract from `Orkneyinga Saga` edited by Joseph Anderson.
Preface (pp 1, 4-7), map of `Skotland`, Introduction: King Magnus ravages the Hebrides including Tiree in 1097 (pp34-35), Chapter 60: How Swein, Asleif`s son, came to stay with Holdbodi in Tiree (1page).