Booklet in Gaelic of sermons by An t-Urramach Donull MacCalum / Rev. Donald MacCallum minister at Sgire-nan-Loch, Isle of Lewis, around 1890. It is likely that the booklet once had a heavy cover. Chapters are titled: Do Mhurchadh MacLeoid an-t-Eildier, with a photograph; Am beannachadh; An tur laidir; Dol dhachaidh with a photograph of Rev. Calum MacCalum; Fear-ar-graidh, with a photograph of Rev Donald MacCallum giving a sermon in church; An Daingneach, ard, with a photograph of An t-Urramach Donall MacCalum himself. 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.
Untitled, nine-verse poem in English, hand-written in ink on a scrap of black-edged funeral paper. Probably to be read out at a funeral in the early 1900s. Amongst the belongings of the MacDonald/Campbell/Brown family of Mannal House.
Printed memoir of a childhood spent on Tiree during WWII by Barry Kerr, 2015. Barry’s father, George (Jock) Kerr, was posted on the island as an RAF Signals and Telegraph Officer. Barry recalls the ‘black house’ he lived in at Balephetrish, the coal puffers, Cornaig school and prisoners of war.
Printed email from Archie Johnstone in response to an article about second sight on Tiree, 2015.
Extract: “My father’s mother was a great believer of 2nd sight. In 1916, he awoke and said to his mother that her brother Ian [John] was dead. She immediately went into mourning. Eight weeks later it was confirmed that he had been killed in action. The family home was no. 6 in Upper Vaul. Father was born in 1899 … His mother was Mary Flora Mackinnon and she married Thomas Johnstone and lived in Chapelhall. They had 4 children: Catherine Tommy Archie and Maxwell.”
Two pages of transcribed verses, handwritten in 1918-1919 by GBR, John Gillies, Cornaigbeg, and “an old friend”. Found in Donald Brown’s house at Vaul.
Three handwritten Gaelic songs/poems by Rev Hector Cameron, Cornaigmore, around 1920. The first lin/title of each is (1) Air faillirinn o, ‘sna ho orinn o (title – Fear a’ bhata?), (2) Nach aithne shuit fhein?, (3) title – Naire graibh.
Handwritten letter from Rev. Hector Cameron, Cornaigmore, to his daughter Edith around 1920 about his translation into English of a Gaelic song beginning ‘Fair my dear, my Highland laddie’, which he wrote on the reverse of the sheet. Includes some other news.
Collection of nine booklets of plays and dialogues in Gaelic and English, performed by the Tiree drama group in the 1960s. Titles include (1) An Reitheachail Rathail – mock trial by sherriff and jury, (2) Cobhair às na Speuran, (3) Dealbh-chluichean Gaidhlig – Gaelic Plays, (4) Na h-Uibhean Priseil, (5) Ri Guaillibh a’ Chèile – Shoulder to Shoulder, (6) Beitidh, (7) Reiteach Moraig, (8) Na Fasain Ura, (9) Comhraidhean Gaidhlig – Gaelic Dialogues.
