Magazine booklet `Gairm`no. 15, 1956
Booklet of news from the Gaelic-speaking world, including and article on Tiree (pg 270-275). Includes photographs of the mill at Cornaigmore, calves on a beach, Calum MacLean (Calum Salum) and his mother Kirsty Munn (Ciorstaidh Mhunn), Salum, and one of a boat at the Scarinish regatta containing Donald Archie Cameron.
Newspaper articles and letters regarding the conditions faced by emmigrants to Canada in the 1840s
Four newspaper articles and letters from the Inverness Advertiser in November 1849, describing the awful and tragic conditions faced by many emigrants from Tiree, Mull, Uist and Lochalsh, after landing in Canada. Lack of shelter, cholera and starvation resulted in hundreds of deaths.
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Newspaper article about author Andrew McCall Smith buying islands off Coll in 2013
Scanned and emailed newspaper article reporting that best-selling author Andrew McCall Smith (No. 1 Ladies` Detective Agency) has bought the Cairns of Coll, a cluster of small uninhabited islands off the north end of Coll.
Newspaper notices of deaths, marriages and anniversaries in Australia 1887-1947
Printed transcripts of newspaper notices & obituaries regarding the deaths, marriages and anniversaries of Tiree Australians appearing in various Australian newspapers during 1887-1947. Includes: Jessie Hughes (1836-1886) and Jane Campbell (1828-1891) daughters of Archibald and Mary Campbell, Tiree; Captain Archibald MacLean (1821-1901); Donald Brown (1868-1947); Catherine MacKinnon, Tiree (d.1947); Dr Charles Nicol Macquarie (1861-1937); Niel Campbell (1832-1912); marriage of David MacKinnon to Euphemia MacKechnie, daughter of Donald MacKechnie, Heynish (1921); silver wedding anniversay of Dugald Colquhoun of Tiree and Eliza MacFadyen (1933).
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Newspaper article about the transfer of livestock between Tiree and ferry in 1886
Printed scan of an article from The Glasgow Herald dated 1886, about the dangerous method of transferring livestock, particularly horses, between Tiree and the ferry SS Hebridean. Article also mentions four of the imprisoned crofters of the Land Agitation liberated on bail.
`Contact` Magazine of the Strathclyde Regional Council Education Department 1979/80
New paper-bound newsletter for disseminating information about the education service amongst and between schools in Strathclyde. Produced by the Education Department in 1980.
Newspaper obituary about Kenneth Stewart, the last laird of Coll, 2012
Original and photocopy of an obituary from The Herald newspaper for Kenneth Stewart (1924-2012), farmer and the last laird of Coll.
Various articles relating to Tiree from Australian and New Zealand newspapers 1875-1936
Newspaper articles about Tiree and Tiree people from various Australian and New Zealand newspapers. Includes `Aeroplanes Banned` by the Duke of Argyll 1936; marriage of Mary Brown, Tiree, to Thomas Lindsay of Maruimato, NZ, 1896; marriage of Flora MacIntyre, Tiree, to George Theyers of Maori Creek, NZ, 1875; death of Neil Campbell (1833-1912) of Tiree and Parramatta, Australia, 1912; diamond wedding anniversary of Donald Kennedy, Tiree, and Alice Hardman, York, 1818; `Another Island for Sale` 1911; `In the Western Highlands`, 1894.
Information about Australian Flight Officer Thomas Stephens who died in an air collision on Tiree in 1944.
Notices from Australian newspaper `The Argus` in September 1944, about the death of FO. Thomas Stephens who was killed in the mid-air collision between to Halifax aircraft over Tiree in 1944; information about Stephens from the Commonwealth War Graves website; photocopy of a notice in `Vetaffairs` 2012 seeking relatives and friends of Thomas Stephens and the crew of HMS Sturdy.
Newspaper page with mention of Dr Angus MacNiven and Donald Meek, 2012
Page from The Scotsman newspaper in 2012 mentioning Dr Angus MacNiven in an article about a planned film about RD Laing (eminent British psychiatrist). Dr MacNiven had connections with the farm occupied by “Bell Bheag” today. On the reverse is a letter to the editor by Prof. Donald Meek, Caolas, criticising the proposed Teaching Quality Assesment (TQA). Includes photocopies of both articles.
