Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 415, 26/04/08
Local news: launch of book `Wild Flowers of Coll & Tiree”; interview with Jessie Gray, Balemartine; United Auctions Trainee Auctioneer Niall MacKinnon, Hillcrest; plans for Argyll Airfields; promotion of healthy eating at schools; College of Piping tutor book translated into Gaelic; CalMac to continue to supply fuel to islands.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 414, 12/4/08
Local news: Youth Club prize-giving; interview with Tish MacKinnon, Kilmoluaig; Tales from the Stackyard – fatal boat wreck 1828; Feis Thiriodh 2008; RSPB information.
Saint Patrick`s Temple, Tiree recounted by Nan MacKinnon, Vatersay
Transcription and translation of a spoken account of Saint Patrick`s Temple on Tiree by Nan MacKinnon of Vatersay in Gaelic. Page 13 of Tocher magazine no. 59.
Letter in The Scots Magazine, Dec. 2009, from “Barrow Boy” Peter MacLeod (b. 1933) about his childhood on Tiree ca 1936.
Photocopy of a page from The Scots Magazine, Dec. 2009, showing a black & white photograph of a very young Peter MacLeod with his wooden wheel-barrow in Ruaig School playground ca 1935/36, and his letter to the magazine in 2009. The letter tells of the coal puffers beached at Gott Bay and collecting cow-pats in summer for fuel. Peter was the son of the Head Teacher at Ruaig School and was born on Tiree – he classed himself as a Tiree man and spoke Gaelic. He became the Manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Argyll Square, Oban. Now retired.
Newspaper photographs of Tiree Agricultural Show, July 1937
Photocopy of a newspaper cutting showing three photographs from the Tiree Agricultural Show in July 1937. Top photo shows line-up of horses and their handlers. The first two horses on the left, plus white dog, are with Mary MacKinnon`s father, ?? MacKinnon (Parkhouse). The middle photo is of Malcolm MacArthur and calf. Malcolm was the shepherd to Crossapol & Balephetrish common grazings from 1922 onwards. The bottom photo is a general shot of the show.
RBS “Sense” magazine including photo of Scarinish branch and harbour
Royal Bank of Scotland “Sense” magazine, August 2009, highlighting the Scarinish branch on the back cover with a colour photograph of the bank and Scarinish harbour.
Article in Oban Times 1911 about the annual business meeting of the Scarinish Library Committee
Copy of an article published in the Oban Times on 5th Aug 1911 about the annual business meeting of the Scarinish Library Committee held within the Reading Room of the library. Chaired by Mr Hugh MacDonald, postmaster, secretary and librarian. Also present: Mr MacDiarmid, factor, Rev. D. MacPherson and Mr Kenneth MacKenzie, Scarinish. Mentions death of Dr. Buchanan.
Hebridean Trust newsletter, Spring 2008
Hebridean Trust newsletter, Spring 2008. Articles and photographs about Treshnish Isle seabird survey, archaeological digs by Glasgow University on the Treshnish Isles, Raleigh International expedition to help clean Tiree`s beaches, artwork by J Morton Boyd, solar powered lights on the Treshnish Isles, Hynish Centre refurbishment, Hebridean Trust housing, Accommodation on Tiree. Photographs include Monica Smith and Janet Mackintosh
“Boards” magazine, October 2007.
“Boards” magazine, October 2007, with a full programme for the Tiree World Cup Wave Event, 2007, and articles about Tiree.
Original master copies of An Tirisdeach from Issue 3, Feb 1990 to Issue 77, 1994
Original master copies of An Tirisdeach – Tiree`s Newsletter, from Issue 3, 28 Feb 1990 to Issue 77, 15 March 1994. Issues 9, 10, 58 and 72-75 absent. The original copies of Issues 1 and 2 are filed separately as 2009.70.3 & 4.
