Newspaper cutting `Litir do luchd-ionnsachaidh` for Gaelic learners.
Letter to Gaelic learners by Ruairidh MacIlleathain
2000.2.3
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2000.2.4
Newspaper cutting of Gaelic crossword and answers.
Gaelic crossword and answers
2000.2.5
Poster for Millennium Hogmanay Party at Crossapol Hall.
Poster advertising Millennium Hogmanay Party at Tiree`s Crossapol Hall
2000.2.6
Poster for Millennium Firework Display & bonfire at the Reef
Poster for Millennium Firework Display & Bonfire at the Reef on Tiree
2000.3.1
Book `An Tuil – Anthology of 20th century Scottish Gaelic verse` edited by Ronald Black.
An anthology of over 350 bilingual poems by 100 Gaelic poets of the century, including Domhnall Ruadh Choruna, Donald Macintyre, Sorley MacLean, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith and Donald John MacDonald. Includes extensive biographies.
1997.84.1
Photocopied computer printout from Tiree Met Office.
Monthly rainfall figures for January, February and March 1976-1995.
1997.85.1
Photocopied petition to the Duke of Argyll from the widow of Donald MacArthur, Caoles, 1887.
Petition asking for a reduction in rent for a low-lying croft in Caoles and statinng that the petitioner has not attended any Land League meetings or applied to the Crofters Commission.
1997.86.1
Photocopied handwritten letter to Alex. MacIntosh, Caoles `Plea airson a Ghaelic a labhairt pure`.
Tongue-in-cheek letter pleading for pure Gaelic but using many English words, written by Gilleasbuig Lachain.
1997.87.1
Original and photocopied report `Tiriodh agus Colla: A social and economic geolinguistic study` by Clive James, Caernarvon, Wales in 1991.
The numbers of Gaelic speakers in the Hebridean islands in Argyll from 1891 to 1981 focussing on Tiree and Coll and the relationship between economic strength and cultural and linguistic survival.
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.