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1997.87.1

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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.

| Tags: gaelic, population|
| Dates: 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s| | Object Types: academia|

1997.88.1

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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.

| Tags: international tales, thorgunna|
| Object Types: book extract|

1997.88.2

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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.

| Tags: international tales, thorgunna|
| Object Types: book extract|

1997.89.1

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Photocopied notice of Argyll County Council meeting in Dunoon on 4/10/1894 re the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act, 1878.

Meeting to add a number of roads in Tiree to the list of roads, highways and bridges maintained by the council.

| Tags: balemartine, balephuil, gott, kilkenneth, land routes, local government and public services, moss, ruaig|
| Dates: 1890s| | Townships: balemartine, balephuil, gott, kilkenneth, moss, ruaig| | Object Types: document|

1997.89.2

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Photocopied Tiree School Board document c. 1919-20

List of schools and teachers, their sex, date of birth, qualifications, post held, date of appointment, salary and tenure, terms and conditions.

| Tags: education and cultural services|
| Dates: 1910s, 1920s| | Object Types: document|

1997.89.3

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Photocopied extract from Scarinish Public School log book, 27/12/1898 – 13/1/1899.

Low attendance at school because of the stormy weather.

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| Tags: education and cultural services, meteorology, scarinish|
| Townships: scarinish| | Object Types: document|

1997.89.4

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Laminated photocopy of transcript of petition from the crofters of Kilmoluaig to the County Clerk, 7/12/1903.

Determination of the crofters of Kilmoluaig to refuse to pay the County Assessments until the township road is dressed by the Council.

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| Tags: kilmoluaig, land routes, local government and public services|
| Townships: kilmoluaig| | Object Types: document|

1997.90.1

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Photocopied extract from unknown publication titled `Tiree and Coll`, c. 1845.

The custom of drinking ardent spirits at funerals.

| Tags: drinks and stimulants, old age death and burial|
| Dates: 1840s| | Object Types: newsprint|

1997.91.1

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Macfarlan, Shearer & Co. catalogue dated 8/11/1940.

Price list for animal and poultry foods, farm sundries, sheep dips, fencing, roofing and building materials.

| Tags: mixed farming|
| Dates: 1940s| | Object Types: miscellaneous|

1997.92.1

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Architectural drawing for the new community hall by ARP, Lorimer & Associates, February 1997

First floor plan, site plan and section B.

| Tags: crossapol, plans, public halls|
| Dates: 1990s| | Townships: crossapol| | Object Types: artwork/design|
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