We are delighted to announce the launch of this, our new website. From 1 December 2015 anyone with internet access will be able to browse our archive from anywhere in the world, and carry out in-depth searches too. The online archive includes digital images of thousands of photographs, documents and artefacts, and a sample of our audio recordings. In future, we hope to include images of everything in the archive, and all of our audio and video recordings. That’s around 12,000 items in total! There is also information on our exhibitions, projects, genealogy service and even a shop.
One of the ceramic red poppies from the display of 888,246 from the Tower of London in 2014 commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war. Each represented one British or colonial life lost. Bought and donated by Greta Travers who was posted to Tiree as a WAAF in 1945, during the second world war. The poppy was placed in the ground in front of the RAF Halifax memorial at Tiree’s airport for a while during 2015. See also 2017.12.2
Article in Fiddler magazine, 2010, about fiddler Calum MacKinnon, Seattle, whose Gaelic parents were from Tiree. Calum taught fiddle at Fèis Thiriodh 1998, and played at A’ Bhuain – Tiree Homecoming 2016.
Article in the Scots Magazine by Peter Myres recalling his maritime adventures around Tiree in 2009. Titled ‘Boat Daft on Tiree’ he writes about the ferries and puffers and a trip to Coll. Includes colour photographs of Travee from Balephuil, the ferry Claymore in 1962, hoisting a old Alvis car from the Claymore, the puffer Lascar, and Sheena Beck, Ruaig, with her children Drew, Robin and Margaret in 1962. Pages 408-412.
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.
Black and white portrait photograph of Reverend Hector Cameron, around 1915. Rev Cameron was born in Cornaigmore and became a Gaelic scholar, the editor of the book `Tiree Bards’, co-author of `The Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree`, and writer of Gaelic poetry.
Hardback book ‘The Great Book of Skye’ by Norman MacDonald and Cailean MacLean, 2014. An extensive study of the people of Skye spanning 200 years. Includes a few Tiree people who moved to Skye. See 2017.17.1 for the second volume of this work.
Isle of Tiree Genealogywww.tireegenealogy.com A wealth of information about Tiree and its people by Keith Dash, Australia.
Tiree Graveswww.tireegraves.org.uk A searchable database of all of the older inscribed headstones in Tiree’s graveyards.
Tiree Place Nameswww.tireeplacenames.org A searchable database of the Gaelic names of houses, crofts and features of the landscape, including houses named after the people who lived in them.
Tiree Ancestral Roots www.facebook.com/groups A public meeting place on Facebook for those who trace their ancestral roots to the Isle of Tiree.
Isle of Tiree DNAwww.facebook.com/groups A members-only branch of the ‘Tiree Ancestral Roots’ Facebook group. Descendants explore and assist each other in the pursuit of their connections.
Scotland’s Peoplewww.scotlandspeople.gov.uk The official government source of genealogical data for Scotland.
Old Parish Registerswww.nrscotland.gov.uk Records of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials kept by the Church of Scotland before civil registration was introduced in 1855.
Commonwealth War Graves Commissionwww.cwgc.org Includes a Register of the details of Commonwealth war dead so that graves or names on memorials can be located.
Archive items tagged ‘Emigration’www.aniodhlann/emigration A list of everything in An Iodhlann’s archive database related to the emigration of Tiree’s people.
“One Island’s Harvest”. Heritage, Diaspora & Ancestral Tourism to Tiree a thesis by Joanna Rodgers exploring “ancestral tourism, a globally ubiquitous heritage tourism practice which in Scotland has become entangled with specific narratives about diaspora, tourism and heritage”. Rodgers_thesis.pdf (uhi.ac.uk)
