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2023.12.4

Bound booklet about the restoration of the Kirkapol Chapels. 14pp. Includes colour photographs, an article entitled St Columba and Tiree by Rev R Higham, grant award notices and a black and white map. Can be dated to c1999 from copy of funding notice.

2023.11.1

Detailed set of instructions for making a ship in a bottle. Written in ink on various scraps of paper with accompanying diagrams. Can perhaps be dated to c1959 as one of the scraps has been taken from a calendar of this year. Other scraps are from headed paper with The Scottish Tube Co. Ltd. printed at the top. The donation came from a house in Balevullin.

2022.29.12

Hardback edition of A Pronouncing Gaelic-English Dictionary by celebrated lexiographer, Neil MacAlpine, of Islay.

Inside cover board inscribed, ‘A.R. MacDonald, Cornaigbeg, Tiree. Personal Property’.

Gaelic to English and English to Gaelic, with phonetic key.

Re-printed from 1845 first pressing several times.

549pp.

2022.29.11

Leather-bound edition of The Bible, with parallel and illustrative passages. Inside leaf is inscribed, ‘D MacDonald, Kenovay, 1887’ and ‘Ishbel MacD’; pre-title page inscribed, ‘Ishbel MacDonald, Kenovay’.

Items belonged to the familes MacDonald, MacCorguadale and Maclean of Kenovay.

2020.6.2

Hard-backed edition of Fishing Boats and Fisher Folk on the East Coast of Scotland’, written and illustrated by Peter F. Anson. First edition, published in 1930.

294pp with colour plates and black and white line drawings.

A local history of fishing ports, boats and fisher folk on the East Coast of Scotland, with mention of Oban, Tiree and Barra.

See 2020.6.1 for scanned copy of page relevant to Tiree.