Minutes of meetings of the Disability Forum held at various locations in Crossapol in 1999 and 2000, chaired by Fiona MacKinnon, Kirkapol.
2023.12.2
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2023.12.1
Two small glass bottles, one green and one clear, and about 6cm in height, found in the ground outside house at Kirkapol. They are missing a lid and a stopper.
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.
2023.10.1
Silver cap badge from a cap worn by a member of the Seaforth Highlanders, circa 1941-1945. It features the Sutherland crest and the motto ‘Sans Peur’ (without fear). There is no information about the provenance of this item but the donation came from Vaul.
2023.9.1
Audio cassette recording of Hector Campbell, from Barrapol (Anne Brown’s brother), reciting poetry in around 1980. Inside the cassette case is a type-written copy of Walter de la Mare’s ‘Autumn‘.
2023.8.1
Hardbacked edition of ‘A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World’, by Erika Rappaport. Published in 2017 by Princeton University Press. 409pp with black and white photographs.
‘A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in-depth historical look at how men and women – through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa – transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. […] An expansive and orginal global history of imperial tea, A Thirst for Empire demonstrates the ways that this fluid and powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world.’
2023.7.1
Black and white photograph of unnamed seamen on a sailing boat in around the early 1900s, which formed the front page of a 1935 Gaelic school book (publication unknown). The item was found in Cnoc Ruadh, 10 Moss, Isle of Tiree.
