Book “Na Baird Tirisdeach”
Book “Na Baird Tirisdeach – The Tiree Bards” containing original compositions of natives of Tiree at home and abroad. Edited by Rev. Hector Cameron. (Belonged to Ian Johnston, Heanish and signed “To Aunty Mary from Morag, Xmas 1934”).
Copy of Poem from Mr. Robin Campbell, descendent of John Campbell, Am Baillidh Dubh
Copy of `Moladh` Poem written to Iain Campbell, gifted to An Iodhlann by Mr. Robin Campbell, Am Bailidh Dubh`s Great, Great Grandson.
Photocopy of a receipt dated 17th March 1845 for the purchase of oatmeal by John MacLean, Caoles (Am Bard Thighearna Cholla; 1787-1848), at Barney`s River, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Photocopy of the marriage certificate of John MacLean, Caoles (Am Bard Thighearna Cholla; 1787-1848) and Isabella Black. They were married in Glasgow on 18th July 1808, where they were both residents and where John was a shoemaker. They later emmigrated to Nova Scotia.
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John MacLean of Balephuil and Manitoba
Photograph of John MacLean of Balephuil in Manitoba around 1900.
Courtesy of Mr Wallace Robertson
This photograph, taken around 1900, shows John MacLean of Balephuil outside his homestead in Manitoba. John, the son of Donald MacLean and his wife Ann MacLean, emigrated to Canada in 1878 with his brother Charles and nephew Hector.
They arrived in Tiverton, Ontario where John met and soon married a Tiree woman, Flora MacKinnon née MacLean, a widow with a daughter Kate. They all moved to the Brandon Hills area of Manitoba and homesteaded at Dewart Farm in Little Souris. They were among the first settlers in the area.
John, it was said, was a good bard, but his childhood friend John MacLean of Balemartine was the better of the two. He wrote a famous song ‘Manitoba’ describing their leaving from Balephuil, and the rage he felt that the Highlands, which had provided so many soldiers for the British Empire, were being stripped of its people.
Sepia photograph of John MacLean, the Balephuil bard, in Manitoba around 1900.
John MacLean (1825-1912), the son of Donald McLean of Sandaig and Anne McLean of Balemeannach. He emigrated from Balephuil in 1878 with his brother Charles and nephew Hector, eventually settling in Manitoba.
Black and white photograph of the farm at Little Souris, Manitoba owned by John MacLean, the Balephuil bard.
Dewart Farm owned by John MacLean, the Balephuil bard, and his wife Flora, located in Little Souris, Manitoba in the Brandon Hills area, aound 1900.
Hardback book `Duthchas nan Gaidheal` edited by Michael Newton.
Selected eassays of John MacInnes.
MD recording of a talk by Rob Dunbar about Am Bard Thighearna Cholla in An Talla on 30/3/2006.
Talk by Rob Dunbar about bard John MacLean from Caoles held in An Talla on 30th March 2006 during the Tiree Conference of the Society for Northern Studies.
Hardback book `The Prose Writings of Donald Lamont 1874-1958` edited by Thomas M. Murchison.
A sample of the prose writings of Dr Donald Lamont with an introduction in English.
Transcript of a radio broadcast in 1958 by Professor Alasdair MacKinnon about Neil MacLean (Niall an Tailleir).
Transcript of a Gaelic radio broadcast on 12th March 1958 by Professor Alasdair MacKinnon about Neil MacLean (Niall an Tailleir).
