Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 5, Winter 1984.
Local news including ferry timetables, the mains water, hospital beds at Taigh a` Ruadh, grazing on the Reef, upgrading the public hall, recipes, crofting, RAF Tiree, and news from the churches and the school.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, Spring 1985 (2 copies).
Local news including the departure of Kevin and Cilla Boyd (BT) and J. Littlewood from the Power Station, the arrival of the new headmaster Colin Hunter and family, Social Security benefits, crofting history, recipes, news from Vaul Golf Club, the football club, WRI, the Regatta Club, the school and churches.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, Autumn 1987.
Local news including the cleaning of septic tanks and disposal of effluent, the retiral of school cook Flora MacArthur, doctor`s advice on the treatment of diarrhoea, the AITB training group for crofters, the financial position of the public hall, a Gaelic poem by Neil Brownlie, minister`s contribution, news from the golf club, the school, WRI and the Tiree Association.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, December 1987 (3 copies).
Local news including report form the WRI, Womens Guild and Tiree Agricultural Society, recipes, Tiree Wave Classic, contribution from the minister, training courses for crofters, news from the school, the football and the regatta clubs.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 27, 28/8/1991.
Local news including the plummeting sales prices for stock, the closure of the petrol pumps at Balemartine and the pierhead, the loss of the senior teacher of the Gaelic unit at the school, report from the Tiree Working Group on fishing, tourism and leisure, crofting and farming, the new waiting room at the surgery, obituary for Dolly Cameron and Balevullin – part 8 by Sandy MacKinnon.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 32, 27/11/1991.
Local news including forthcoming visit from CalMac representative, restricted petrol supplies at Balemartine, the Hynish Centre, changes in the school tuck shop, Cornaigmore – part 1 by Sandy MacKinnon and a meeting between the Crofters Union and the RSPB to discuss Environmentally Sensitive Areas on Tiree.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 37, 26/2/1992.
Local news including the rubbish dump at Beinn Gott, comparison of the income to Tiree from public services, tourism and crofting, and account of Tiree in the 1930s by Meena Knapman.
Binder `The Island of Tiree 1941 – 1943` containing an account of George Holleyman’s time on Tiree, plus 123 related photographs.
Account by RAF policeman and amateur archaeologist George Holleyman FSA of his time on Tiree between September 1941 and June 1943. Includes seventy-five photographs taken on Tiree by George Holleyman between September 1941 and June 1943, and forty-eight black and white photographs/postcards taken by unknown photographer(s). George Holleyman carried out significant amounts of pioneering archaeological work in Sussex during the first half of the 20th century along with Drs. Eliot and Cecil Curwen. He was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1949.
Three anecdotes about ‘the Goilear’
Sound clip in English of Hector MacPhail telling three anecdotes about ‘the Goilear’.
Hector MacPhail of Ruaig gave a talk at Vaul Golf Club in November 1996, during which he told three humorous anecdotes about a fisherman from Balevullin nicknamed ‘the Goilear’.
Black and white photograph of John Maclean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg.
John Maclean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg (Alec Mor`s father) with a Clydesdale stallion in the 1930s or 1940s.
