Colour photograph of a memorial to an RAF Tiree crew in Bundoran, Ireland.
Memorial at Bundoran, Ireland to a Halifax crew from RAF Tiree who crashed in January 1944, photographed in June 2003.
2004.90.1
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1999.317.1
Paperback book `The Great Highland Famine` by T. M. Devine.
A detailed account of the clearances of the 19th century, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration.
2000.74.1
Audio cassette recording of Janet MacIntosh talking to Maggie Campbell in March 2000.
Janet MacIntosh of Caoles and Balinoe talks to Maggie Campbell in March 2000 about her schooldays in Balemartine, her pastimes, the delivery of a telegram from Balinoe Post Office, wartime and the pictures, the funeral of 16 RAF crew members who died in a plane crash, monthly ceilidhs, dances and Gaelic plays, travelling shops, funerals, transport, gathering and cooking seafood and seaweed, and the health benefits of sea water.
2004.32.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 316, 3/4/2004.
Local news and events including the fire at Milton harbour and the Milton Fishermen`s Fund, the `Generations` CD from Australia, the whale jawbones missing from Coll, CalMac summer timetable, prize-winning baby Michael MacDonald from Crossapol, the Tank Farm Development and news from the RSPB, the Feis, An Talla committee and the Youth Club.
1999.299.8
Paperback book `Letters from the Highlands` by Robert Somers.
Collection of letters written in 1847 during a `tour of inquiry` into the effects of the potato famine in the Highlands and published in the North British Daily Mail.
2000.225.9
Paperback book `Contempt, Sympathy and Romance` by Krisztina Fenyo.
An examination of the attitude of Lowland Scots to Highland Gaels in the 19th century as expressed in the press.
2000.50.9
Paperback book `The Great Highland Famine` by T. M. Devine.
A detailed account of the clearances of the 19th century, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration.
2001.174.1
Audio cassette recording of Bernie Smith, Hynish talking to Maggie Campbell in October 2001.
Bernie Smith of Hynish talks to Maggie Campbell in October 2001 about coming to Tiree aged four or five, his schooling at Balemartine, the Balephuil tragedy, his teachers and learning Gaelic, going to Glasgow at 16 to become a joiner, working with a plumber on Tiree, his boyhood, Sabbath observance, dances, changes at the airport, people in Balephuil, competing in the Mod, fishing and the Tiree bards; Bernie sings two Gaelic songs.
2001.182.1
Audio cassette recording of Mabel MacArthur of Sandaig talking to Maggie Campbell in October 2001.
Mabel MacArthur of Sandaig talks to Maggie Campbell in October 2001 about her trip to America where she witnessed the terrorist incident at the New York World Trade Centre on September 11th from 15-20 blocks away, the terrible smell and smoke the next day and how relieved she was to leave. Tha Mabel Nic Artair a’ bruidhinn re Magaidh Chaimbeul anns an Dàmhair 2001 mun cuairt a ghabh i gu Ameireaga far an d’ fhianais i tubaist oillteachas ann an New York Trade Centre air a cheud latha deug de ’n t-Sultain, am fàileadh uamhasach agus an toit an ath latha, agus cho taingeil ’s bha i bhi ga fhàgail.
1998.284.2
Audio cassette recording of Hugh MacLean of Barrapol talking to John Donald MacLean in May 1998.
Hugh MacLean (Eòghann Dhòmhnaill Eòghainn Mhòir) of Barrapol talks to John Donald MacLean (Teòn Dòmhnall a’ Mhuilinn) about shipwrecks around the Tiree coasts, seamen’s burial grounds, fishing, shooting cormorants and geese, seaweed as food, the changes in people’s diet and children’s toys, his first bike, self-taught pipers and fiddlers, the genealogy of Pipe Major John MacDonald, the names of Kennavara’s cliffs and caves, and Heylipol School. Tha Eòghann Dhòmhnaill Eòghainn Mhòir a Goirtean Dòmhnall a’ bruidhinn ri Teòn Dòmhnall a’ Mhuilinn mu na luing-bhriste a tha mun cuairt cladaichean Thiriodh, cladha na maraiche, iasgach, a’ sealg sgairbh agus geòidh, ùis feamainn na biadh, na h-atharrachaidhean ann an biadh dhaoine agus dèideagan cloinne, a’ cheud rothair a bha aige fhèin, pìobairean agus fidhlearan a ionnsaich iad fhèin, Màidsear Pìobaireachd Iain Mhic Dhòmhnaill, ainmeannan agus uaimh Cheann a’ Bhara agus Sgoil na Mòintich.