Black & white photograph of a map of Scotland (unknown publication), taken by archaeologist George Holleyman FSA when he was stationed at RAF Tiree during WWII. Scanned from one of his glass lantern slides now held at An Iodhlann (see 2017.54.4).
Booklet “Old Scatness – Broch and Iron Age Village, Shetland”
Guide book to the history, excavation and preservation of Old Scatness in Shetland, “perhaps the best preserved, excavated, Iron Age site in Britain – or indeed, the world.”
Paperback book `Meeting in Norway` extracted from `Saga-book, Vol. XXIX`.
Norse-Gaelic relations in the kingdom of Man and the Isles.
Extract from book `The History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland 1493-1625` by Donald Gregory.
Extracts relating to Tiree: pp 14-17, 24-27, 110-111, 120-123, 132-133, 190-191, 234-235, 390-391.
CD Pròiseact Thiriodh CD-SA1953-85.
Hector MacLean (Eachann Ban) talks about funeral customs; the story of `Blar nan Sguab`; a premonition of cars; the building of the wall at Crossapol; stories of a hand and a money box and about stealing the goodness from milk; stories about fairies, water-horses and mermaids; how emigrants had to leave their cattle at Island House; spinning sìoman; harvest customs; Iain Kennedy and his stories; droving; coal boats; whisky making; a story about a wolf and a fox; shebeens and his work as a steward.
Mini-disk SA1953/85.
Hector MacLean (Eachann Ban) talks about funeral customs; the story of `Blar nan Sguab`; a premonition of cars; the building of the wall at Crossapol; stories of a hand and a money box and about stealing the goodness from milk; stories about fairies, water-horses and mermaids; how emigrants had to leave their cattle at Island House; spinning sìoman; harvest customs; Iain Kennedy and his stories; droving; coal boats; whisky making; a story about a wolf and a fox; shebeens and his work as a steward.
Paperback book `Alba: The Gaelic Kingdom of Scotland 800-1124` by Stephen Driscoll.
The establishment of the fedal kingdom of Alba from kingdoms of the Picts, Northumbria, Dalriada and Strathclyde.
Hardback book `The Argyll Book` edited by Donald Omand.
Twnety-one chapters about Argyll by recognised experts in the fields of archaeology, prehistory, early Christianity, the Viking period, the Lordship of the Isles, the Clan Campbell, industry, architecture, agriculture, oral traditions and traditions, Gaelic language and literature.
Paperback book `Somerled, Hammer of the Norse` by Kathleen MacPhee.
History of Somerled, c. 1100-1164, the first Lord of the Isles,
Book `They Came From Tiree` by Gene Donald Lamont.
A history of Tiree from 7000 BC to 1851 AD with chapters on the economic situation in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the famine years and emigration to Canada.
