Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 214, 29/1/2000.
Local news and events including a review of ferry fares, the public hall, the new surgery and news from the Feis and the school.
2000.18.2
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2001.157.1
Audio cassette recording of Wilma Kennedy singing `Orain nan Tirisdeach`.
Wilma Kennedy recorded by Dr John Holliday singing ten Gaelic songs at the Feis in 2001.
2001.158.9
Colour photograph of Rev. Bob Higham and teacher Margaret MacKay in 2001.
Rev. Bob Higham and Gaelic teacher Margaret MacKay outside Heylipol Church after the Feis Service in July 2001.
2004.114.2
Newletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 324, 24/7/2004.
Local news and events including the agricultural show, the Goose Management Scheme, `Choose Life` theatre workshop, the Community of the Year award and news from the Feis and Citizens` Advice Bureau.
2004.103.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 322, 26/6/04
Local news and events including the opening of An Talla, a visit from the Crofters Commission, the increase in security charges for air travellers, sports camps at the school, a crofting and environmental study to be carried out by Tiree Rural Development and news from the Golf Club, the Community Council, the Feis and the school.
2004.71.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 320, 29/5/2004.
Local news and events including the American volunteers re-roofing the Baptist manse, the death by drowning of Anthony Pearce from Caoles, letter from Councillor Ian Gillies, the clean-up of Gott Bay and news from the Tiree Seedcorn Fund, the school, the youth club, the feis and Tiree Community Business.
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.
2004.12.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 312, 7/2/2004.
Local news and events including the forthcoming study of Tiree by the Islands Energy Agency, Councillor`s View, the beached whale on Coll, the new Crofters Commission Development Officer, the Scottish Islands Network Newsletter, and news from the WRI, the school, RSPB, Tiree Development Partnership and the feis.
1999.230.8
Tutors at the first Fèis Thiriodh
Photograph of the tutors at the first Fèis Thiriodh outside Tiree High School in 1990.
Fèis Thiriodh (the Tiree Festival) started in 1990, following the success of the first Fèis on Barra in 1981. The Fèis is a means of celebrating and transmitting local culture by encouraging young people to sing, play and dance, using Gaelic wherever possible.
The Fèis takes place in the second week of July each year. Between sixty to eighty children from nine to sixteen years old take part in classes for accordion, fiddle, drums, singing, dancing, keyboard, pipes and whistle. Recently mouth organ has become popular. Shinty is also played on the school playing fields.
During the winter the Fèis committee organises instrumental classes at the school and winter ceilidhs. Over the years the island has produced a disproportionate number of musicians, particularly accordion players tutored by Gordon Connell, and pipers tutored by Robert Beck.
Black and white photograph of the tutors at the 1990 Feis Thiriodh.
The tutors at the 1990 Feis Thiriodh outside Tiree High School. L-R: (standing) Alistair Hunter, Tommy Johnston, Donald Iain Brown, Gordon Connell, Roddy Campbell, Don MacKenzie, (sitting) Florence Burns, Anne Johnstone, Mairi MacArthur, unknown, (kneeling) Mark Fallon, Arthur Donald.
1999.230.9
Black and white photograph of a fiddle class at the 1990 Feis Thiriodh.
Fiddle class at the 1990 Feis Thiriodh in Tiree High School with Lyndsay White of Crossapol and tutor Florence Burns.
