Tag Archives: gaelic

1997.95.1.1

Double spread feature about Tiree in the newspaper West Highland Star, 1997

Copy of the West Highland Star containing a feature about Tiree on pages 16 & 17. Includes articles about: (1) plans for a resource centre in Crosspol operated by Argyll & Bute Council Social Work Department which incorporate the local Forum for Disabilty and a youth café, with photograph of Primary 1 English and Gaelic units, (2) corncrake conservation and Dr Clive MacKay funded by RSPB and Scottish Natural Heritage, with photograph of Dr MacKay, (3) island gets ready for the longest running windsurfing event in the world, the Tiree Wave Classic, with photograph of Scarinish harbour, (4) young chess champion Daniel MacGowan chosen to represent Scotland in the European Youth Championship`s Under-12 section in Estonia, with photograph.

2002.30.1

Hardback book `The Essential Gaelic-English Dictionary` complied by Angus Watson.

Gaelic-English dictionary.

2002.30.3

Hardback book `Jura: Island of Deer` by Peter Youngson.

The island and its wildlife, far-off times, people and places, early visitors, the Church, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, schools and travel, the Crofters` Commission, the small islands to the north, tales and illustrations.

1997.72.1

Photocopied extract from `Oighreachd agus Gabhaltas`: `Aimhreit an Fhearainn an Tiriodh, 1886` by Prof. Donald Meek.

Paper about the land agitation on Tiree in the 1880s, in particular the disturbances centring on Greenhill, the arrival of the marines and the subsequent court case.

Includes unofficial translation ‘Land Agitation in Tiree in 1886’ by Donald Meek.