Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 7, 9/5/1990.
Local news including a reply from Hector MacPhail to an article in the last issue `Gie`s a Job`, CalMac`s summer sailings and a Youth Club update.
1997.265.42
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2001.96.3
Laser print of a black and white photograph of two unknown children outside Heylipol Cottage in the 1920s.
Two unknown children outside Heylipol Cottage. (From Myra Lamont`s photograph album of the 1920s)
2003.121.1
Audio cassette recording of Bunty Kennedy interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Coll on 8/7/2003.
Maggie Campbell talks to Bunty Kennedy of Coll in July 2003 about her early childhood and schooldays on Tiree in the 1940s, her life on Coll from the 1950s to the present day, the water and electricity supply, the postal services, fishing, past and present New Years on Coll. She sings a verse of a song by Iain MacDonald and her son, Cailean, plays a few tunes on the accordion. Bunty Ceannaideach o Colla a’ bruidhinn ri Mairead Caimbeul anns an t-Iuchair 2003 mu dheidhinn làithean sgoile ann a Tiriodh anns na ceathradan, fuireachd ann a Colla anns na coigeadan, nuair a thàinig dealan agus uisge gu Colla, am post, iasgach agus mar a bha am Bliadhna Ur air a thoirt a steach fo chionn fhada taca ris mar a tha e air a’ dhèanamh air an latha an diugh. Tha Bunty a seinn rann fo òrain Iain MacDhòmhnaill agus tha Cailean, a mac aice, a cluich am bogsa ciùil.
2003.122.1
Audio cassette recording of Morag Kennedy interviewed by Maggie Campbell in Coll on 10/7/2003
Maggie Campbell talks to Morag Kennedy of Arinagour, Coll in July 2003 about her life in service at Breachacha Castle from the age of 16 – the daily routine, the uniforms and days off, the changes she’s seen since she was a young girl especially for children, the Arinagour shop, the local doctor and his pony and cart. Morag Cheannadach a’ bruidhinn ri Mairead Caimbeul air Eilean Cholla anns an t-Iuchair 2003 mu deidhinn a bhith ag obair aig seirbheis anns an caisteal Breachacha bho bha i 16, obair an latha, an trusgan a bhitheadh orra agus na rudan a’ bhitheadh i a’ deànamh nuair bha la saoir aice. Tha Morag cuideachd a’ bruidhinn mu dheidhinn na rudan a tha air atharrachadh ann a Colla bho bha i na nighean òg, bùth Arinagobhar agus obair a lighiche.
1999.99.7
Black and white photograph of Mary Margaret MacLean, May MacPhail and Mary MacEachern.
Mary Margaret MacLean, Cornaigbeg (Alec Mor`s aunt), May MacPhail, Harbour, Cornaigmore (Hector MacPhail`s aunt) and Mary MacEachern, Cornaigbeg, the blacksmith`s daughter, taken in the early 1920s.
1999.99.14
Black and white photograph of Mary Margaret MacLean and Mary MacEachern of Cornaigbeg around 1920.
Mary Margaret MacLean (Alec Mor`s aunt) and Mary MacEachern, the blacksmith`s daughter, both of Cornaigbeg, taken at the shore around 1920.
1999.99.42
Black and white photograph of Hugh and Archie MacEachern and John MacLean.
Playmates in Cornaigbeg in the early 1920s. L-R: brothers Hugh and Archie (Leaban) MacEachern from the smiddie at Creag Mhor; John MacLean from the Brae (Alec Mor`s father).
1999.99.20
Black and white photograph of Hugh MacEachern, John MacLean and Archie MacEachern around 1920.
Playmates in 1920. L-R: Hugh MacEachern, son of the blacksmith at Cornaigbeg; John MacLean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg (Alec Mor`s father); Hugh`s brother, Archie MacEachern, also known as `Leaban`.
1998.246.1
Letter to Elsie MacKinnon dated 14/8/1969 from Glasgow Corporation Children`s Department.
Letter to Elsie MacKinnon of Lodge Farm dated 14/8/1969 from Glasgow Corporation Children`s Department asking her to admit (foster) three children aged 7 to 10.
1998.199.1
Photocopied newspaper article about Lord Bannerman of Kildonan.
Extract from `The Memoirs of Lord Bannerman of Kildonan` who spent his school holidays in Tiree with his grandparents.