Copied newspaper cutting about Bernie Smith of West Hynish.
Photograph of Bernie Smith of West Hynish who competed in the 1970 Mod.
2001.24.1
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2004.95.6
Programme for the Pre-Mod Ceilidh on 1/10/2003.
Programme for the Pre-Mod Ceilidh held in Tiree high School on 1st October 2003.
2001.54.1
Black and white photograph of Còisir Thiriodh (conductor Mabel Macarthur) at the Mòd Nàiseanta in Oban in 1992
The Tiree choir at the Oban Mod in 1992.
L-R: (front row) Mairi MacArthur, Roisgal; Elaine MacArthur, Balinoe; Mabel Macarthur, Sandaig (conductor); Margaret Ryan; Jessie Gray, Balemartine;
(middle row) Jill Robertson; Stuart Smith, Hynish; Maggie Campbell, Kilmoluaig; Lachie Campbell, Cornaigbeg; Donniel Kennedy, Hynish; Murdina MacLean, Kilmoluaig; Clare Jones, Baugh; Alec MacLean, Cornaigbeg; Joyce Gillespie, Balinoe; Mairi MacLean, Ruaig; Mary Ann MacDonald, Heanish;
(back row) Stewart Langley, Kirkapol; Brian Findlater, Scarinish; Donald Berry,Vaul; Donald MacDonald; Iain MacLeod, Kilmoluaig.
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.
2004.16.1
Copy of prize label awarded to Donald Kennedy, Moss at the 1927 Mod.
Label on inside cover of book `Songs and Hymns of the Gael` awarded to Donald Kennedy of Moss as 1st prize for translation of Gaelic into English at the 1927 Mod.
2000.205.1
Audio cassette recording of Ethel MacCallum of Tiree and Inverary talking to Maggie Campbell in 2000.
Ethel MacCallum of Tiree and Inverary talks to Maggie Campbell in 2000 about arriving in Tiree in 1943 aged six, the Post Office where she stayed, her schooling, working on the croft and in the Post Office and later at Inverary Castle, finding her brother and meeting her husband; Ethel sings a psalm and three Gaelic songs – Catriona Og, Tir a’ mhurainn, Tilleadh an t-eilean as boidhche fon ghrein – giving details of who wrote them and why.
1999.258.1
Audio cassette recording of Hugh Macleod of Cornaigbeg talking to Maggie Campbell in November 1999.
Hugh MacLeod (Eòghann Charrachan) of Cornaigbeg talks to Maggie Campbell in November 1999 about the smiddy in Cornaig and the blacksmith Seumas MacCallum who worked there in the 1930s and 1940s shoeing horses, the two churches in Cornaig and the preacher, Hector Meek of Caoles, church attendance, the Cornaig mill, the livestock at Whitehouse which was once a school, the weather station, the old ferries, good singers from Cornaig including Mod medallists.
2001.49.18
Photocopied newspaper article about Tiree.
Local news about the new Medical Officer Dr MacDougall, the meeting of the school board in the Reading Room and the prize-giving for the Mod competitors in Scarinish School.
2000.219.1
Gaelic story `MacAidh agus Domhnall Mhic Chaluim` transcribed by Flora MacPhail from a sound recording by her husband Hector.
Gaelic story transcribed by Flora MacPhail from a sound recording by her husband Hector and told at the Dunoon Mod in 2000 by John Nagus MacKinnon of Kilmoluaig.
2001.92.3
Gaelic play from Tiree High School.
Seven page Gaelic play from Tiree High School, possibly performed at the 2000 Mod.