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1997.265.48

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 13, 31/10/1990.

Local news including the decision by the Health Board not to go ahead with the nursing beds at Taigh a` Ruadh, the Youth Club, the Wave Classic, the Associate GP scheme, the Govan Mod, the award of a BEM to Hugh MacDonald of Mannal, and news from the playgroups.

1997.265.83

Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 47, 9/9/1992.

Local news including concerns over the state of the pierhead, dental hygiene in Argyll, Moss – part 3 by Sandy MacKinnon, lamb and cattle sales, Tiree entrants to the Mod, and news from the gardening and regatta clubs.

2000.150.6

Copied newspaper cutting about a Mod Gold Medallist Morag Macdonald.

National Mod Gold Medallist Morag Macdonald whose mother came from Tiree, possibly Skipnish.

1998.182.34

Photocopied page of four newspaper cuttings from the Oban Times, 1968.

(1) Article about Major Iain MacLennan, chairman of the Council of Social Services and of the local District Council, who reports that the councils want to attract light industry to Tiree, reduce freight costs and improve and extend the public water supply, (2) formation of a Tiree Youth Club, (3) new medical unit for Dr Calvert, (4) letters about Anne Sinclair’s piping success and Danina Langley’s  MOD success.

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2002.163.4

Newspaper photograph of Cornaigmore Secondary School choir.

Photograph of Cornaigmore Secondary School choir which won the unison singing at the National Mod in Ayr. L-R: (back) Monica Davies; May Margaret MacDonald; Margaret Ann Campbell; Ailidh Campbell; unknown; Christina Brown; Eileen Lyons; Archie MacFadyen; Alasdair Sinclair; unknown; Norman MacArthur; Bunty Thomson; (front) Eoghann Archie MacArthur; unknown; Margaret MacLean; unknown; Lena MacNeill.