Tag Archives: pipers and pipe bands

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Colour photograph of Tiree Pipe Band at the opening of An Talla in July 2004.

Tiree Pipe Band playing at the opening of An Talla on 1st July 2004. Clockwise from extreme left: Pipe Major Duncan MacLean, Angus MacPhail, unknown, Niall MacKinnon, Ben Williams, Ian MacDonald, Kenneth MacKinnon, Sophie Isaacson, John Isaacson, Gordon Connell, Scott Brown, Andrew Findlater, Iain Smith, Michael Holliday, John MacLean (centre).

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2004.86.1

Paperback book `Tiree Tales` by Fiona E. MacKinnon translated by Margaret MacKay, 1997.

A collection of 25 stories from Tiree by Fiona MacKinnon of Lodge Farm, Kirkapol and translated into Gaelic by Margaret MacKay.

2004.38.21

Black and white group photograph, possibly taken at a Tiree Association event.

Possibly a Tiree Association event in the 1940s or 50s. L-R: (back row) Piper Hugh Kennedy, Kilmoluaig; Alasdair MacFarlane, artist who painted ‘Taeping’; blacksmith Archie MacEachern, Cornaigbeg; policemen Neil MacLean, the Croft, Balevullin; unknown; boat pilot Donald Archie MacFarlane; Hugh Cameron, ‘Lochiel’, Cornaigmore; (front row, middle) Dr John Cameron, ‘Lochiel’, Cornaigmore.

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2001.154.1

Audio cassette recording of Carol and Mrs Stoker of Scainish talking to Maggie Campbell in August 2001.

Carol and Mrs Stoker of Scarinish talk to Maggie Campbell in August 2001 about their holidays in Tiree and the changes they’ve seen since the 1960s in the shops, old people’s home, holiday houses, dances, the fencing of common grazing, ferries, the telephone exchange, golf course, farming and the increase in caravans on the island.

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