Book `The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands`, ca 1940
Hardback book `The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands`, a collection of Highland melodies with Gaelic and English words and musical score, edited by Alfred Moffat around 1940.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 416, 10/5/08
Local news: message in a bottle, Crossapol; RSPB information; interview with Steve Thomson, Balinoe; release of CD of traditional Gaelic songs; Tales from the Stackyard – The Library, 1911; Lochgilphead School in Arctic; sheep tagging, Argyll Estates` fishing rules; livestock sale results; Tiree Community Trust news; SWRI meeting; bale-wrap recycling.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 429, 08/11/08
Local news: retirement of PC Danny Lapsley; interview with George Campbell; HMS Sturdy memorial; Farmhouse Café opens in Balemartine; Labour spin-doctor Alastair Campbell; cattle sale results; `Danny`s Song`.
CD of TMSA Young Trad Tour 2014
CD of music and songs performed by winners and runners-up of the 2014 competition run by the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland, during their post-competition tour of Scotland. Includes accordionist Ian Smith, West Hynish.
Notes regarding audio recordings made on Tiree in 1972 and 1974
Two folders of handwritten notes made by Eric Cregeen while he was recording Tiree people speaking onto cassette tape during 1972 and 1974, plus a map of Balephuil, Balinoe and Barrapol annotated with the names of people living in each house. People recorded in notes: Donald Sinclair, Hector Kennedy – Balephuil, John Brown – Balephuil, John MacLean – Kilmoluaig, John MacLean – Cornaigbeg. Subjects covered include ancestry, Gaelic prose and songs, people living nearby, second sight, place names, shebeens, building construction, poverty, weather, schools, food, shops, water supplies, emigrants, rents, skeleton, confrontations, ferries and ships, literacy, crofts, Pairc na Coille, wars, Land Leagues, churches, illnesses.
Book ` The Summer Walkers`, 1996
Softback book about the origins of Scotland`s travelling people, their stories, poetry, songs, customs, superstitions and secret `cover tongue`.
Selection of Gaelic and Scottish songs and music on vinyl records from the 1960s and 70s.
Eight 45rpm and ten 33rpm vinyl records of Gaelic, Scottish, classical and popular dance music, pipe music and songs from the 1960s and 1970s, including `My Isle Tiree` by Donald MacRae, `Roghainn Mairi` by Mairi MacArthur (of Tiree descent), `Norman MacLean Sings` (of Tiree descent), and `Inveraray Castle Ceilidh`, plus `Abdication of HRH The Duke of Windsor` recorded by Leslie Mitchell for the Sunday Express.
Selection of gramophone records of Gaelic, Scottish and classical music from the 1930s-1950s.
Nineteen 78rpm gramophone records of Gaelic, popular Scottish and classical music and songs from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Photograph of a group of singers and musicians on stage in 2006
Colour photograph of singers and musicians performing on stage to a packed audience in An Talla during the A` Bhuain homecoming in spring 2006. Some of the performers are Tiree diaspora. Original held on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1.
Collection of songs by Louise MacDougall, Canada, 2013
Collection of five songs inspired by Tiree`s history of emigration by Tiree descendent Louise MacDougall of Canada: (1) Goodbye Ann McLean, (2) Made in Tiree, Talkin` Blues (descendents version), Manitoba Bound 1878, (4) Manitoba New Year 1880, (5) Shell River. Held on An Iodhlann computer and on the laptop computer in the exhibition area.
