Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 420, 5/7/08
Local news including Highland Show success for Ruaig and Heylipol farms; interview with Gordon Connell, Crossapol; MBE for CalMac`s Eric Ruthven; forthcoming Feis Thiriodh; RSPB information; `Gaelic Onboard` sessions on CalMac ferries; primary 6/7 school trip to central Scotland; Ena Kerr – new president of the Tiree Association; merit prize awarded to Eoghann M MacLean, Tiree High School; Tiree Agricultural Show home industries schedule.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 427, 11/10/08
Local news: rock drilling at Ruaig; interview with Bernie Smith; access; council urges residents to measure their carbon footprint; council welcomes Marine Bill; An Talla news; Tiree Environmental Action and Recycling news; Tiree-Glasgow flight to be run by Flybe instead of Loganair.
Autobiography by Ethel McCallum, 2006
Unbound photocopy of autobiography `Who Knows?` by Ethel MacCallum (nee Woods; b. 1937). Ethel was born in Glasgow. Her unmarried mother left her in a children`s home in Glasgow, from where she was boarded out to a family in Aberdeenshire at the age of 9 months. At 5 years old, she was returned to the home in Glasgow. When the bombs started falling during WWII, she and other children were boarded out to Tiree families in 1943. She was given a safe and loving home by `Aunt` Kate and `Uncle` Hugh Lamont who ran a post office, and went to school at Ruaig. Moved to the mainland after she married Archie McCallum. Her son Duncan has a house on Tiree.
CD `Western Ocean` by Skipinnish, 2014
Music CD by local band, Skipinnish, founded by Angus MacPhail, Ruaig. The cover is signed by members of the band.
Book `McDougall`s Alexandra Readers`, 1900-1910
Child`s school reading book of verses, stories and facts published in 1900-1910, and used by Elsie MacKinnon, Kirkapol, at Ruaig Public School from 1925.
Photograph of Ruaig boys football team, 1928
Sepia photograph of a group of boys posing with a football at Ruaig (School?) in 1928. L-R standing: Donald MacLean, Sliabh, Ruaig; Lachie MacLean, Vaul; Donald MacDonald, Brock; Alfie Walker, Ruaig; Archie MacFadyen, Caoles; John MacFadyen, Caoles. L-R crouched: James Graham, Vaul; Iain MacLean, Caoles, Willie MacIntosh, Caoles; Jim MacLeod; Lachie MacFadyen, Caoles. Off picture on the left is Headmaster Mr MacLeod.
Information about teachers at Ruaig School in the 1930s
Printed email regarding former teachers at Ruaig School including headmaster Robert MacLeod and his son Peter MacLeod, Margaret MacLean, Miss MacFarlane, Mrs John MacLean, Kilmoluaig (formerly Greenock), and Miss Butters. Relates to photograph A32.
Photograph of Duncan MacInnes in 1984
Colour photograph of Duncan MacInnes, Ruaig, in his fishing boat in 1984. (original stored on CD in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
Photograph of Duncan and Margaret MacInnes in 1991
Colour photograph of Duncan and Margaret MacInnes standing in front of their Post Office caravan at Ruaig in August 1991 or August 1992.
Copied pages from the 1792 census of Tiree
Printed photographs of a selection of pages from the original 1792 census of Tiree people held in the archives of Inveraray Castle, including total numbers of inhabitants for each township and lists of inhabitants’ names for Caoles, Salum, Kirkapol and Ruaig. “Total inhabitants [in Tiree] 1881; increase 583” since 1779 census. Subsection “Caoles-Ardeas” photographed during a visit to Inveraray by Glenda Franklin in 2013 (probably contains duplicates). Digital copies stored on An Iodhlann computer.
