MacIsaac, Hector, c1797-1878 (Eachann mac Ruaraidh | joiner | Iochdar | South Uist)
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1870 to 1872
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing the stories 'Rocabarrai' and 'Cugarbhad'; some songs and song fragments; customs relating to religious festivals, particularly on the Isle of Barra; stories about the MacNeil of Barra; stories and archaeological notes on Castle Beagram [Caisteal Bheagram, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]; cattle charms and stories about the Lochlannaich [Vikings]. As well as archaeological notes on chapels and cemeteries the majority of the notebook...
Dates:
1870 to 1872
Story about Fenians and accompanying notes from the informant about story-telling, 24 April 1866
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/28
Scope and Contents
Story about Art, a Fenian warrior, collected from Eachann Maciosaig [Hector MacIsaac], Iocar [Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist], who heard it from Ruari Rua [Roderick MacQuien, catechist] and accompanying notes from the informant about story-telling. Hector begins with the sloinneadh [patronymic] of Caramag mac Art. The story then relates how Art married Nighean Rìgh Lochlann but cheated on her. Rìgh Lochlann was very angry so he banished Art overseas. He went travelling...
Dates:
24 April 1866
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1860 to c1866
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112
Scope and Contents
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The majority of the volume has been used but intermittently there are groups of blank folios. Carmichael appears to have written in the book in the 1860s creating sections of different genres at different stages in the volume, with pages left blank in between to fill up appropriately. In about 1875 he has then used some of these blank pages to transcribe notes and stories but has not kept to the genres sections he initially created....
Dates:
1860 to c1866
Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104
Scope and Contents
Transciption notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The inside front cover is inscribed in ink with 'Bought at Wadebridge Cornwall Dec[ember] 1 1864 p 1/6 A A Carmichael' and the opposite page has 'A A Carmichael' written on it in pencil. The notebook contains Fenian songs or tales mainly collected in Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, some of which are repeated in full or in part. These include 'Laoidh na Muileartaich', 'Duan an Deirg' and 'A' Bhraoin Chaorain'....
Dates:
1864-1869
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- Family 3
- Fenian cycle 3
- Fenians 3
- Language 3
- Love 3
- Magic 3
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Songs 3
- Warriors 3
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Blacksmiths 2
- Customs 2
- Death 2
- Diarmaid 2
- Fionn MacCumhail 2
- Ireland 2
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Marriage 2
- Placenames 2
- Poems 2
- Righ Lochan 2
- Vikings 2
- Vocabulary 2
- Voyages and Travel 2
- War 2
- Archaeology 1
- Arthurian romances 1
- Beheading 1
- Beverages 1
- Borve Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Bulls 1
- Caisteal Bheagram South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Carbost Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Catechists 1
- Ceannlangabhat South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cille Pheadair North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clachan na Luib North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clans (Scotland) 1
- Cuchulain 1
- Disputes 1
- Dogs 1
- Fairies 1
- Family History 1
- Fernilea Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Fishers 1
- Food 1
- Fortifications 1
- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies 1
- Geography 1
- Geology 1
- Germany 1
- Giants 1
- Griminish North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Haskeir Island North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Heisker North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hogha Gearraidh North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hospitality 1
- Huisinis Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hunting 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Italy 1
- Kentangaval Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Kings and rulers 1
- Murder 1
- Norway 1
- Oscar 1
- Prophecy 1
- Proverbs 1
- Riddles 1
- Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Rìgh Èirinn 1
- Sayings 1
- Scolpaig North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Scotland 1
- Sea faring 1
- Seals (Animals) 1
- Sheriffmuir, Battle of | Scotland | 1715 1
- Spain 1
- Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stirlingshire Scotland 1
- Storytelling 1
- Suidheachan Fhinn Gairloch (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Talisker Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Tigharry North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Tobha Beag South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Trees 1
- Trien Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uisgebhagh Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Ulster cycle 1
- Vatersay Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Weather 1
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