MacInnes, John, c1801-1894
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Story under the heading 'Roin' about MacIogain and accompanying verse, 7 October 1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/30
Scope and Contents
Story under the heading 'Roin' probably collected from John MacInnes, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. telling how a man came from Taisgeir or Hasgeir [Eilean Hasgeir/Haskeir Island] to a wild island and knocked at the door of a big, grey old man. On being asked where he was from and who his family were he responded that he was from the north and his people were Mac Iogain to which the old man recited a verse beginning 'Iogain ga do thug mi bithe dhuit, Im is cais[e]...
Dates:
7 October 1875
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
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