MacInnes, John, c1801-1894
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Mac Mhuirich' and accompanying song, 29 January 1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/128
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Mac Mhuirich' probably collected from John MacInnes, aged 70 years, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The story tells how MacMhurich is coming back from Rum [Rhum] when 'gille glas' asks if MacMhuirich will take him as far as Uist [Uibhist]. Reluctantly, MacMhuirich agrees exchanging some balast for the gille glas. En route water starts coming in so all are called upon to bale out the vessel but to no avail. The gille glas takes control of the steering...
Dates:
29 January 1875
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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- Subject: Sea faring X
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- Haskeir Island North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Hospitality 2
- Language 2
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Poems 2
- Songs 2
- Vocabulary 2
- Voyages and Travel 2
- Arthurian romances 1
- Beheading 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Carbost Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cille Pheadair North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clachan na Luib North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clans (Scotland) 1
- Customs 1
- Death 1
- Diarmaid 1
- Disputes 1
- Family 1
- Family History 1
- Fenian cycle 1
- Fenians 1
- Fernilea Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Fionn MacCumhail 1
- Food 1
- Fuday Barra (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Giants 1
- Griminish North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Heisker North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hogha Gearraidh North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hunting 1
- Ireland 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Love 1
- Magic 1
- Marriage 1
- Murder 1
- Property 1
- Proverbs 1
- Riddles 1
- Rum Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sayings 1
- Scolpaig North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Seals (Animals) 1
- Talisker Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Trien Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- War 1
- Warriors 1
- Weather 1
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