MacPhail, Donald, fl1884 (grocer | Quay | Oban | Argyllshire)
Person
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Expression beginning 'Buil an suil, buil an glun', September 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/289
Scope and Contents
Expression collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which reads 'Buil an suil, buil an glun, buil an uilinn Cha be chradh a chniodachadh.'
Dates:
September 1884
Expression beginning 'Ged bha mi sa chuil bha mo shuil air mo chuid', September 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/292
Scope and Contents
Expression which reads 'Ged bha mi sa chuil bha mo shuil air mo chuid' collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].
Dates:
September 1884
Expression for a talkative woman, September 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/288
Scope and Contents
Expression for a talkative woman collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which reads 'Bu tu an gloc air garadh'.
Dates:
September 1884
Expressions connected to labouring, September 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/285
Scope and Contents
Expressions connected to labouring collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] including 'Diluain is the day to begin all work' and that 'amhlaireac' means provoking playfulness
Dates:
September 1884
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1887
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected mostly in An Apainn/Appin and Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. A large proportion of the stories and biographical information about Appin was collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, who was known as Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair. Amongst the material collected from Dòmhnall a' Bhrocair are proverbs, sayings, customs, stories about local figures and families and historic anecdotes. The other main...
Dates:
1883 to 1887
Note about 'Mart', September 1884
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/287
Scope and Contents
Note about 'Mart' collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which reads 'Mart, March or April? The last fortnight in the first and the first in the last'.
Dates:
September 1884
Note on the work 'spagada-glig', September 1884
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/286
Scope and Contents
Note on the word 'spagada-glig' [spagda-gliog] collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] that it was 'App[lied] to Macleans as spagada-glig Chlann an Leathain'.
Dates:
September 1884
Note which reads 'Mar choin ag ol eanaraichTha ainmnean Chlann illeain Eachann! Lachann! Each! Lach! (Lapping up!)', September 1884
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/293
Scope and Contents
Note which reads 'Tha ainmnean Chlann illeain Eachann! Lachann! Each! Lach! (Lapping up!)' collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].
Dates:
September 1884
Proverb which reads 'Chan innis an t iasg a shealg gu ceann bliadhna', September 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/290
Scope and Contents
Proverb which reads 'Chan innis an t iasg[air] a shealg gu ceann bliadhna' collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].
Dates:
September 1884
Saying beginning 'Cha toir thu i mhac tuathanaich', September 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/291
Scope and Contents
Saying beginning 'Cha toir thu i mhac tuathanaich' collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].
Dates:
September 1884