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MacPhail, Donald, fl1884 (grocer | Quay | Oban | Argyllshire)

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Story about the Steocairean on Islay, September 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/294
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Story about the Steocairean [cliar sheanachain or itinerant band/sorners] on Islay [Ìle] collected from Donald MacPhail, grocer, Quay, Oban [An t-Òban, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], in which a group demanded and were reluctantly given hospitality in an Islay farm house. Amongst them was a young man learning but who 'could only play the first "car" of the port [tune]'. The head of the steocairean 'ceann-snaodh nan steocairen' recited a poem or song beginning 'Piobaireach[hd] is aran tur'.

Dates: September 1884

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