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MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875

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Song beginning 'A phiurag nan run liura' and accompanying note, 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/21
Scope and Contents Song collected from Ruari mac Dhonil [Roderick MacNeil], aged 94 years, Miulay [MiĆ¹ghlaigh/Mingulay] beginning 'A phiurag nan run liura, Bheil u d chadal fa[tha]st a ruin' [A Phiuthrag na Run or Little Sister of Love]. The song is composed of twenty-two lines, has a number of amendments in pencil and has been scored through in ink, with a note written transversely across it which reads 'Trans[cribed] June 16 1869'. The accompanying note states that this cumha or lament was heard in a dream,...
Dates: 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869

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