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MacNeill, Peggie, fl1901

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Hymn for the dying, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/12
Scope and Contents

Hymn for the dying collected from Peggie MacNeill, Gleann/Glen, Barraigh/Isle of Barra beginning 'M anamsa an a laimhs a Righ, A Righ na carach neo. The song is composed of nineteen lines. Peggie states that she heard the prayer from her father John MacNeill and she has taught them to her own children noting 'Both [her parents] had many many old hymns now lost and never heard - not even the name of them.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901

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  • Subject: Hymns X
  • Subject: Gleann Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland X