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MacMillan, Mary, c1825-1883 (domestic servant | Lionacuidhe | South Uist)

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Song entitled 'Oran Si - Mhuracha mac Iain' and accompanying story, 27 May 1869 and 16 June 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/55
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Oran Si - Mhuracha mac Iain' collected from Mary MacMillan, Lionacuidhe/Liniquie, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Hi-ri-ri-ri u o, S olc an obair fir turais'. The song is composed of twenty-eight lines, the last of which have been written transversely over part of the preceding lines. The accompanying story states that the song was composed by a fairy woman, who had been promised in marriage to Murchadh mac Iain but he married another woman. His wife died in childbirth...
Dates: 27 May 1869 and 16 June 1869

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