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Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing field and transcribed material. The notebook is inscribed on the front inside cover with the following: 'Scrap Book MS No1 Alex[ander] Carmichael (of Lismore) Inland Revenue Lochmaddy N[orth] Uist] 1864'. On the recto side of the fly leaf is written 'Angus MacDonald Staoinebrig tale teller' and on the verso side of the fly leaf is written 'Bought at Drew's Saint columb Cornwall this 17 day of Nov[ember] 1864 A. A. Carmichael p2/3'....
Dates:
1864-1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/42
Scope and Contents
Fragment of a song beginning 'Bha thu air bannais a raoir' which is part of the comic song entitled 'Port (Duet)' between Donull Cuimineach and Alasdair Taillear found at CW113/30.
Dates:
c1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/35
Scope and Contents
Fragment of a song beginning 'Cha nileach agam ni sgriob ars Donill Cuimeineach', which is probably part of the comic song entitled 'Port (Duet)' found at CW113/30.
Dates:
c1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/33
Scope and Contents
Fragment of a song beginning 'Cha ro[bh] dad a shibhinn oirre, S ged nach faighinn idir i' which is probably part of the comic song entitled 'Port (Duet)' between Donull Cuimineach and Alasdair Taillear found at CW113/30. This piece of text is written upside down on the page.
Dates:
c1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/34
Scope and Contents
Saying, arising from a man asking his neighbour what was the greatest difficulty he ever suffered, the response being 'Crann gann ganadach an talla tana teann eich gun rian ga tharruin agus bean gun chiall nan ceann.'
Dates:
c1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/30
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Port (Duet)' collected 'From a man (-) at Howgearry N. Uist' [Hogha Gearraidh/Hogharry, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] beginning 'Bha thu eir bannais an raoir/de Ars Do'ull Cuimeineach'. The song is a comic one and is composed of twenty-five lines.
Dates:
1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/41
Scope and Contents
Story under the heading 'Roin' telling how a crew from Howgearraidh [Hogha Gearraidh/Hougharry, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] were hunting on Cousmal [Causmal] and caught a lot of seals. A farmer took a load of them home and put them at the end of the house so that they would stay cold. in the house was a nurse who was looking after a baby and heard a big seal coming to life and saw it kiss a small seal and singing a song beginning 'Spòg Spaidrich òig, Spog mo Chaidhich choir'. The song...
Dates:
c1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/40
Scope and Contents
Story under the heading 'Roin' entitled 'Buala Na Sgeir' telling of a seal-hunting trip to Taisgeir [Eilean Hasgeir/Heisker Island] during which a storm broke and in order to save their boat, the crew all got on board. One boy from Howgearraidh [Hogha Ghearraidh/Hougharry, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] did not manage to get on board and so was left behind. The boy was sad and so he lit a fire in a hidden spot beneath a rock. Many seals returned to the rock and began mourning the seals which...
Dates:
c1875
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112
Scope and Contents
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The majority of the volume has been used but intermittently there are groups of blank folios. Carmichael appears to have written in the book in the 1860s creating sections of different genres at different stages in the volume, with pages left blank in between to fill up appropriately. In about 1875 he has then used some of these blank pages to transcribe notes and stories but has not kept to the genres sections he initially created....
Dates:
1860 to c1866
