Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869
Scope and Contents
Transciption notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The inside front cover is inscribed in ink with 'Bought at Wadebridge Cornwall Dec[ember] 1 1864 p 1/6 A A Carmichael' and the opposite page has 'A A Carmichael' written on it in pencil. The notebook contains Fenian songs or tales mainly collected in Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, some of which are repeated in full or in part. These include 'Laoidh na Muileartaich', 'Duan an Deirg' and 'A' Bhraoin Chaorain'. There are stories relating to 'Righ Eirinn' [the King of Ireland] such as 'An t-Og Chraobh' which is repeated and a version of 'Torac na Taine' from the Ulster Cycle. There is also an account of part of the conflict at Sheriffmuir and notes from the informant, Alexander MacKenzie, Uisgebhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, about the poet Uilleam Ros/William Ross who wrote a poem about his mother, Mary MacKenzie. There are a number of vocabulary notes scattered throughout the volume, usually accompanying a song or story. Some pages contain text which has been written over with transverse writing and so may be difficult to read.
Dates
- Creation: 1864-1869
Language of Materials
Gaelic English
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
91 folios ; 20 x 16.5 cm
Arrangement
This notebook was used starting from both the back and the front. Items within this series have been listed from folio 1 to folio 69 and then from folio 91 to folio 82. Line numbers will be given for folios 92-55 following the direction of text but folio side will remain unchanged. Folios 70 to 81 are blank.
Physical Location
5.07
Existence and Location of Copies
Microfilm: Mic.Dup.1146/6
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland
- Biography
- Blacksmiths
- Borve Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland
- Bulls
- Cuchulain
- Diarmaid
- Dogs
- Family
- Fenian cycle
- Fenians
- Fionn MacCumhail
- Fishers
- Ireland
- Isle of Barra Inverness-shire Scotland
- Kings and rulers
- Language
- Magic
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Norway
- Oscar
- Placenames
- Poems
- Righ Lochan
- Ross and Cromarty Scotland
- Rìgh Èirinn
- Sheriffmuir, Battle of | Scotland | 1715
- Songs
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Stirlingshire Scotland
- Suidheachan Fhinn Gairloch (parish) Ross and Cromarty Scotland
- Tales
- Tigharry North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Trees
- Uisgebhagh Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland
- Ulster cycle
- Vikings
- Voyages and Travel
- Warriors
- Women
Subject
- MacDonald, Alexander, fl 1861 (Person)
- MacDonald, Lachlan, c1838-1919 (cottar | Kallin | Grimsay | Inverness-shire) (Person)
- MacInnes, Mary, c1815-1903 (domestic servant | Tigharry | North Uist) (Person)
- MacIsaac, Hector, c1797-1878 (Eachann mac Ruaraidh | joiner | Iochdar | South Uist) (Person)
- MacKenzie, Alexander, c1799- (Alasdair MacCoinnich | farmer | Uisgebhagh | Benbecula) (Person)
- MacKenzie, John, fl1866 (Iain MacCoinnich | Uisgebhagh | Benbecula) (Person)
- MacKenzie, Mary, c1771-c1855 (farmer's wife | muse of the poet William Ross | Gairloch | Ross and Cromarty) (Person)
- MacNeil, Alexander, c1787-1881 ([Alastair mac Ruari bhain MacNeill ]; fisherman | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) (Person)
- MacPhee, Donald, 1784-1868 (Person)
- MacQuien, Catherine, c1799-1870 ([Catrina NicCuithein] | Clachan na Luib, North Uist ) (Person)
- MacQuien, Roderick, c1750-c1830 (catechist | Malaclete | North Uist) (Person)
- Morrison, Peter, c1800-1881 (crofter | Balivanich | Benbecula) (Person)
- Ross, William, 1762-1791 (Poet) (Person)
- Clan Donald (Family)
- MacKenzie (Letterewe) (Family)
- MacDonald (of Clanranald) (Family)
Creator
- From the Fonds: Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) (Person)
- From the Fonds: Watson, William John, 1865-1948 (Professor of Celtic) (Person)
Repository Details
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