Poem entitled 'Comhairle Aoide do Mhac-an-Toisich', c1875
Scope and Contents
Poem entitled 'Comhairle Aoide do Mhac-an-Toisich' collected from Coinneach Mac Calman or Murchison [Kenneth MacCalman or Murchison], Lochcarron, on 25 May 1865 at Uisge-bhagh [Loch Ros is Cromba and Uisgebhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. The poem is a list of advice on how to live a good life given by Mac an Toisich to Aoide, in a manner similar to a list of proverbs. Aoide asks Mac an Toisich if he followed the advice to which the answer is no but that if he had the advice he would take it now. An annotation has been made in pencil and the text is incomplete.
Dates
- Creation: c1875
Language of Materials
English Gaelic
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
From the Series: 183 folios ; 20 x 23.8cm
Physical Location
5.07
Physical Location
folio 126v, line 18 to folio 128r, line 23
Bibliography
MacPhàrlain, Calum (ed.), Làmh-Sgrìobhainn Mhic Rath (Dundee, 1923), pp. 50-3.
Gillios, Eoin (ed.), Sean Dain, agus Orain Ghaidhealach (Perth, 1786), pp. 296-8.
'Comhairlean an t-Seann Duine', Cuairtear nan Gleann, (28 June, 1842), p. 112.
Stiùbhart, Domhnall Uilleam, ‘Alasdair MacGilleMhìcheil: Fear-Cruinneachaidh Òran ri linn nan 1860an’, Foinn agus Focail: Léachtaí Cholm Cille XL (Maynooth, 2010), p. 119.
Subject
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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