Fragment of the song' Ailean Duinn' and accompanying story and biographical note, 8 July 1870 to 10 December 1883
Scope and Contents
Fragment of the song 'Ailean Duinn' collected from Mor Nic Cuinn [Marion MacQueen], aged 79, Tarasaigh/Taransay beginning 'Ail[ein] duinn o hi shiul[ainn] leat, Hi ri ri a bho hi a bho'. The song contains ten lines. The accompanying story explains that Anna nic Dho[mhnuill] ic Iain [Anna Campbell] fell in love with Ailean but the remainder of the text has been deleted and is difficult to make out. Marion stated that her 'great grand father was the last MacCuinn of Oirisey Uist' [Orasaigh, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist]. Written transversely across the text in pencil is 'Now in Taransay Friday evening 8th July 1870' and in ink 'Trans[cribed] B[ook] 3 page 221 10/12 83 A[lexander] C[armichael]' The text on folio 4 has also been scored through in ink.
Dates
- Creation: 8 July 1870 to 10 December 1883
Language of Materials
Gaelic English
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
From the Series: 64 folios ; 19.5 x 23 cm
Physical Location
5.07
Physical Location
folio 3v, line 11 to folio 4r, line 5
- Biography
- Death
- Drowning
- Family History
- Isle of Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
- Laments
- Loss (of people or things)
- Love
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Orasaigh North Uist (parish) Inverness-shire Scotland
- Songs
- Stornoway Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland
- Tales
- Taransay Harris Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
- Campbell, Ann (nian Dhonil ic Iain Oig | composer of the song 'Ailean Duinn') (Person)
- MacQueen, Mor, c1778-1880 (or Marion | nurse | Taransay | Inverness-shire | Scotland) (Person)
- Morrison, Allan, c1730-1768 (Ailean Donn | sea captain | Crosbost | Isle of Lewis) (Person)
- MacQueen (Orasaigh | North Uist) (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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