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Malaclete North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

Proverb beginning 'A bean odhar odhar an dorust a soghail', 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/2
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Proverb beginning 'A bean odhar odhar an dorust a soghail' collected from Mary Stewart, age 76, Malacleit, [Malaclate, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist].

Dates: 1877

Proverb beginning 'Ugh aig eirig leanamh aig aimig is cla[?nn] aig sgalaig', 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/3
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Proverb beginning 'Ugh aig eirig leanamh aig aimig is cla[nn] aig sgalaig' collected from Mary Stewart, age 76, Malacleit, [Malaclate, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist].

Dates: 1877

Riddle for a pregnant woman, 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/12
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Riddle for a pregnant woman beginning 'Craobh sa choille ud shios' probably collected from Mary Stewart, age 76, Malacleit [Malaclate, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] also known as Màiri Bhreac, sean bhanachaig [old dairywoman]. Text scored over with note saying 'Transcribed'.

Dates: 1877

Riddle for the seasons of the year, 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/5
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Riddle for the seasons of the year beginning 'Thainig 4 a nall gun taomain gun luing fear fada fionn fear slatara donn' probably collected from Mary Stewart, age 76, Malacleit [Malaclate, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] also known as Màiri Bhreac, sean bhanachaig [old dairywoman]. Text scored over as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1877

Saying or quote beginning 'Se Dia duileach a rinn e', 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/11
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Saying or quote beginning 'Se Dia duileach a rinn e' probably collected from Mary Stewart, age 76, Malacleit [Malaclate, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] also known as Màiri Bhreac, sean bhanachaig [old dairywoman]. Text scored over with note saying 'Transcribed'.

Dates: 1877

Song beginning 'Air beinn san coille saig a bhaile' and accompanying note, 14 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/95
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Song beginning 'Air beinn san coille saig a bhaile, Mi fo chul do bhreac bhaile' probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist. The song is composed of twenty five lines and contains a number of amendments. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere. The note adds that the singer heard ths song sixty years ago [c1810].

Dates: 14 July 1870

Song beginning 'Ceud sorie Mhaoldonaich', 14 July 1870 and 11 December 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/94
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Song beginning 'Ceud sorie Mhaoldonaich, Cha be 'n Donach b' fhear[r] gleat ort' probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist. The song is composed of eighteen lines and has been scored through in ink with the following written transversely over it 'Transcribed 11/12 83 Book III page 236 A[lexander] C[armichael].'

Dates: 14 July 1870 and 11 December 1873

Song entitled 'Chraobh an Iuir oho', 6 September 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/113
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Song entitled 'Chraobh an Iuir oho' collected from Maireread Dhonullach [Margaret MacDonald], Malcleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist beginning 'Och S Goirt liom na greim an t searagain, Mo chiad lean[abh] bhi gam fhagail'. The song is composed of fifty-eight lines. Some amendment have been made to the text in pencil and it has been scored through in ink wth the following written transversely over the first page of text, 'Transcribed 12/12 1883 Book III page 238.'

Dates: 6 September 1870

Song entitled 'Iollairean us o ro i', 10 February 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/75
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Song entitled 'Iollairean us o ro i' [Am Bròn Binn or The Sweet Sorrow] collected from Margaret MacDonald, aged 79 years, Gearraidh Iain, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uis, beginning 'Thuirt ri Sola ri Ri Fial, Gu h iarr dhuit'. The song is composed of ninety-six lines, some of which are incomplete and some of which have been annotated. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 10 February 1870

Song entitled 'Mac Iain 'ic Sheumais' and accompanying note, 10 February 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/74
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Mac Iain 'ic Sheumais' collected from Mairead Donullach [Margaret MacDonald], aged 79 years, Gearrai iain, Malacleit, N[orth] Uist [Gearraidh Iain, Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] beginning 'Na nead an eoin bhinnich, Bha [th]u innis na Ruai'. The song is composed of fifty lines and has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere. The accompanying note describes Mairead as 'A poor old woman in a hut who had been at service in Vallay [Bhàlaigh] for a long time...
Dates: 10 February 1870